Carrot: a London-style tearoom opens in Paris
Franco-British founder Amelia Duverger brings an all-day English breakfast, scones and a Sunday roast in disguise to rue du Dragon this November.
Carrot, a new tearoom in Paris, opens on rue du Dragon in Paris's Saint-Germain-des-Prés this November, bringing an all-day English breakfast, scones and a pun on a Parisian institution to the Left Bank.
The project comes from Amelia Duverger, a Franco-British founder who spent 12 years in London before moving back to Paris, according to Sortiraparis. She describes the tearoom as a way to blend the food cultures of both cities rather than import one wholesale.
The name is a deliberate echo of Carette, the historic Paris tearoom chain with addresses near the Trocadéro and in the Marais. Duverger has swapped two letters: where Carette serves French pastry in a Belle Époque setting, Carrot leans into British classics instead.
A tearoom that treats the English breakfast as an all-day dish, not a brunch favour.
An all-day English breakfast
The menu centres on an English breakfast served from open to close, not just at brunch hours, alongside scones with clotted cream and homemade jam that Sortiraparis singles out as the house specialty.
Lunch is a short, changing menu built around the season and the kitchen's mood, a format that keeps the operation lean next to a full British gastropub list. Weekends bring a dedicated tea time and the Carrot Roast, the tearoom's take on a Sunday roast.
To drink, the early favourite is the London Fog, an Earl Grey tea steamed with milk and vanilla that the founder expects to become Carrot's signature order, the kind of single drink a new address can build a reputation on.
Portobello Road on the Left Bank
The room borrows its look from the cafés of Portobello Road in Notting Hill: deep burgundy wood panelling, powder-blue walls, striped banquettes, rattan furniture and vintage china, with a small terrace for spring and summer.
Saint-Germain-des-Prés has carried the city's café culture since Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots made the neighbourhood synonymous with literary Paris. Carrot arrives in a season crowded with openings, including Bouillon sur Seine's delayed debut in Boulogne-Billancourt and Le Poisson Volant's restaurant-turned-club concept.
No fixed opening date has been confirmed beyond "November", and prices have yet to be posted. For an address built on scones and a pun, that soft launch fits the room's unhurried mood.
