café noir

The extract thus obtained is a perfectly clear, dark fluid, known as café noir, or black coffee.

We ate right through a long table d'hôte dinner, ordering every thing in sight from blue points to café noir.

Some understand café noir to mean equal parts of coffee and brandy with sugar and vanilla to taste.

The coffee base is made as for café noir, and it is served in a tall glass with water to dilute it to one's taste.

When café noir is mixed with an equal quantity of cognac alone it becomes café gloria.