Café entertainment in Europe
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Peach Tree
A cosy combination of timber-framed antiquity and comfortable modern style, this café-bar also has streetside seating opposite the abbey and can be relied upon for all-day food and drinks.
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Aroma
Baku’s best combination of comfort, fashionable décor and great coffee. Pod lamps and electro-retro feel downstairs, street-view sofa seats above. It’s also a wi-fi hot spot.
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Caffè Letterario
A literary café stuffed with books, comics and magazines; it hosts an interesting programme of lectures, book signings and concerts. All you have to do to become a member is donate a book.
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Caffè Latino
Up on the ramparts overlooking the port, this chic bar is a summer classic. Kick back on the grey rattan chairs, order from the ample menu, and listen to the breeze rattle the masts below you.
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Caffè degli Specchi
This veritable hall of mirrors (specchi) first opened its doors back in 1839 and, despite some modern updates, has been feeding the addictions of Triestine coffee-quaffers ever since.
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Ernesto in Totale
Run by a real-deal Neapolitan, this Italian cafe, restaurant and bar also attracts scores of people with its baristi, extensive menu (including Neapolitan-style pizzas), and well-mixed drinks.
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Karchma Stavravilenskaja
In the Old Town along the riverfront, this café has a breezy summer terrace and a low-key interior. Its food is good, if overpriced, but it's the beer and coffee that most head here for.
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Kafka
Quiet café serving healthy cakes, quiches and sweet-and-sour pancakes (3zł to 10zł). Choose from its massive selection of secondhand books and kick back on its low couches or outdoor seating.
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Kofein
The ‘exoticism’ at this trendy African-themed café overdoes its appreciation of the female form. You’ll find it takes its coffee seriously and turns out a good brew.
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Mecca
This great little café serves up superb espressos and a range of specialty teas and coffees. Directly opposite, the Mecca shop is great for stocking up on caffeine-addict paraphernalia.
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Caffè Alvino
At the time of research this Lecce institution was closed - sold to the jewellers next door. But we've been reliably informed that it will reopen as a café some time in the near future.
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Theo
Not just a café and not just a chic footwear boutique but both. You can sip a decent coffee and nibble on Parisian Poilâne bread while checking out the soft-leather shoes for sale.
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Hargreaves Coffee Shop
Easily the pick of the bunch of the Spring Gardens cafés, on the 1st floor of a renovated Edwardian showroom. It has good cakes served in a room lined with historic china and porcelain.
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I Tre Galli
Spacious and rustic, this is a fabulous spot for a drink any time, but most people come for the gourmet aperitivi snacks served on a buzzing pavement terrace. Meals cost about €15.
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Simplicissimus
An unpretentious café-bar with interesting old photos on the walls, rock on the PR system and waiters who've been known to get sloshed. Several other places to drink are right nearby.
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Sowohl Als Auch
A little less frilly than Anna Blume, situated on the other corner, but the same fancy cakes (try the walnut-mascarpone or raspberry-chocolate) and great breakfasts, served until midnight.
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Raekelder
Another winner for the ambience, the stone floors, old beamed ceiling and antique sitting room of the town hall basement is a fine place for coffee. The food and service is less enticing.
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Ocean Deck
Plonked in the middle of a duck pond, the terrace of this American café-bar makes a delightful people-watching perch in the summer. However, its small interior is rather lacklustre.
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Café de Paris
Adjacent to the opulent Monte Carlo Casino, this is a fabulous spot for a decadent – if grossly overpriced – coffee or aperitif whilst limo-spotting from the sprawling 300-seat terrace.
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Jaxx
Perfect for late-night nibbles, Jaxx is a funky café that morphs into a party haunt by night. Munch Snaax open sandwiches (tasty little morsels at €1 a piece) on the terrace.
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Skonis ir Kvapas
Now this is how a café should look: original frescoes on the ceiling and walls, working fireplace and a worn wooden floor. Vilnius' best tea list comes presented on a mock hand fan.
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Näköala Kahvio
If you like your morning coffee with a stunning view, and aren’t superstitious by nature, Näköala Kahvio, a cafe on the 13th floor of the town hall, is the place to be.
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Dioskouri
A landmark café in Plaka sitting virtually over the railway line, the tables under a huge plane tree give it a traditional village feel. It’s popular with students for mezedhes and ouzo.
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Bulldog Cafe
It's easy to sit for hours outside, watching the activity on this busy pedestrian street. At night, it's a good place to meet your evening playmates. For some people it's the only place.
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Public
More comfy sofa seating is hidden away in the back room behind the sparse front bar area. Excellent espressos are comparatively inexpensive (AZN2) and there’s an AZN6 lunch deal.
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