KB Caféshop
What: Kookaboora Café (KB Café ~ Kooka Boora Café ~ KB Cafeshop) Where: 53 rue Trudaine 75009 (9ème arrondissement) Web: - ...
What: Kookaboora Café (KB Café ~ Kooka Boora Café ~ KB Cafeshop)
Web: -
Phone: 01 56 92 12 41
When: Mon-Fri 7:30am-6:30pm; Sat-Sun 9am-6:30pm
Métro: Pigalle (lines 2 and 12); Anvers (line 2); St. Georges (line 12)
Price for a café crème: 3.50E (slightly cheaper for takeaway)
Food: Quite a selection
This was the first café I went to in Paris that finally satisfied my craving for a coffee worth drinking. No one I've shown this place to has been unsatisfied with the coffee. I even brought my French friend's provincial parents here and they were amazed at how good their beverage was. If only they would spread the message around l'Hexagone.
It's in a cool area, just off la rue des Martyrs, which is full of cool little shops and cafés and is the subject of the song Dans la salle du bar-tabac de la rue des Martyrs. Unfortunately, it is also close to Montmartre and all associated tourism, which means that despite the café's numerous seating options, it is often hard to find a place to sit. However, weather permitting, it's always nice to get a takeaway and to walk down the street to Notre-Dame-de-Lorette or across to St. Georges.
It's in a cool area, just off la rue des Martyrs, which is full of cool little shops and cafés and is the subject of the song Dans la salle du bar-tabac de la rue des Martyrs. Unfortunately, it is also close to Montmartre and all associated tourism, which means that despite the café's numerous seating options, it is often hard to find a place to sit. However, weather permitting, it's always nice to get a takeaway and to walk down the street to Notre-Dame-de-Lorette or across to St. Georges.
There are quite a few good food options, including soups, sandwiches, quiches, salads, scones, cakes, tartines, and so forth. They also do a nice range of nice freshly made juices and smoothies. Everything is pretty reasonably priced and the quality of the coffee is supreme. They have free wifi so you don't have to talk to all those pesky humans around you. This does, however, mean that Internet users often station themselves comfortably in an area and don't move for quite some time, reducing seating availability and the comfort of others.
The beans are from Café Lomi, like a great number of such cafés in Paris, which, along with the commitment and know-how of the KB team, means that the quality of the coffee is always guaranteed. The music is always pretty good and the staff is friendly (generally a good mix of Frenchies and Aus-Zealanders), but it can get really crowded which can mean you wait a while before getting your order, and the seating layout is somewhat awkward to navigate through.
The owner is a French guy named Nik, who has travelled the world far and wide and did coffee training in Sydney in 2007 after discovering that there was much more to it than he'd once thought. He worked as a barista in Australia (and found true love in flat whites), and upon returning to France he got seriously involved in the specialty coffee business. This didn't just mean thinking about using good beans, a good machine, fresh milk and putting care into making the drink (that's my usual rant when telling French people why this kind of coffee is so good). He told me he had started thinking more seriously about espresso extraction, bean selection, brewing ratios, amongst other things I don't know anything about, but which mean my money is well spent.
Nik said that it took quite a lot of time, effort and commitment before he was able to find the right location for his café, and finally to be able to bring his plans to fruition. After all the hard work of Nik and his team, he was able to open the coffee shop in November, 2010.
With that in mind, go check it out, it's a cool little café which never fails to provide fantastic coffee.
-Good Coffee In Paris
The owner is a French guy named Nik, who has travelled the world far and wide and did coffee training in Sydney in 2007 after discovering that there was much more to it than he'd once thought. He worked as a barista in Australia (and found true love in flat whites), and upon returning to France he got seriously involved in the specialty coffee business. This didn't just mean thinking about using good beans, a good machine, fresh milk and putting care into making the drink (that's my usual rant when telling French people why this kind of coffee is so good). He told me he had started thinking more seriously about espresso extraction, bean selection, brewing ratios, amongst other things I don't know anything about, but which mean my money is well spent.
Nik said that it took quite a lot of time, effort and commitment before he was able to find the right location for his café, and finally to be able to bring his plans to fruition. After all the hard work of Nik and his team, he was able to open the coffee shop in November, 2010.
With that in mind, go check it out, it's a cool little café which never fails to provide fantastic coffee.
-Good Coffee In Paris
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