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Zinc cafés are the nerve centers of Parisian neighborhoods - and places to find delicious affordable meals, cups of coffee, anf local flavor.
Read the articleDestinations: 1st Arrondissement · 4th Arrondissement (Marais) · 11th Arrondissement (Bastille) · 13th Arrondissement · 9th Arrondissement · 12th Arrondissement
Themes: Affordable · Food + Drink
Inspired by: Paris: Zinc Cafés — by Christopher Petkanas, Published Nov. 2007
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With their belts cinched depressingly below their stomachs, sagging jacket linings, and gaping pants pockets, the functionaries and low-level busin
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If the adorably modest little bar didn’t tell you you were in a zinc, the conversation would ("L’OM a bien joué hier soir, eh?"). Soccer talk is as
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In a freak flood in 1910, the Seine reached the second floor of 4 Rue de Bercy. Three years later a café opened. In response to the flood, the buil
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The "heep-ster" atmosphere at lunch is abso-lutely intolerable (unless you happen to be one, in which case turn on your laptop and start smoking yo
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