café noir

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Expect café noir and café au lait with madeleines and quiche, plus pain perdu with strawberry, lime and basil, and fregola sarda risotto with octopus, from a menu that changes frequently.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2019

Come; Fate shall present you with another course, one more step towards your café noir and—happiness.

From Flames by Hichens, Robert Smythe

As a stock for soup he is good; but in Scotland it is better not to say what the origin of the stock is till your friends are at their café noir.

From Scotch Loch-Fishing by Senior, William

We hastened to descend towards it, after the usual small cup of café noir and a piece of bread.

From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Forester, Thomas

Some understand café noir to mean equal parts of coffee and brandy with sugar and vanilla to taste.

From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)