For a hipper setting, wander along the bobo (bourgeois bohemian) paradise of the Canal St Martin, a shop- and cafe-lined canal in the trendy 10th arrondissement, which packs out with picnickers and revellers as soon as the sun shines (and well into the night, too).
Its high-end restaurant and casual pinte (cafe-bistro) are loved by locals and out-of-towners alike.
I'm sure the techies over there in London who put it together congratulate themselves -- over their triple cafe lattes -- for being at the leading edge of the broadband world.
Set in a Milanese palazzo (a grand public building) north of the city centre, the concept is a winning combination of a three-room hotel, art gallery, design boutique and cafe-restaurant, and Sozzani has since replicated its success in Tokyo and Seoul.
It morphs into an Italian-inspired cafe by night, serving crowd-pleasing plates of spaghetti alla vongole (with clams), pints of prawns and heartier dishes like roast rump of lamb.
Finally opened in 2006, the new facility includes a shop, post office, cafe and internet cafe, with one full-time and eight part-time staff.
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Desserts are home runs. l Louie's Westside Cafe--441 Amsterdam Ave.
Fiorello's Roman Cafe -- Fine Italian fare near Lincoln Center.
The reception shares space with the cafe-restaurant, serving coffee and homemade cakes all day, then stepping things up at night when traditional Icelandic ingredients such as lamb, langoustine, reindeer and fish come with a polished contemporary touch.
Setting itself firmly in Mitteleuropa rather than the Balkans, the country has transformed its capital of Ljubljana into a pedestrianised, cafe-kissed oasis, where a collage of refurbished medieval, Baroque and Art Nouveau buildings shine as brightly as the shimmering waters of the Ljubljanica River.
It all started with Rose Bakery -- the bastion of the UK cafe scene in Paris -- which kicked off the trend for casual, homely fare with a British accent back in 2002, when their first branch opened in the south Pigalle area (46 rue des Martyrs, 9e, 01-42-82-12-80).
All were sons of the cafe owner, Mohammed al-Khishali -- killed in a car bombing that ripped apart the cafe in 2007.
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Later, at Detroit airport, the tiniest thing - in a cafe, a man saw another customer's suit-bag flop onto the ground at a nearby table, into the path of oncoming travellers and their wheelie bags.
Fill up on organic blueberries and heirloom tomatoes at the Union Square Greenmarket, then wander past the students and chess-players in Washington Square Park to linger over cappuccino in an old-fashioned Italian pavement cafe on Bleecker Street, or cool off Middle-Eastern style with hummus, mint-studded lemonade and chilled salads at Hummus Place (88 MacDougall St).
Undercover police in Hard Rock Cafe T-shirts escorted two people off the dance floor.
Italian jeweler Bulgari just opened an in-store cafe at which complimentary champagne, tea sandwiches and cappuccino are served.
Sandwich Barge is an organic cafe selling -- you guessed it -- freshly made sandwiches along with soup, cakes and even baby food.
The Parisian-style cafe circuit, backed by an intriguing literary history, is paradise for bookish types and coffee lovers, and the edgy local fashion scene seduces design-minded travellers.
In Nieu Besthesda, stay in Bethesda Tower, a castellated, fairytale tower with a ground-floor cafe, or the Water Tower, a simpler option in a converted water tower.
At around 11 a.m. my friend Sasha, a business consultant aged 25, wrote that he dropped by cafe Jean-Jacques, and we were about to meet at its terrace.
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The shipping-container mall, with bank branches, fashion shops and a two-story cafe, has become a vibrant though temporary new city heart amid the rubble and din of heavy machinery demolishing condemned buildings.
Burma Shave signs pass the time on the way to Seligman, a funny little town that greets travellers with retro motels, loads of gift shops, a road-kill cafe and a squirt of fake mustard.
And if you go across the river to Ham, only a matter of a few minutes walk away from Teddington, there is an island of council housing, cut-off from the commuter trains and upwardly-mobile cafe bars.
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Along one wall of the 12-seat cafe, piles of freshly imported coffee beans from Ethiopia, Guatemala and Indonesia stood next to stacks of decades-old US records, and the trumpets of jazz musicians Chet Baker and Miles Davis resonated from a vinyl turntable.
Lytle says that the years since the last spate of violence have been kind to Beirut, and that a once world-famous cafe and nightlife scene is once again poking its head out in Beirut, and deserves to be reconsidered for its progress.
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The designer's modern, minimal creations furnish the narrow, two-storey cafe, and a few of his works are also on sale, including a ceramic coffee roaster shaped like a gourd that works on an ordinary gas range, should you be inspired to brew your own perfect cup.
The extraordinary sophistication of a basic, black- truffle roasted Clark Farm chicken with caramelized root vegetables and potato-shallot pure is what special restaurant fare is all about: wonderful ingredients, creative and delicious melding of flavors, flawless presentation. l Cafe M -- The Stanhope Hotel, 995 Fifth Ave.
By concentrating on areas where considerable progress is possible (rather than on such neuralgic issues as drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or increased CAFE fuel-efficiency standards), America - and in particular its gas-guzzling transportation sector - could be made significantly less reliant on oil supplied by unstable or hostile regimes.
In recent years, somebody spray-painted "cafe gentrification" on the sidewalk in front of popular coffee shops.
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The goal: to develop a sustainable, pay-what-you-can community cafe concept called Panera Cares.
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