Café Cliché

Café Cliché is a French-owned café and bistro in Laureles, and it reads like a bohemian Paris café picked up and set down in Medellín. The rooms are mismatched: sociable tables at the front where the place hums, and quiet corners at the back when you would rather be left alone with a coffee. Which room you sit in largely decides what kind of visit you have.

Food is the draw here as much as the coffee. The café is run by a French owner and the kitchen shows it — French plates alongside international ones, and a proper brunch. On weekdays there is a menú del día, well-priced and served until 3pm, which is the easy answer if you want a full meal without deliberating over it.

Wednesdays are when Cliché becomes something more than a café. Wednesday evenings bring cultural programming — film screenings, exhibitions, workshops — the sort of thing you would expect of a café in Paris and rarely find over a plate of brunch in Laureles.