Kafkaf

the 11th arrondissement has a way of rewarding people who actually walk its side streets instead of staying on the main drag. kafkaf sits on rue keller, which runs between bastille and oberkampf, two neighborhoods that have been pulling in a younger, more local crowd for years now. the regulars here aren't casual, they're the kind of people who have strong opinions about where they spend their mornings, and this place has clearly kept them coming back. you don't build that kind of loyalty without doing the fundamentals consistently well. it's not a destination cafe in the tourist-circuit sense, it's somewhere parisians actually choose on a thursday. if you're in the 11th, rue keller in the afternoon is a good place to end up.