Le Dome Cafe - Paris

The legendary Café du Dôme in Montparnasse, Paris; the intellectual capital of Paris, known as the Anglo-American café. I'm a big fan of the American literary brigade based in Paris in the aftermath of the first world war. Guys like Henry Miller, Ernest Hemingway and Elliot Paul were regulars, I am told F. Scott Fitzgerald was not a Dômier despite residing in Paris during the jazz age although he collaborated with Hemingway at the time.

My favourite author of the period was William Somerset Maugham, an English playwright, short story author and novelist - a regular at the Café du Dôme after he served in the Red cross ambulance corps during the first world war.

Amazingly, the café is still trading, while plenty of changes have been made; surprisingly, it doesn't look all that different from the photographs of old. Sure Café du Dôme is probably still trading a little on past glories, a trip to Paris surprised me at how popular the café still is. The establishment was full and there was not a chance of getting a table for even a quick coffee - great stuff.