Need a French coffee commonly called "cafe au lait" in French

[noel233]

Is anyone has a great receipe on how to make a French Coffee. I have a meeting next week and want to impress my guess with this receipe.
I made a research on internet but all my results was some French Website in whom i didn't understand anything.

 

[eldub]

You are looking for a dark roasted espresso blend to drink with milk and possibly a sweetener. While its normally an espresso, I'm guessing any dark roast with milk would do in a pinch. (Although it prolly wouldn't impress a person from France.)

lw

 

[eldub]

You are looking for a dark roasted espresso blend to drink with milk and possibly a sweetener. While its normally an espresso, I'm guessing any dark roast with milk would do in a pinch. (Although it prolly wouldn't impress a person from France.)

From wikipedia:

Europe

In Europe, “café au lait” stems from the same continental tradition as “café con leche” in Spain, “kawa biała” (“white coffee”) in Poland, “Milchkaffee” (“milk coffee”) in Germany, “koffie verkeerd” (“incorrect coffee”) in The Netherlands, and “café com leite” (“coffee with milk”) in Portugal and Brazil. In northern Europe, café au lait is the name most often used in coffee shops.

At home, café au lait can be prepared from dark coffee and heated milk; in cafés, it has been prepared on espresso machines from espresso and steamed milk ever since these machines became available in the 1940s – thus it refers to the usual[clarification needed] “coffee + milk” combination, depending on the location, not to a specific drink.[citation needed]

“Café au lait” and “caffè latte” are used as contrasting terms, to indicate whether the beverage is served in the “French” or the “Italian” way – the former being in a white porcelain cup or bowl, the latter in a kitchen glass and always made from an espresso machine, whereas “Café au lait” might be espresso or dark coffee based.

American

In many American coffeehouses, a "café au lait" is a drink of strong drip brewed or French pressed coffee, to which steamed milk is added; this contrasts with a "caffè latte", which uses espresso as a base. American café au lait is generally served in a cup, as with brewed coffee, being served in a bowl only at shops which wish to emphasize French tradition.

The term misto (literally, "mixed") is also used to refer to a café au lait, most notably by Starbucks.[1]

New Orleans style

Café au lait in New Orleans has been popularized contemporarily in part by Café du Monde. There, it is made with milk and coffee mixed with chicory, giving it a strong, bitter taste. Unlike the European café style, a New Orleans café au lait is made with scalded milk -- milk warmed over heat to just below boiling -- rather than steamed milk.[2] Inclusion of roasted chicory root as an extender in coffee became common in colonial Louisiana, and eventually was incorporated as a regular coffee additive. The bitterness of the chicory offsets the sweetness of the powdered-sugar-covered beignets...