Great restaurants and small cafes serve fresh local seafood, reindeer and elk meat, cloudberries and mushrooms, as well as many different ethnic cuisines.

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During lunchtime on sunny days, crowds of students grab food at the many small cafes, restaurants or bistros by Metro Saint Michel or Vavin and picnic in the Jardin du Luxembourg.

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There are many small cafes and restaurants on the way, but Marvelosa, just past the Chain bridge and the entrance to the tunnel on the right, serves excellent cakes and is unusually friendly for Budapest.

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Alight at Dalkey, where higgledy-piggledy streets lined with small boutiques, cafes and shops climb into the surroundings.

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Many small shops and cafes in the city centre do not open on a Sunday and some of those which do say the lack of free parking is driving trade to the Metro Centre in Gateshead instead.

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Though the Hong Kong native works for a small chain of Japanese cafes by day, bikes are his true love, nurtured during a decade-long stint in the US. Upon repatriation in 1993, he brought his passion back to his hometown.

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There is a swimming pool, a small outdoor zoo, several cafes and hotels, and the island is a favourite sunbathing place for the city inhabitants.

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Airbnb also Tuesday launched an offline and small business service called Local Lounges, a partnership with local cafes in San Francisco.

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The classiest (and cosiest) address for business travellers in the DF is currently Las Alcobas, a small seven-storey, 35-room hotel nestled among the chic boutiques and leafy European-style outdoor cafes along Avenida Masaryk in the upscale colonia (neighbourhood) of Polanco.

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