Hints and tips:
...The attached Bel Café is a lovely little spot for a takeaway coffee and a pastry, while Reflections, the hotel’s fourth-floor alfresco terrace, serves small plates and craft cocktails alongside a good selection...
...She asks for coffee and says she’s “really jetlagged” – though when I’d entered the sumptuous fitness centre at what I thought an unconscionably early hour for a weekend morning, she was already wrapping...
...While it offers more than twice the square footage of his former space, the move “was a quality-of-life issue, pure and simple”, he tells me over coffee at The Depot Café & Bookstore on Throckmorton Avenue...
...Down in western Sonoma, a quiet investor is in the process of bringing a historic California hotel to new life....
...Café Coffee Day outlets have become popular hang-outs in India, an aspirational nation emerging on the global scene....
...Yet the heart of Sonoma is elegant restraint....
...Debenhams rebranded cappuccino as “frothy coffee” and caffè latte as “really, really milky coffee”, winning headlines for the most patronising publicity stunt in living memory....
...Large, square photos of a towering redwood forest, a yacht at sunset and a carefully crafted cup of coffee adorn the walls of Kevin Systrom’s office....
...Four Barrel Coffee is another local success, with two coffee shops and a stake in The Mill, a café that achieved some notoriety for charging $3.50 for generous slices of toast with butter and honey....
...(Financial Times) Starbucks chief defends China coffee prices: John Culver, the Starbucks executive who oversees its China business, said the price of a Starbucks café latte in China was close to and in...
...The presence of younger residents means that there are cafés, bars and restaurants opening up. It is also, said Rivkin, a safe neighbourhood....
...The most modest café seems to insist on serving at least four courses of great ingredients left mercifully untarted up. Agriturismos proliferate....
...Berliners love their organic produce (indicated by the prefix “bio”) and many smaller coffee shops serve bircher, a delicious Swiss breakfast of muesli soaked in apple juice and served with quark, cheese...
...County; goat milk, yogurt, kefir and cheese from Sonoma’s Redwood Hill Farm....
...After a string of smaller takeovers, Jay hatched a deal to buy the first Hyatt Hotel over a cup of coffee at Fat Eddie’s cafe at Los Angeles airport in 1957, writing his offer of $2.2m on the back of a napkin...
...I ask at The Coffee Bean café. “The newly wed and nearly dead,” is the answer. Montecito has what are known in the US as “estate homes”....
...Mr Parker’s first experience of the hospitality industry was working in the Arsenal Café, his parents’ restaurant in north London....
...Instead of the cheap bars, vegetarian cafés, live music venues and second-hand clothing stores usually associated with student life, the main thoroughfare and “downtown” of Nassau Street has swanky jewellery...
...There wasn’t a reasonable place to have a cup of coffee or buy a loaf of bread,” he says. Now there are many cafés, restaurants and live music venues....
...Since 1925, the Gramercy Park hotel has been known as a clubhouse for café society; Humphrey Bogart was married here and everyone from Babe Ruth to Joe Strummer have drunk at the bar....
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