sidewalk café

noun

variants or British pavement café

: a café that has tables and chairs outside near the street

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Caracas, Venezuela — Jesús Armas sips coffee with his partner in a sidewalk café. — Osmary Hernández, CNN Money, 16 May 2026 Wear them with wide-leg trousers and a crossbody bag in Rome or toss them on with a sundress for a sidewalk café lunch in Paris. — Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2025 Also, there will be live music on the weekends, promotions and experiences from the retailers, hotels, restaurants and cultural institutions, and Longchamp will open a sidewalk café at 645 Fifth Avenue through July 6. — David Moin, Footwear News, 22 May 2025 On the ground, too, the city is a spectacle: sit on any stoop, or at any sidewalk café, and take in the sounds of man and machine, the polychromatics of the auto garages and the shoppy shops, the endless side scroll of cars and foot traffic. — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 18 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for sidewalk café

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