Coffee habits in Paris
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
If you want to know about the how Paris is moving away from the typical cafes and into the new wave of coffee shops, then Tom Clark is your man.
He takes us behind the beans of the coffee world, and admittedly catches us out in our blind taste test.
In the second part of the show, we discuss driving in Paris, which is a lot less pleasant of an experience than a coffee in Coutume!
Find the Coutume coffee shops in Paris via the official site here, and be sure to check out the brand new location on Rue Martel in the tenth.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, Panam. You're listening to the Earful Tower. This is Oliver G on World Radio Paris. |
| 0:05.7 | And today we're here with a special guest, Tom Clark, who's the co-founder of Kutum Cafe. Welcome, Tom. |
| 0:11.0 | Thank you. Great to be here. |
| 0:12.3 | And we're joined by James Vazina, the producer as usual. |
| 0:15.1 | Hi, how are you? How are you? How are you, Tom? |
| 0:18.9 | Great. Happy to be here. |
| 0:20.1 | Hereful Tower with Oliver G. Very well, thanks, and you? I'm all right. How are you, Tom? Great. Happy to be here. |
| 0:21.6 | Here for Tower with Oliver G. |
| 0:24.6 | So today we're going to be talking with you about coffee, coffee and Paris, which is a subject |
| 0:30.6 | that a lot of people are very interested in, a lot of people know about the Paris coffee |
| 0:34.6 | scene. |
| 0:35.6 | You personally, you're the co-founder of Khatoum Cafe. Tell us a little bit |
| 0:38.8 | about the things that you're doing and where you've got your cafes. Yeah, well, we began in 2010 |
| 0:44.2 | when the scene was completely dead in the water. So it was pretty obvious to see there was a |
| 0:48.6 | opportunity to improve the coffee scene. We were probably three actors at the time. CafioTech had opened in |
| 0:56.3 | 2007-8 and we began as a very small roastery. We actually began roasting for a couple of |
| 1:05.9 | restaurants before we opened our cafe and that caught on pretty quick. There was a lot of appreciation for |
| 1:11.7 | our coffee quality, our approach, and we saw that there was a potential to go further. And that's |
| 1:17.6 | exactly what you've done. We have. What are we talking? We're talking Japan. We're talking Geneva. |
| 1:21.9 | Correct. Several in Paris. And the best of all is I googled before the show, I googled |
| 1:26.9 | Best Coffee in Paris. Yours were one of the top hits googled before the show I googled Best Coffee in Paris. Yours |
| 1:28.3 | was one of the top hits Khatoum Cafe. Amazing. Personally, I love the coffee shop. I've been there many |
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