How many specialty coffee shops are there in Paris?

Specialty Coffee Paris tracks 647 specialty coffee shops in Paris, 584 of them currently open (August 2026 data).

How much does a flat white cost in Paris?

The median flat white in Paris specialty coffee shops is €5.40, and three shops in four charge €5.50 or less.

What is the best specialty coffee shop in Paris?

Santa Lyna (3rd arrondissement) is the most-reviewed specialty coffee shop in Paris, with more than 18,000 Google reviews at 4.8/5.

Which arrondissement has the most specialty coffee shops in Paris?

The 11th arrondissement is the densest, with 80 specialty coffee shops.

Which espresso machine dominates Paris specialty coffee shops?

The La Marzocco powers 75% of Paris specialty coffee shops with a recorded machine.

Study · August 2026 edition

167 openings in a year: specialty coffee is exploding in Paris

By Sarah Bakhtari and Maxime Dehaye

647 addresses mapped, 167 openings in a year, the flat white at €5.40: every number in Paris specialty coffee.

647addresses mapped

+167openings in 12 months

€5.40median flat white

August 2026 data · 647 shops tracked by Specialty Coffee Paris

The expansion

From 27 to 180 openings a year: the wave reaches all of Paris

Specialty coffee has been through five years of exceptional growth in Paris: annual openings grew nearly sevenfold between 2021 (27) and the 2025 peak (180).

In 2026 the pace eases, but the wave turns genuinely city-wide: 19 arrondissements out of 20 have already welcomed a new specialty café, including neighbourhoods long left out like the 19th or the 17th. Specialty coffee is no longer an inner-city phenomenon, it is settling across the whole city.

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Specialty coffee shops opened per year (shops with a verified opening date). Counted through August 2026, year in progress.

The map

The 11th is the specialty capital, the 13th still has room to grow

Supply is very uneven across neighbourhoods. The 11th dominates the map with 80 addresses: on its own it outweighs the entire southern third of the city combined. Behind it, a very tight leading pack: the 3rd (58), the 9th (58), then the 2nd (51) and the 10th (50). These five arrondissements in the east and centre hold nearly half of Paris specialty coffee.

At the other end, the outskirts stay sparse: the 13th counts only 4 addresses, the 19th 10, the 14th 13. So many neighbourhoods where a good specialty café is still rare, and real room to grow for coffee lovers and future roaster-cafés alike.

Relief map of Paris: the height of each bar is proportional to the number of specialty coffee shops in the arrondissement. The 11th clearly dominates, followed by the 9th, 3rd, 2nd and 10th; the 13th, in the far south, brings up the rear. — Active specialty coffee shops per arrondissement. The height of each bar is proportional to the number of cafés in the arrondissement.

Prices

The flat white costs €5.40 in Paris

The price of a flat white is remarkably stable from one neighbourhood to the next: the median holds at €5.40, and three cafés in four charge €5.50 or less. You have to aim for the smartest addresses to cross the line: only one café in ten charges €6.00 or more.

The gap between the cheapest neighbourhood (the 12th, €4.75) and the priciest (the 8th, €5.50) stays under one euro, a sign of an already mature market where the flat white price reads like a Paris standard.

€5.40Median price

€4.75Lowest median (12th)

75%at €5.50 or less

Beyond the flat white, the menu follows a logical scale: the espresso stays the accessible entry point, milk-based drinks sit around €5, and filter slow coffee (V60) is priced like a tasting in its own right.

Espresso€2.70from €2.50 to €3.00

Cappuccino€5.00from €4.50 to €5.00

Latte€5.30from €5.00 to €5.53

V60€7.00from €6.00 to €8.00

Machines

3 in 4 specialty cafés run a La Marzocco

On the counter, the hierarchy is overwhelming. The Florentine La Marzocco equips 75% of cafés with a recorded machine, a near-monopoly that owes as much to its heritage-workshop reputation as to the Linea, now the visual icon of Paris specialty.

Far behind, a trio of challengers shares what is left: Victoria Arduino, the Venetian with a sculptural line, claims 8%; the American Slayer and the Italian Rocket, more niche and rarer, round out the picture at around 3% each. In Paris, choosing your machine means first choosing a proven standard.

Share of cafés equipped, across the 604 shops with a recorded machine.

The bean

Fève, Coutume and Lomi supply the capital

On the bean side, the landscape is far more open than the machine market: no roaster dominates, and allegiances shift fast. Fève leads the way, served by 40 cafés, carried by a light roast and careful distribution that make it a safe bet among recent openings.

Coutume and Lomi follow at 31 cafés each, ahead of Tanat (30) and Belleville Brûlerie (28), houses that have become references of Paris specialty, Coutume as a historic pioneer.

Behind them, dozens of micro-roasters share the rest: many cafés now roast their own beans or switch suppliers with the seasons, a sign of a maturing market where the bean becomes a real marker of identity.

Belleville Brûlerie28 cafés

For each roaster, the number of cafés serving its bean. Calculated on the 464 cafés whose roaster is known; a single café may work with several roasters.

Quality

A high bar: 81% of cafés are rated 4.5 and up

The standard is high everywhere. The median Google rating reaches 4.70/5, and nearly one Paris specialty café in two clears 4.8.

4.7/5median rating

81%rated 4.5 and up

45%rated 4.8 and up

The experience

What you find (almost) everywhere

A Paris specialty café is no longer just a good espresso. Plant-based milk is now as ordinary as a contactless card, present in nine shops out of ten. Behind it, a base of expectations has settled in: being able to order a filter, sit on a terrace, leave with a bag of beans. So many markers that today separate true specialty from a place that simply roasts well.

91%

Plant-based milkRefusing it has become the exception

62%

Slow coffeeV60, pour-over on request

59%

Outdoor seatingDrink your coffee outside

54%

Beans for saleLeave with your own bag

Of the 660 shops whose services we logged in detail, here's the share that offers each one.

The clean sweep

The cafés holding a perfect 5.0 on Google

Scoring 5/5 with twenty reviews is easy with a good group of friends. Holding it across several hundred is far harder, since a single dissenting voice is enough to nudge the rating down.
Paris counts several perfect-rated addresses: here are the six best, the ones that gather the most reviews while keeping the clean sweep, a sign of rare consistency on the coffee and the welcome alike.

The most striking case is Le Maung (2nd): 5/5 across 880 reviews, a volume almost no establishment survives without a single low rating. France's first Indonesian specialty coffee shop, opened in April 2024, it pairs rare consistency in execution with impeccable hospitality.
Then come Monlam Cafe (18th, 383 reviews), Shigure (9th, 282 reviews), Klover Coffee Showroom (11th), Sezam Café (9th) and Pasa Dena (4th).

Methodology

This study is built on the Specialty Coffee Paris database: 662 specialty coffee addresses recorded across inner Paris, 15 of them permanently closed, leaving 647 shops tracked. The detailed data (prices, machines, roasters, services) for 660 of them were logged by hand.

Ratings and review counts come from Google. Prices are medians across shops with a recorded price. The "momentum" section (openings per year) only counts shops with a verified opening date.

Google review volume is used as a relative popularity signal, not as revenue. Data frozen as of August 2026.

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