Specialty Coffee Shops and Parisian Cafes The city’s traditional cafes and bistros are staking out their cultural territory in an emerging duel against highly caffeinated upstarts serving up latte art.

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what was the best place you traveled to for sitting in outdoor cafes and chatting with your companion? these are my favorite travel memories and i’m looking to add places to my list for window shopping in cute stores, grabbing a snack and chatting for a long time, and sitting in beautiful places and taking it in. what were yalls favorite places for this? submitted by /u/cjmmoseley