Le Petit Saint Martin is one of the many neighbourhood cafés that give the streets of the 10th arrondissement around the Canal Saint-Martin their everyday character. It is the sort of place that serves breakfast, lunch, an afternoon drink and a late meal, while the pavement outside becomes part of the café from morning until evening.
Waiting tables: Paris waiters have long been part of the city’s public life. Before cafés adopted modern payment systems, a waiter was expected to keep a running total in his head for several tables at once, remember regular customers’ usual orders and navigate a busy terrace without interrupting the flow of the street, no easy task!
“A Paris terrace is never just somewhere to sit, it’s a way of observing the city at its own pace.”
Part of the “On the Terraces of Paris” series
Each Thursday we take a seat on one of Paris’s terraces, those open-air rooms where the city’s everyday life unfolds in full view.
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