Beyond scrambled eggs and avocado toast, MAISON LE TE offers a Franco-Taiwanese brunch with gua bao, tea eggs, matcha pancakes, and bubble tea. Rue Saint-Maur, daily.
Gua bao, marbled tea eggs, matcha pancakes. Not yet another New York brunch.
One of the rare brunches where a matcha boba pairs with a savory dish.
Brunch at 2pm, 6pm, or after the movies. Daily 11am-10:30pm.
The classic Paris brunch often follows the same grammar: scrambled or benedict eggs, avocado toast, maple pancake, fresh juice, filter coffee. Good but lacking surprise after ten years. MAISON LE TE at 136 rue Saint-Maur offers a real alternative: a Franco-Taiwanese brunch that changes the grammar (bao bread instead of muffin, marbled tea egg instead of scrambled, matcha latte instead of filter coffee).
Slow-braised pork gua bao: Taiwanese steamed bun with pork simmered 5h in soy-anise-cinnamon sauce. Marbled tea eggs: steeped for several hours in black tea, soy sauce, and spices, cracked shell giving a marble pattern. Matcha pancakes: French batter, Taiwanese matcha whisked to order, served with seasonal fresh fruit. Matcha bubble tea as drink: few Paris brunches offer this option.
Another particularity: brunch served without a fixed slot, 11am-10:30pm daily. No need to rush before 2pm. You can brunch mid-afternoon, evening after the movies, or late Sunday night. Rare in Paris, where most addresses still enforce strict brunch hours.
Paris brunch lovers tired of classic addresses. Young parents needing flexible slots. Asian cuisine lovers wanting brunch without giving up Taiwanese flavors. Friend groups wanting to offer something different for a birthday or reunion.
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Booking recommended on weekends via the contact page.
The Franco-Taiwanese menu (gua bao, tea eggs, matcha) and the slot-free format daily.
Both. All dishes are a la carte, from gua bao to matcha pancake.
No fixed formula: the menu lets you build freely.
11am-10:30pm daily.