Le Cafe des Stagiaires

We founded the original Cafe des Stagiaires in Shanghai in 2011, when we were three interns (stagiaires in French) and best friends who were students of the Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne hospitality school in Switzerland: two young Frenchmen (Max and Ben) and a Belgian (Tom). It started as just a small bar for all of us to hang out together, with simple food and drinks that reminded us of home. But our little bar quickly caught on with fellow interns, expats, and locals alike, and soon it grew into a place we had all dreamt of starting one day. As our little hangout grew, we decided to turn it into a space that reflects the cafe culture we knew back in Europe, where the cafe is the center of social life from morning coffee and breakfast to dinner, drinks, and parties at night. With that in mind, we made Le Cafe des Stagiaires (CS for short) a place that welcomes everyone expat and local, young and old, intern and head of state who appreciates quality, authentic European food and d...