a shop · LACafé du Monde
also: Cafe du Monde
An open-air coffee stand on Decatur Street in the French Quarter, selling café au lait cut with chicory and beignets three to an order under powdered sugar.
When they’re open
Nobody has published this one's days where we could read them. That is a gap in this directory, not a closed door — call ahead, and see the Sunday question.
The story Cited · wp-caf-du-monde
The French brought coffee to the Gulf Coast and the Mississippi around 1700. During the Civil War, New Orleans Creoles stretched short coffee with chicory, which adds a chocolate note to café au lait, and the practice stayed.
Today Cited · wp-caf-du-monde
A landmark, and busy enough that the queue is part of the experience people describe.
The particulars
| state | LA |
|---|---|
| status | open |
| dough | choux |
| styles | The beignet stand |
| region | Louisiana |
| address | 800 Decatur Street, New Orleans, LA · Orleans Parish County Cited · wp-caf-du-monde |
| where | 29.9576, -90.0619 (street) · OpenStreetMap · open in maps Harvested · osm-nominatim |
| confidence | high · updated 2026-09-16 |
Near here
Crow-flies miles; the road is always longer. The finder sorts every shop in the country from wherever you're standing.
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Who it runs with
Where we got it
- Café du Monde — Wikipedia · link
Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.