While a new coffee shop seems to spring up every morning, the green wave sweeping down Rue de la Bidassoa isn’t another matcha shop. It’s a mint-colored corner café named after Joy, the daughter of pastry chef Linda Lam, and her partner Varasy (aka Beck), owner of the restaurant where they first met (Baanbeck). Together, they bring their Southeast Asian heritage to a green sandstone counter and Modbar coffee machine, where freshly roasted Laotian coffee beans harvested on the Bolaven Plateau leave even the delicious pandan pastries (chiffon cake like a fruit sando, flaky laminated brioche) green with envy. Enough to bring a little Joy to any sweet tooth! · Anne Audine

Shopping list: The Coco Pandan Cloud (€7), best sipped alongside the aforementioned laminated brioche topped with pandan cream (€6). You’ll need to get there early to snag one as Linda only bakes two batches a day – you have been warned!