Another former Beatles hangout is the lesser known Casbah Coffee Club, situated three-and-a-half miles northeast of the city centre in an old coal cellar once owned by Mona Best, mother of early Beatles drummer, Pete Best.

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Express, the Coffee Club and Burger King.

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They were actually really nice -- they offered me food and coffee and the club manager gave me a shirt, which was nice.

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Coffee bar by day, popular pre-club venue by night, Riki Tik, a North Laine bar has been pumping out cocktails and funky breaks for years.

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In addition to selling its own recharging station, Nokia said the US's Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf chain and Virgin Atlantic's Heathrow airport club lounge would fit equipment allowing visitors to power up the Lumia handsets, offering it fresh opportunities to promote the feature.

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It may not have been like 30 years ago, when the cool kids who would shape the future met each other Monday nights at the Pyramid Club on Avenue A or, later, sobering up with blintzes and coffee at the Kiev as dawn broke.

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At a recent speech to the Detroit Economic Club in Michigan, Schultz outlined some of his plans to expand what each of his coffee houses could offer, including in-store music downloads, DVDs of the company's recently released film project Akeelah and the Bee, and books.

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