Coffee
If you’re a café regular, you don’t even have to speak: You need only appear and your ideal coffee will be set before you. “You know your customers’ preferences like an haute couture seamstress,” says Alain. For the rest of us, here is what to ask for.
Café/Café Express/Café Normal: A shot of coffee, akin to an espresso. It’s also called “un petit café,” but, as Alain says, to sound like a true Parisian, lightly suppress the first syllable, so that it becomes “p’tit café.”
Café Noisette: A shot of coffee with a dash of foamed milk, similar to a macchiato.
Café Serré: The strongest shot of coffee, made with very little water.
Café Trois-Quart: A lighter coffee, the cup is filled to the three-quarter mark.
Café Allongé: The weakest coffee, water is run through the grounds twice. Also called café américain.
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