Café Royal
Also café royale
Black coffee finished at the table with a sugar cube soaked in cognac, set alight on a spoon and stirred in.
With spiritsServed hotFrom France
- Volume
- 135ml4.6 US fl oz
- Espresso
- 0shots
- Caffeine
- 48mgderived, USDA FDC
- Glass
- Cappuccino cup180 ml
The build
Watch it made, step by step- Hot black coffee120 ml89%
- Spirit15 ml11%
- Volume
- 135ml
- Caffeine
- 48mg
- Espresso
- 0shots
Scales every component together, so the ratio holds; caffeine scales with the coffee.
Black coffee with a flamed, cognac-soaked sugar cube stirred in.
Caffeine
Derivedin a 135 ml café royal
USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee volume in components, assuming 1 g per ml. FDC 171890 (Beverages, coffee, brewed, prepared with tap water) 40.0 mg/100 g x 120 ml.
USDA FoodData Central record 171890 · read 2026-10-29
A derived figure: the reference food's caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee in this build. Real cups vary with the coffee, the dose and the shot.
Variants by country
No regional variants recorded.
History
Popular accountNo allowed-source record; the flamed sugar cube is a popular account.
France (popular account).
Parts of this story are repeated widely but were not confirmed against a source this atlas accepts. They are kept as the story people tell, not as fact.
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