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123 mon école is almost ten years old!
Our schools are international, welcoming, and caring.
Since 2012, when the school was founded, nearly one thousand children have attended 123 mon école at one of our three sites in Paris and Asnières-sur-Seine.
123 mon école plans to open two new schools in September 2021, one in Bois-Colombes and one in Boulogne-Billancourt.

It’s le gôuter hour in Paris, and the warm scent of cookies baking is distracting me from Moko Hirayama’s story. The former lawyer is now a formidable pastry chef and co-owner of cafe and bakeshop Mokonuts with her partner, chef Omar Koreitem. Her discretely decadent creations are surprising and a little unexpected, much like Mokonuts itself. Combining elements of a coffee shop and a restaurant, the low-key space adapts to the day’s clientele, from breakfast and lunch to late-afternoon indulg...

Peter Sevic is enthusiastic about coffee. But not just any coffee. “I’m the guy looking for something special,” he tells me while twirling a glass of yellow bourbon coffee-flower cold brew. “I think Slovenia needs specialty coffee, and it’s time that people knew what good coffee looks like.” Sevic is a jack-of-all-trades at Stow Speciality Coffee, a Ljubljana-based micro-roaster with several cafes in the capital and nearby cities: he’s head barista, oversees coffee training and consulting, an...

At eight in the morning, tiny Cafe Čokl is already pleasantly cramped. Customers rub elbows on high stools, chattering away in Slovenian. One asks for an “Americano, prosim”; owner Tine Čokl slides him a shot accompanied by a tiny silver pitcher of hot water. Here, what may be standard practice elsewhere is a gentle way of educating customers. “They don’t understand basic espresso anatomy,” he says, referring to what Slovenians typically expect of an Americano—an improbably long shot served i...

It’s hard to believe O Coffeeshop has only been open for two months. Nearly everyone who walks into the Left Bank cafe run by Tim Teyssier and Matthew Sloane beams a knowing “Bonjour, ça va?” at the owners, as if to old friends. That’s the beauty of the 15th arrondissement: it’s a little village tucked within the pulsing Paris metropole. And O Coffeeshop is right at home on Rue de Lourmel, flanked by small cheese shops, butchers, bakers, and produce vendors, some of whom provide ingredients f...

I live on the north side of Montmartre, just below the “cool” line where fashion boutiques and small-plate restaurants compete for pricey real estate. I like my neighborhood because it’s still affordable enough to have a rich mix of people, businesses, and especially, food. You can get an amazing pizza, a hearty os à moelle (bone marrow), a savory maafe (West African peanut soup), and now, at last, you can get a slice of homemade lemon cake and an early morning coffee at Café Pimpin.
Since op...

Snuggled between Italy, Croatia, Austria, Hungary, and the Adriatic Sea, Slovenia is a surprising little country. The northwest corner ripples with the snow-dusted peaks of the Julian Alps, while barely 100 miles south, the country’s 29 miles of coastline cling to the Gulf of Trieste; vineyards stipple fertile valleys girdled by evergreen forests, and fairy-tale castles float on crystalline lakes. And all of it fits within a 100-by-150-mile patch of land.
You can walk Ljubljana, the tiny capi...

There’s a cafe scene in Cédric Klapisch’s cult coming-of-age film Le Péril Jeune where we see five high school friends hunkered around a table, razzing each other. At one point, the bartender shouts that they’d better order something or get out, to which Romain Duris’ character replies, “Give us a coffee with five straws.”
“We thought it was the perfect name,” says Egemen Tavsanci, co-founder of 5 Pailles (Five Straws) cafe, which opened in January in Paris’s 10th arrondissement. “One cafe, f...

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The streets around the Saint Lazare train station churn with a current of hurried office workers, wandering tourists, delivery trucks, and city buses. In the shadow of the austere Église de la Sainte-Trinité church, Hanoi Corner is a little haven of calm welcoming passersby for lunch or an afternoon cup of tea.
The cafe, specializing in Vietnamese filter coffee, Vietnamese tea, and street food staples like banh mi sandwiches, is Nguyen Nam and Nguyen Linh’s love letter to their Vietnamese-...

When Holybelly opened in 2013 at 19 Rue Lucien Sampaix, it set a new standard in quality for the age-old union of food and coffee in Paris. The 30-seat establishment came out firing, serving world-class third wave coffee alongside neo-diner breakfasts of fluffy pancakes and egg and sides until noon, when the stunning seasonal lunch specials kicked in.
The concept puzzled Parisians at first. Was it a cafe? Or perhaps a restaurant? The chefs bustled about in gleaming whites, after all. “I think...