The Corner Cafe is a breakfast favorite and a Newport institution.

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Just around the corner is Cafe Ladro, one of Seattle's best coffee shops.

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It is still possible to walk or ride a bike to a corner store, cafe, gallery or museum.

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If the weather cooperates, plop down on an outdoor bench and do some people-watching, or head around the corner for a bite at Ramsi's Cafe On the World , a funky and vegetarian-friendly restaurant.

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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.

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"Over the last few years, we became poorer and poorer, thousands of people were laid off and we were forgotten by the rest of Italy, left to rot in a corner, " said Pietro Airaudo, 72, at a cafe opposite an Olympic venue.

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