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also cafe
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as in cabaret
a bar or restaurant offering special nighttime entertainment (as music, dancing, or comedy acts)
the café presents nationally known jazz performers in an intimate setting
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as in tavern
a place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises
a speakeasy that became a fashionable café with the repeal of prohibition
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as in restaurant
a public establishment where meals are served to paying customers for consumption on the premises
they met at a little café in Paris
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Recent Examples of café
The drive to the resort provides a nice overview of Ubud, the closest town to Sayan, which is lined with shops and cafes (and a popular market) just steps from working rice paddies and local Hindu temples and shrines.
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Tim Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2025
Ben and Erin will also lend their renovation and design expertise to bolster several local businesses, including a soda shop, theater, and Cuban cafe.
—Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 30 Jan. 2025
Across the street, the outdoor Vietnam Town shopping center offers shops, cafes and more.
—Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025
In Chengdu, Hua Hua’s face is everywhere – in souvenir shops, cafes, post offices and on billboards.
—Nectar Gan, CNN, 26 Jan. 2025
Having moved from Orange County, California to New York, Buckley began playing guitar and singing cover songs at the Lower East Side cafe Sin-é.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2025
Some ideas are modest, such as building a cafe in a backyard in the North End, while others are much larger — like a plan to add 189 homes to Southeast Boise about a mile southeast of the Boise State University campus.
—Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 21 Jan. 2025
When an older woman entered the Pigalle neighborhood cafe, she was greeted with warmth and relief.
—Vivian Song, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
Several other tenants are expected to open in the district this year, including Standard Beer + Food and the all-day cafe Good Graces.
—Zachery Eanes, Axios, 20 Jan. 2025
Tim Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2025
Ben and Erin will also lend their renovation and design expertise to bolster several local businesses, including a soda shop, theater, and Cuban cafe.
—Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 30 Jan. 2025
Across the street, the outdoor Vietnam Town shopping center offers shops, cafes and more.
—Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025
In Chengdu, Hua Hua’s face is everywhere – in souvenir shops, cafes, post offices and on billboards.
—Nectar Gan, CNN, 26 Jan. 2025
Having moved from Orange County, California to New York, Buckley began playing guitar and singing cover songs at the Lower East Side cafe Sin-é.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2025
Some ideas are modest, such as building a cafe in a backyard in the North End, while others are much larger — like a plan to add 189 homes to Southeast Boise about a mile southeast of the Boise State University campus.
—Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 21 Jan. 2025
When an older woman entered the Pigalle neighborhood cafe, she was greeted with warmth and relief.
—Vivian Song, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
Several other tenants are expected to open in the district this year, including Standard Beer + Food and the all-day cafe Good Graces.
—Zachery Eanes, Axios, 20 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for café
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The album earned Faithfull a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and has built a devoted following over the years, not to mention a later-in-life career as a cabaret performer in such hot spots as New York’s Rainbow Room and Carnegie Hall.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
30 Jan. 2025
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Oh Mary!, the brainchild of Escola, is the deliciously untrue story of the famous First Lady, reimagined as a frustrated, alcoholic cabaret performer in the final days before her husband’s assassination.—
Christopher Barnard,
Vogue,
21 Jan. 2025
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While Quebec City’s winter nightlife can be muted compared to the summer, Pub Saint-Alexandre, an English tavern in Old Quebec, is another bar that offers year-round programming.—
Vjosa Isai,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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Jones recognizes that some gaming groups want to befriend these beasts instead of mounting one on the wall of the tavern as a trophy.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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The hotel's restaurant and bar, Regent, brings guests on a sumptuous journey through France with classics like beef tartare, foie gras, steak frites, and cassoulet, as well as some dishes with a twist — the onion soup, for example, is prepared with duck broth.—
Dobrina Zhekova,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Jan. 2025
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Though many of their journeys have included television shows, restaurants and fanfare, some stories are not as positive and have been tainted by controversy.—
Alexandra Schonfeld,
People.com,
26 Jan. 2025
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Through her high-profile performances in film and on Broadway, James became a prolific and popular nightclub performer.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
4 Feb. 2025
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This shift in perception may also be contributing to the decline of traditional nightclub culture.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
31 Jan. 2025
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The last-chance saloon is where Liverpool’s Darwin Nunez likes to drink.—
Phil Hay,
The Athletic,
20 Jan. 2025
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The mandatory closing of saloons and bars led to the rise of secret nightclubs and liquor stores where liquor flowed free.—
Sam Woodward,
USA TODAY,
17 Jan. 2025
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Guests looking for a more immersive experience can step outside the diner to enjoy the lights while sitting by a campfire.—
Jamie Davis Smith,
USA TODAY,
1 Feb. 2025
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Each ultra-fancy course brings with it a hard truth about the diners, not to mention escalating acts of violence that, by film's end, veer towards the apocalyptic.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
1 Feb. 2025
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If ever there was a sign of how one town had become so devoted to its soccer club, then this was it.—
George Ramsay,
CNN,
30 Jan. 2025
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The best his former club could do, according to a report by the Mets cable television outlet SNY, was a three-year, $70 million offer that would pay Alonso a portion of that money on a deferred basis.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
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And then there’s the Gedling Inn, a pub in a town near Nottingham who promised a free beer for their patrons for every goal Forest scored yesterday afternoon.—
Nick Miller,
The Athletic,
3 Feb. 2025
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Not far from Pete’s is Parasol’s, an Irish pub in the Irish Channel.—
David Hudnall,
Kansas City Star,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Café.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caf%C3%A9. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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