Welcome to Cafe de Noir! We are a small coffee shop that believes in the simple and crazy idea that coffee can be used to create communities. To learn more about us, check out our About page or stop by and see for yourself!

About

Cafe de Noir is a small shop based on Brookline Boulevard in Pittsburgh, PA, and we have this crazy notion that coffee can be used to create communities. The idea originated with the previous shop, Cannon Coffee, and continues to live on in the heart and motto of Cafe de Noir.

Our idea is that coffee shops provide the perfect venue for people to gather as strangers and leave as friends. This isn’t exactly a new idea, however. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, England and France became flooded with coffee shops that brought people together to engage in both casual and philosophical discussion. The modern coffee shop doesn’t seem to encourage that sort of atmosphere, and instead encourages one of secluded laptops and study groups with snobby baristas. We want to change that.

The first thing we do is provide excellent quality coffee, tea, and food without the snobby attitude or excessive prices. Second, is we actually engage our customers on a casual and regular basis. Once you enter our doors, you become a part of our community. The third thing we do is provide a venue for artists, musicians, writers, and thinkers. We sell local art and give 80% of the sell to the artist. We host open mic nights the second Thursday of each month to provide a venue for local musicians, and an evening of readings for writers every third Thursday of the month. But lastly and most uniquely, we host an evening of discussion in the style of the French Salons every fourth Thursday of the month so that the many thinkers that call Pittsburgh home can have a regular place to meet and engage their ideas with the minds of others.

We hope that you will come and join our little community to grab a cup of coffee, sit on our balcony, and make some new friends and learn some new things.

Contact

This is a contact page with some basic contact information and a contact form.