I love Parisian Cafe's. They act as a meeting point for social and culinary life in Paris
I've never been to Paris! Or anywhere outside of the country for that matter lol. What makes a Parisian cafe any different from a regular cafe?
Parisian café
Parisian cafés serve as a center of social and culinary life in Paris. They have been around since the 17th century, and serve as the meeting place, neighborhood hub, conversation matrix, rendez-vous spot, and networking source, a place to relax or to refuel - the social and political pulse of the city. Parisian cafés show the Parisian way of sitting undisturbed for a couple of hours, watching things happening and people going by.
Typical Paris cafés are not coffee shops. They generally come
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