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).
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).
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.
However, Jill Bryan, who runs the Truly Scrumptious cafe with her sister-in-law Julie Bryan, said trade had been "fantastic".
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Around the corner from my last apartment in Seattle sits The 5 Point Cafe, a self-described dive bar in the shadow of the Space Needle.
Started in 1974 by chef Rodrigo Oliveira's father as a cafe for workers in the blue-collar neighborhood of Vila Medeiros, the restaurant today often has a line that wraps around the block.
The terms McDonalds, wings, ham and heartburn were popular in high-obesity areas, while words such as cafe, sushi, brewery and banana were more common in low-obesity areas.
In this World Cafe session hear an interview, plus in-studio performances of Miranda's solo material and a Yoko Ono cover.
In recent years, somebody spray-painted "cafe gentrification" on the sidewalk in front of popular coffee shops.
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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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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.
Last August, Samuel Bail and Abel Samet, the 26-year-old former bankers behind leather accessories brand Troubadour Goods, sat in a roadside cafe in the Tuscan countryside, cold-calling manufacturers.
Prince first played Montreux in 2007, followed by one of his famed after-show parties at 03:00 in a late-night jazz cafe alongside Lake Geneva.
Italian jeweler Bulgari just opened an in-store cafe at which complimentary champagne, tea sandwiches and cappuccino are served.
The scene is an up-market bookstore and cafe in Los Angeles.
Google's push, coupled with the announcement by the 5 Point Cafe in Seattle to pre-emptively ban users of the gadget, has generated a lot of debate and given the campaign a boost, he said.
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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).
So it comes down to this: if half the increase in efficiency demanded by the new CAFE requirements is to come from further improvements in the power-train, then the other half will have to come from reductions in a vehicle's weight.
Undercover police in Hard Rock Cafe T-shirts escorted two people off the dance floor.
So last November they opened the world's largest Internet cafe, an 800-seat beast smack in New York's Times Square.
The Central Valley's premier supergroup, Admiral Radley, brings the band's hazy, dreamily rocking best to this late-summer show at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.
The location of the six-lane 25m pool and cafe, in the grounds of Chilton Trinity School, has been criticised by a campaign group as not being central.
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.
Its Dior maison had just announced that it had suspended John Galliano, its creative director, following his arrest over an alleged anti-Semitic tirade in a Paris cafe.
"Good surgeon, " nods the man sitting next to me in the cafe, appreciating the designer-draped, tanned and toned Barbie doll who is stilt walking past our table.
Across the US, voting took place against a variety of backdrops - from a launderette and an internet cafe in Chicago to a lifeguard station in Los Angeles and car dealership in Columbus, Ohio.
Couche-Tard also has created its own coffee chain in the U.S., called Boca Cafe, and is experimenting with a franchised Panchero's Mexican-grill restaurant situated inside a convenience store in Tallahassee.
In addition to its Red Star Cafe sampling site, the company is unleashing vendors with funky-looking space age backpacks to dispense Heineken beer to fans in the seats.
The 51-year-old was arrested in September after assaulting cafe owner Helen Michael in Finchley High Road.
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In the Dupont Cafe, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, Anne-Sophie Barreteau and her friend Augustin Romieu struggle to decide how more young people might be attracted to the Church.
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