If you need to find me in Paris, there are a few places you should check.
If it’s nice out, I’m probably chilling in the grass at Georges Brassens Park with a good book – most recently White Oleander. If it’s kind of overcast or drizzling, I’ll probably be at the American Library, checking out a mountain of new hardcovers. But if you can’t find me there, I’m undoubtedly at Season Take Away.
Before my little sister came to Paris, if I was looking for a place to sit and work and enjoy a cup of coffee, I would generally go straight to a PMU, which is the sort of grubby little café where you can get a serviceable espresso for 2 euro and where the only other patrons are older men betting on the horse races. I liked the atmosphere there: no one bugged me, and I could sit and work for as long as I liked, provided I had my phone with me to create a portable modem, that is.
Little Sister, however, turned me on to the newer anglo coffee shops slowly cropping up throughout the city: places with American filter coffee, free WiFi, and great background music. And to top it all off, they also tend to have an awesome selection of lunch and snack options.
Some of these places get ultra crowded, and since most of them are on the right bank, a good half hour away from me, I’m wary about making the journey and finding that there’s no seat for me. But Season Takeaway is the coffeeshop outpost of a larger restaurant, making it my ideal destination: if there aren’t any seats available in the little shop, I just wait next door until there are.
Luckily, I come here often enough that there’s pretty much always a spot for me, where I can order a kale caesar salad, a cup of filter coffee, and, later in the day, look up to see that one of the waiters has hand-delivered a plate of fresh cantaloupe or, more often than not, an assortment of gluten-free chocolate and avocado cakes.
It’s nice to have a place that knows your cake order.
Season Takeaway -Â 8 Rue Dupetit-Thouars, 75003