Menu
From the oven
All our puff pastries (feuilletés) are served with a fresh mixed salad.
What’s a puff pastry ?
- Goat’s cheese
- Salmon with sorrel
- Creamy chicken (open face pastry)
- Four cheeses (Comté, Ricotta, Emmental & Mozzarella)
Eggs
Eggs à la coque is a French tradition, and one that we love. The eggs are soft boiled and served in a special cup, a coquetier, then, cracking the shell off the top, eaten with a spoon and by dipping bread (mouillettes) in to soak up the yokes. Yum!
- Le Coque (2 eggs, strips of bread, salted butter)
- The Vegetarian (2 eggs, strips of bread, salted butter, served with a mixed salad)
- The Farmer (2 eggs, strips of bread, salted butter, served with a mixed salad & smoked ham)
- The Norwegian (2 eggs, strips of bread, salted butter, served with a mixed salad & smoked salmon)
Mixed salads
Salad ingredients may vary a bit with each season and depending on who’s in the kitchen, but they are generally a hardy mix of greens with tomato, cucumber, cheese, a mix of seeds, dried cranberries, and your choice of sauce: olive oil & Balsamic vinegar and olive oil & lemon.
- The Vegetarian
- The Farmer (with smoked ham)
- The Norwegian (with smoked salmon)
Brunch
Brunch is served on the weekends from 11-4pm.
We only take reservations during the week, so come in early!
- A hot beverage of your choice (tea, double espresso, or hot chocolate)
- A glass of orange juice
- 2 eggs à la coque, served with bread for dunking
- Fresh baked brioche
- Your choice of puff pastry, served with a small mixed salad
Meals are served from 12-2pm Tuesday-Friday, and from 11-4pm Saturdays & Sundays*. Desserts are available anytime!
*Please be aware that alcohol is only served with meals.
Your tea room looks great, we’ve just come back from nine lovely days in Paris (March 30th-April 8th), but didn’t know about it. We’re back for a week in early/mid July & will definitely visit you then.
Actually, we don’t know the 13th at all, although we come to Paris three times a year, we always stay in the 8th, and think we’re adventurous to visit the 16th (Passy, amazing chinese food at Mandarin Passy), 3rd (Rue de Rossiers, incredible falafel) & 4th (the Etam store near the Hotel D’ville which has a surprisingly good cafe on the top floor, with good views, wifi & ok tea).
Our expedition this time was to go beyond the Bastille, into the 11th, for Thai brunch at the Blue Elephant (which was amazingly identical to the Sunday brunch at the Blue Elephant in Fulham, London).
We’re from Southern England, but live in Mallorca. Paris is (apart from London of course, got to be loyal/patriotic) our favourite city.
Best of luck with your new business, see you in 88 days or so (not that I’ve got a countdown ticking away on my desktop, for when we’re next in Paris; or anything!)
A & S xx
My friends, Jennifer and Philippe Poirier, own the Residence Les Gobelins Hotel at 9 rue des Gobelins in the 13th. Jennifer told me about a blog site that mentioned their hotel (materfamiliasknits.blogspot.com) and your knitting cafe. I just came back from a week at the hotel and I’m sorry to say I missed out on visiting your shop. It looks very inviting and the menu sounds delicious. Being an avid knitter and a lover of all things French, I will definitely be visiting on my next trip. I live in Chicago and there are several fine yarn shops but, sadly, none of them have the inviting atmosphere of yours.
In response to Andrew and Samantha, I would like to say that you haven’t seen Paris if you haven’t visited the wonderful areas in the 13th (especially the Mouffetard marketplace). For me it’s an area where one can see and experience more of the everyday lives of Parisians and less of the tourists. The Residence Les Gobelins Hotel is in the budget category, but in my opinion it’s **** in every other respect. Wonderful, warm people who own it, extremely clean and charming and very central to getting anywhere else in Paris one might like to visit.
Hi, Your shop looks absolutely lovely. We’ll be in Paris the end of May and though we have never been in the 13th, we are definetly going to visit your shop. My wife Maggie is an absolute tea lover and she is going to love your shop. We’re from Florida. I’m American and Maggie is German. We’ll be in Paris for 6 days only as we must visit friends and family in Germany, but it’s been 9 long years since we’ve been in Paris and we are getting more anxious by the moment.
Look forward to seeing you and visiting your shop as well as the 13th.
Ciao,
John & Maggie
Bonjour! We enjoyed a fantastic lunch at your lovely cafe last week. I am still thinking of that delicious mustard vinaigrette on Le Croque Fermier. The salad was so fresh and full of flavor! I’ve already recommended L’Oisive The to several friends heading to Paris soon, and I can’t wait to come back and visit!
A bientot,
Monique & Tim (a/k/a Cookies To Go – which were divine, by the way!)