Bonjour Katrina

Café Mericourt serves good specialty coffee, including filtered coffee {pour over} which is apparently a sign that experts are serving your cup a joe.  It's a fairly roomy cafe with plenty of greenery to satisfy the bohemian heart, but their main draw is their groovy brunch menu.

Le Peloton Café is located close to the Seine with plenty of shopping around.  The most distinctive aspect of this shop is their English-ness. The menu is in English and everyone (employees and customers alike) seem to speak English.  If you're tired of racking your brain to put together a simple French sentence then this is your haven, my friend.

They serve coutume coffee (as seen HERE) and pull their shots on a Marzocco (if that matters to you). The coffee is so good. I haven't tried them yet, but their waffles are well touted on instagram. Make sure you bring cash.

This coffee shop has a dark, romantic feel to it.  A great date spot, I would think.  But not with your 3ish year old and baby...and the stroller and the large diaper bag (and on this special day: the giant balloon + happy meal).  My husband and I really need to invest in a camel.

We started out Columbus Day going to my son's music class and then headed straight to Kittery, Maine. We weren't sure what we were going to do once we got there, but we knew we wanted good coffee. After a quick search on Yelp, we decided to go to Lil's Cafe because they serve Tandem coffee (one our favorite's).






After enjoying a cup of coffee and one (or three) of their cruller's, we headed over to a park in Portsmouth, NH- just over the bridge.

Yesterday we visited Curio Coffee in Cambridge. In a short 4 months they've built up a reputation for great coffee and addictive waffles- the only food item on their menu. Their space is small (maybe seating for 15?), but a really pleasant place to hang out. Every wall says, "take a picture of me!"  And who am I to refuse a beautiful wall.