In those days ladies were not admitted to cafés, which were the exclusive domain of men.

Russian officers would sit in French cafes and they'd taunt the Parisian waiters by saying, 'Bistro Bistro Bistro.' 'Bistro,' I continued, was the Russian word for 'quickly' and, as a result, cafes where patrons expect quick service have come to be known as 'bistros.'

These women are Amsterdam s leading tourist attraction (followed by the coffee shops that sell marijuana).

Walking around Jabal Amman, you can notice them sitting in cafes and restaurants around the area.

In summer of 2014, activists in Kiev began organizing flash mobs and actions in Russian restaurants and coffeehouses.

Street demonstrations, elections, and political debate in cafes and on the Internet are flowering as never before.

By including human elements, such as popular cafés or local walking trails, they create comprehensive, useful tools for others, and enhance their understanding of their own community.

All the cafes set their tables outside, bands entertain us up on a stage, kids draw on the street with chalks, and companies fall all over themselves to market their products in the most innovative ways.

In the fall of 2001, when fighting broke out between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance, I could not travel and was stranded at a roadside teahouse for several weeks.

Even the shisha has its permanent presence in coffee shops there, despite the fact that smoking is banned almost everywhere there and all those who break this ban are subjected to punishment.

The riots began after a provocative gunned attack on several cafés at the same time, and spread over other places in Istanbul and also in Ankara in the next days.

In Hurghada (a tourist destination) the governor of the Red Sea issued a decree mandating shutting down all restaurants and coffee shops in the morning during Ramadan.

Meetup, a service founded so that users could find people in their local area who share their interests and affinities and actually have a real world meeting offline in a cafe or a pub or what have you.

Is the present crisis a crisis of capitalism or just a phase of it? This controversy keeps left wing intellectuals, pundits, and politicians busy on television talk shows and in café debates across Europe.

At a dinner in a London restaurant named Granita, in what has since become the best known coffee stage chat in British history, Blair made a proposal to Gordon Brown, his rival for the leadership.

I then explained in English that the Russian army had fought all the way to Paris during the Napoleonic Wars.

I wrote those same kinds of letters that my mother had written me for strangers, and tucked them all throughout the city, dozens and dozens of them. I left them everywhere, in cafes and in libraries, at the U.N., everywhere.

French fries were introduced as a snack in American cafés during the early 19th century, but they did not become popular until large fast food companies such as McDonald's and Burger King incorporated them into their menus during the mid 20th century.

According to Al Rasheed, they were sitting outside a cafe when a CPVPV's car passed by to call people to leave the area to perform evening prayers. He said he argued with the CPVPV member whether sitting at public places at prayer times was illegal.

That's its great claim to fame, and I wanted to show it to you, not because I want to give you the kind of Starbucks tour of historic England, but rather because the English coffeehouse was crucial to the development and spread of one of the great intellectual flowerings of the last 500 years, what we now call the Enlightenment.