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Le Café du 19M is a French café on Place Skanderbeg in Paris, set at the entrance of the 19M art gallery, and Le Fooding listed it in 2026. Lunch runs alongside an all-day coffee shop, so the room changes shape through the day.
The lunch menu follows seasonal vegetables and changes with deliveries, with long-fermented artisan pizzas as a constant. The Margherita Tokyo style pairs a pinched crust and fior di latte with shiso leaves and toasted sesame oil. Starters and desserts sit between 6 and 10 euros, and mains between 15 and 25 euros.
The Le Fooding writer, who ate lunch here, singled out a trio of eggs mimosa, eggplant with ras el hanout and fromage frais, and crisp fish and chips with a sharp tartare sauce. Dessert combined summer berries, yogurt, Breton shortbread and rosemary oil.
On weekends the menu shifts to izakaya-style plates, XL pizzas, natural wines, Kirin beer and sake by the glass. Gallery visitors, neighbourhood regulars and families fill the tables. The building is the work of Rudy Ricciotti, and its brutalist concrete gives the room a sober backdrop for the food.
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