Café Shin | Uchronia

TO TAKE OVER THE ‘MARAIS’

Three years after the opening of the first Café Shin and a few months after the Palais-Royal location, Shin Eun Jung and Julien Sebbag are writing a new chapter at 115 rue de Turenne. This third location is conceived as a blend of the first two: a café where people come as much for lunch as to linger into the afternoon.

Since their beginnings, the two friends have been cultivating a very Korean way of experiencing the café in Paris. People meet there after lunch, share a dessert, order a second coffee in the afternoon, and often end up staying longer than planned. More than just a break, the café becomes a moment that stretches on.

A GRADUAL DISCOVERY

From the street, the facade is divided. In the center is the entrance to the residential building. To the right is the entrance to Café Shin.

That’s where you enter. A large arch marks the transition between the common area and the counter. As you pass through it, you discover a room nearly four meters high, lit by skylights. The counter comes into view, along with the high tables and bench seating. The space is more open than in previous locations, bathed in light from the skylights.

You order, take a seat, and linger for a while. In the center, a curved mirrored pendant light captures the light and accentuates the space. On one side, an unfinished floor evokes the spirit of the Petites Écuries; on the other, the brickwork echoes the Palais-Royal. It’s as if the first two Café Shin locations had come together in a single space. Then you step outside.

To the left of the façade, another entrance leads directly into a small room separate from the café. The space is very simple, divided into two sections: a white wall on one side, and walls entirely covered in Palet tiles on the other. This is where the screening room is located.

A NEW WAY TO STAY

At Café Shin, the experience doesn’t end at the counter. At SHIN I, the jjimjilbang offered a more intimate retreat. At the Palais-Royal, the listening room and the photo booth enhanced the venue’s social atmosphere. On Rue de Turenne, a new chapter unfolds.

After picking up your order : whether it’s a Goguma Latte, Heukijma with black sesame, Dalgona, or bingsu to share, you don’t leave right away. Some stay in the main room, while others enjoy the terrace or head to the chill area. A large blue platform invites you to settle in wherever you like, facing a white wall dedicated to screenings.

Conceived by Shin, the programming blends Korean films, archival footage, landscapes, and more free-form sequences—selected much like one would curate an atmosphere. Whether sitting, lying down, alone, or in groups, everyone makes the space their own at their own pace.

Building on the first two locations, SHIN III introduces a more contemplative atmosphere, where images gently take over from sound.

A COMMON LANGUAGE

Ever since the first Café Shin opened, the place has evolved as a conversation between two worlds. Shin and Julien don’t “put their stamp” on a place in the traditional sense. They shape it together, through the details of everyday life: the recipes, the customs, the rhythms. One comes from pastry making and a culture of precise technique; the other from intuitive cooking, built on sharing and encounters.

Their meeting in 2020 sparked a series of collaborations that first took shape elsewhere : in restaurants or pop-up menus, such as at Créatures, Forest, or Micho, before finding a more stable home at Café Shin. This venue has become the common thread of a shared language: that of taste and time spent together.

From the outset, this vision has been developed in partnership with Uchronia, under the direction of Julien Sebban. The three venues were thus conceived as part of a shared continuity, where cuisine and architecture evolve together, without any hierarchy between functions and spaces. The café is not merely a concept here, but a way of inhabiting a space and allowing it to evolve from one location to the next.

Café Shin
47 rue des Petites Ecuries, Paris 10