Paris's specialty coffee boom: Can it last?
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
- Address: 22 Rue de la Folie Méricourt, 75011 Paris
- Find Cafe Mericourt on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/cafemericourt/
- Explore the website here: https://www.cafemericourt.com/menu
The music in this episode is from Pres Maxson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. My name is Oliver G. This is the Earful Tower coming at you from Paris. And today we're going to be |
| 0:06.0 | talking about something you may have noticed if you've been in Paris recently. There has been a veritable |
| 0:11.7 | explosion on the coffee scene. What do I mean by coffee? Because there's been cafes in Paris forever. |
| 0:17.8 | I mean specifically specialty coffee. The kind of place where you go and get a |
| 0:22.3 | flat white and sit and maybe have a nice piece of cake, do a bit of people watching, that kind of |
| 0:28.4 | thing. You know what I'm talking about. I've talked about on the show before. And the guest today is |
| 0:32.9 | Guy Griffin, who you've certainly heard on the show before. He runs Cafe Merico in the 11th, and he ran Cafe OberConf before that, also in the 11th. |
| 0:43.0 | So without further ado, let's hear what Guy has to say. |
| 0:46.5 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:53.5 | Guy Griffin, when I say friend of the show, I mean, you've been around since... |
| 1:00.1 | When was the walk? |
| 1:01.0 | I can tell you, it's before you opened... |
| 1:03.4 | Oh yeah, so it was like 2017, 2016? |
| 1:07.2 | That's... Is that when you opened Miracle? |
| 1:09.0 | I got the keys like beginning of 2017, because we announced, didn't we? We announced that. Yeah. So that's, I'm going to start, I know this is uncomfortable. I'm going to start with a thank you and a compliment. Because, uh, you like even just that, you took a gamble on that. We did a live walk. What was that eight years ago? Do you know people only just sort of |
| 1:27.8 | starting doing live YouTube stuff a lot more now? I really took a gamble there and you, well, you did. I was like, let's do a walk. I don't think we even knew each other that well. Not that well. And I was like, let's walk down from your current cafe Obikov to the new place you haven't opened and answer questions from earful viewers around the world. |
| 1:44.7 | And you're like, yeah, let's do it. |
| 1:45.7 | Well, I mean, it wasn't much of a risk |
| 1:47.1 | because you could actually sense that, to the new place you haven't opened and answer questions from earful viewers around the world. |
| 1:44.7 | And you're like, yeah, let's do it. |
| 1:45.7 | Well, I mean, it wasn't much of a risk because you could actually sense that you're going to kill it. I thought you're going to say because no one would be watching. But then, well, thank you. But then since then, since then we've done a bunch of other stuff together. And you've been really supportive of all the projects that I've done. So I start on a sincere thank you. |
| 1:59.4 | I appreciate it. |
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