From the windows of the tea room upstairs, eyes dive on the fountain and on the Luxembourg garden’ gates, a delight for Parisians who find here all the “rive gauche“ spirit.

Writers, editors and senators come as neighbours to savour a delicate and light lunch : mixed fried season mushrooms to start, a hot Andaludsian “tartine” to continue, a “douceur gourmande” to extend.

Time slowly flies in this haven, where modernity subtly interprets the aesthetic codes of the past.