Saint Barista Coffee

paris has been renegotiating its relationship with coffee for about fifteen years now, slowly trading the watery café allongé at a zinc bar for something more considered. that shift has concentrated in certain pockets of the city, and the 11th arrondissement is one of them. saint barista coffee, on rue popincourt, sits in the middle of that. the street itself runs through a quiet residential stretch between oberkampf and bastille, the kind of block where you're passing boulangeries and hardware shops rather than tourist infrastructure. the regulars here are clearly committed, returning with the frequency of people who've decided this is their place. if you're in the neighbourhood on a weekday morning, the flat white is a reasonable place to start.