The Local France

Parisians wake up to coffee-fuelled urban mushroom magic

Sun, 24 Feb 2019 10:04:02 +0100

From a container wafts the sweetly pungent odour of coffee grounds which, far from being discarded as waste, are being lucratively recycled to produce oyster mushrooms.

Is coffee becoming the new wine for Parisians?

Fri, 23 Dec 2016 15:08:01 +0100

Forget tasteless espressos on a Paris terrace. The capital is taking the coffee trend seriously. But for how long?

Lavazza offers to buy France's Carte Noire

Thu, 23 Jul 2015 11:55:02 +0200

Italy's premier coffee brand Lavazza has offered to buy French coffee label, Carte Noire, for a figure believed to be around €800 million.

Man asked for coffee - airline gave him drain cleaner

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:58:00 +0100

A French court on Friday ordered Air France to pay €146,000 ($186,000) to compensate a passenger who said he was served poisoned coffee on a domestic flight in 2006.