I really want to visit a Parisian cafe!  How about you?
I'd love to visit one too!  I hear that they are a center of social and culinary life in Paris.
I bet there is a lit of history surrounding the cafes, right?
Yes, they have been around since the 17th century!  They are used as a meeting place, neighborhood hub, conversation matrix, and many other things! 
Our the US cafes based on the ones in Paris?
I really don't know!  I do know that a typical Parisian cafe is not a coffee shop!
Really!  What do they serve if not coffee?
with a complete kitchen offering a restaurant menu with meals for any time of the day, a full bar and even a wine selection. Among the drinks customarily served are the "grande crème" (large cup of white coffee), wine by the glass, beer ("un demi", half a pint, or "une pression", a glass of draught beer), "un pastis" (made with aniseed flavour spirit), and "un espresso" (a small cup of black coffee).
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