In other hip cosmopolitan capitals like New York, London, and Copenhagen they’ve known how to do it for years: Spend your entire Sunday recuperating from Saturday’s party while indulging in the city’s cool brunch spots around town. Within the last year or two, more cafés have started to pop up in Paris with careful consideration for the menu as well as the interior, inviting lazy, hungover Parisians and trendy girls inside for a lovely Sunday chill.
Merce and the Muse
Run by New Yorker Merce Muse, Merce and the Muse is a little treasure hidden in the northern Marais where you will instantly feel the ambiance of being in a cafe in Williamsburg or Soho. You can either choose to hide out for a couple of hours in the well designed interior of the café, or put your Ray-Bans on and chill on the benches outside.  Merce herself was trained by The Coffee Collective, a world class coffee shop in Copenhagen, so if coffee is your cure for a bad Sunday headache you are sure to be in the right place. Your completely homemade brunch is composed of fresh creative salads, dark homemade bread with fresh salmon and cheese, egg and freshly squeezed orange juice. It is the perfect place to go for an enjoyable Sunday in Paris.
1 bis rue Dupuis, 75003 Paris. 09.53.14.53.04.
Open Tuesday-Saturday from 11h-19h and Sunday from 11h-5.30h
Metro Temple, Republique, ou Filles du Calvaire
Merce & Muse
Rose Bakery
For brunch lovers Rose Bakery is becoming somewhat of an institution, which also makes it a busy spot on Sundays–testing your patience if you still feel dizzy from last night. But once you’re seated it will have been worth the wait. Located in the middle of le Marais, it is the perfect break from your Sunday shopping in the area and if your French is not too good there is no need to panic, as you will probably be greeted by an English-speaking waitress with a cute Scandinavian accent. The food is made from scratch and you can combine your menu with a full brunch of coffee, juice, bread, granola, pie, and cake if you feel like going all out.
30 Rue Debelleyme 75003 Paris. 01 49 96 54 01
Metro Filles du Calvaire
Open Tuesday-Sunday from 10h-18h
Rose Bakery
Claus
We just recommended this newly opened place and the peaceful interior and atmosphere give you room to completely enjoy your brunch – and your headache from Saturday’s party.
14 rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau
75001 Paris
Metro: Louvre-Rivoli.
Open weekdays from 7h30-18h and weekends from 9h30-17h
Claus
Le Bal café
This is the perfect place to go if haven’t bothered taking a shower or removing the mascara under your eyes after last night–as the café that belongs to art space Le Bal is hidden away behind Place de Clichy, you probably won’t run into the girl you embarrassed yourself in front of the night before. It is the perfect place for getting away from all the rush and maybe combining your brunch with a visit to the current exposition if you’re up for a cultural Sunday. Quality and originality is a guarantee when you go here as the people serving you brunch are behind Rose Bakery as well – so if you want avoid the queue at Rose but still have the food, you should maybe consider going here.
6 impasse de la defense, 75018 Paris 01.44.70.75.51
Metro: Place de Clichy
Open Wednesday-Saturday from 10h-23h and Sunday from 10h-19h
Bottleshop
If you are one of those people who think that the healthy approach to the brunch tradition is way too overrated, then there is a good reason why Bottleshop has been included on the list. Here you can find a much more traditional approach to the brunch in the English sense of the word with eggs, bacon, and black coffee. They only serve brunch on the weekends, making it a perfect post-party hangout spot, and maybe you will be lucky enough to run into the person you made out with in the very same place the night before.
5, rue Trousseau 75011 Paris 01.43.14.28.04
Metro: Ledru-Rollin
Open Daily from 11.30h-2.00h
Text by Sarah Høilund