Le Procope

In 1686, the Sicilian Francesco Procopio had the idea to open an establishment near Saint-Germain-des-Prés where people could try coffee, which had only been introduced twenty years earlier in the Paris court.

He decorated it luxuriously with mirrors, chandeliers, gilded objects and in order to attract high society. Voltaire and Rousseau were a usual coterie, in what was the first literary cafe. According to the "legend of coffee", Diderot wrote his Encyclopedia within its walls and Benjamin Franklin composed the Constitution of the United States here as well.

The Cordeliers met here with Danton and Marat as leading figures and gained a revolutionary focus.

El Procope is one of the most traditional restaurants you can visit while your are in Paris. There’s menu is full with local food and they even have a tank where you can pick the lobster you will eat. The place was a great amount of history items and it takes you to the past pf France.