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Terres De Café
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Batignolles
France
,
Paris
In Batignolles, this long-running boutique, renovated in 2025, wraps a warm wood bar and back counter in soft lighting and simple, neighbourhood-friendly furnishings. The room feels like a local specialty canteen where regulars cycle through all day for espresso and filter from the Paris roastery, giving the 17th a calm but clearly coffee-obsessed anchor.
Beaumarchais
France
,
Paris
On boulevard Beaumarchais, this two-level boutique feels like a modern living room for coffee, with a long bar at street level and a quieter lounge space tucked behind. The focus is on Terres de Café’s full lineup of single origins and blends served as espresso and filter, making it an easy place to sit down and explore their idea of French specialty coffee.
Blancs-Manteaux
France
,
Paris
Blancs-Manteaux is the historic Marais shop, a compact, wood-and-tile room that feels like a small reference library for the brand. Behind the bar, baristas pour a steady flow of carefully dialled-in espresso and filter from their French-roasted range, turning this corner into a quiet classic for serious coffee in the neighbourhood.
Bourbon le Château
France
,
Paris
In Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Bourbon le Château reads like a small left-bank salon, with a compact counter, soft lighting and closely spaced tables that make the space feel intimate even when it is full. Here baristas serve the brand’s grand-cru style coffees as expressive espresso and clean filter for a mix of locals and flâneurs, so the shop feels more like a quiet wine bar translated into the language of coffee.
Bourdonnais
France
,
Paris
The Bourdonnais shop sits on a quiet corner near the Eiffel Tower, a tiny modern café where a few tables, a narrow bar and a short line of sidewalk seats feel almost like an antechamber to the monument. Inside, the atmosphere is cozy and conversational, with a La Marzocco on the counter and a short menu of carefully extracted espresso and filter that gives sightseers a rare chance at a truly focused cup in this part of town.
Capucines
France
,
Paris
Terres de Café Capucines is a bright, compact bar just off the Opéra district, where a clean counter and shelves of beans give the room a precise, city-centre feel. Here their own roasts run as tight espresso and neat filter for office workers and shoppers, with baristas on hand to guide you through the brand’s terroir-driven range.
Daguerre
France
,
Paris
On a pedestrian market street in the 14th, Daguerre is a bright, street-level boutique where the front counter, wall shelving and a small bench area feel very much part of the daily food-shopping corridor. The atmosphere is warm but slightly sharp-edged in its attention to detail, with Margaux and Pierre’s team pulling precise espresso and filter for neighbours who treat this as both a friendly hangout and a decidedly serious coffee stop.
Grand Sablon
Belgium
,
Brussels
On Grand Sablon square, the Brussels boutique occupies a former brasserie, refitted with a frugal, natural-materials design that mixes stone, wood and discreet tech touches around a large central counter. A sunny terrace spills onto the square, while upstairs a quieter lounge with soft seating stretches the visit out, and throughout the building Terres de Café’s coffees are poured as espresso and filter with the same careful, French-style precision as in Paris.
Lille
France
,
Lille
In Vieux-Lille, Terres de Café’s first boutique outside Île-de-France spreads out behind a long counter into a host table and a cosy corner with club armchairs, before opening onto a quiet terrace facing the park. The layout feels closer to a small salon than a classic Parisian bar, and the full range of the roastery’s coffees is served as espresso and filter to regulars who treat the place as both neighbourhood café and northern showroom for the brand.
Mokdong
South Korea
,
Seoul
Mokdong is Terres de Café’s sky-level outpost in the Hyundai complex, reached by elevator into a high-floor café where large windows, pale finishes and a carefully framed bar make it feel more like a modern glasshouse lounge than a standard mall shop. Here the focus is firmly on the cup, with espresso and filter service built on the same carefully sourced coffees, giving western Seoul a bright, slightly elevated perch from which to discover the brand.
Rambuteau
France
,
Paris
Rambuteau is the little sister to Blancs-Manteaux, a slim, street-facing bar between the Marais and the Centre Pompidou that leans into quick, everyday service. Guests grab espresso, milk drinks and simple filter built on the same specialty range, making this one of the most convenient spots in the area for a proper coffee on the way to or from the metro.
Saint-Honoré
France
,
Paris
Saint-Honoré is a slim, elongated café just off the Louvre area, where a linear counter, minimal décor and neatly stacked bags along the wall give the room a tidy, slightly hushed feel despite the tourist traffic outside. Loïc and his team run a wide range of single origins and blends as espresso and filter, gently steering both regulars and visitors toward the right cup in a space that feels like a compact tasting bar for the city centre.
Tiquetonne
France
,
Paris
Tiquetonne is a larger, corner bar between the Montorgueil streets and Étienne-Marcel, with generous counters, big windows and a neat terrace that picks up the buzz of the surrounding shops. Inside, the space feels more expansive and urban than the older boutiques, built for constant flow, and the baristas move quickly through espresso and filter orders while still leaving room for a bit of chat about origins and profiles.
Versailles
France
,
Versailles
The Versailles boutique is tucked into the old streets just behind the château, a small, warm room with a straightforward counter, a few tables and a short line of terrace seats that open toward the town. Inside, Daniel and his team pour the same carefully roasted coffees as tidy espresso and filter, so the stop reads as a relaxed, everyday local bar that happens to sit next to one of Europe’s grandest landmarks.
Yangjae
South Korea
,
Seoul
Terres de Café Yangjae, the first Asian branch, sits along the Yangjaecheon stream in a bright, glass-fronted space where light wood, plants and a deep counter echo the calm of the greenway outside. Inside, the mood is relaxed and contemporary, with Korean baristas brewing the French roastery’s coffees as clean espresso and slow coffee for guests who treat the café as a quiet pause between the park and the nearby city streets.














