variants also cafe

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for café
Noun
  • Meanwhile, the second half folds in the aesthetics of Vegas strip cabarets with eerie melodies from movie scores like Danny Elfman’s Nightmare Before Christmas.
    Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The Musical follows an American man in Paris at the turn of the 20th century, Christian, who falls in love with a performer at the titular cabaret club named Satine.
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That usually meant going to taverns and bars, and enduring long travel days by horse and buggy.
    Ayana Archie, NPR, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Over the years, it has been used by different factories, a tavern and GFiber.
    Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • When Catalina goes into the kitchen to refill her calabash, Frances grabs the box of Thompson paperbacks and makes a run for Ray at the restaurant.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Equal-weight consumer discretionary has been under a bit of pressure, with restaurant and travel names weakening, and is now clearly underperforming the broad market on a one-year basis.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Known as the Harlem of the West, the Douglas Hotel was complete with the Creole Palace nightclub where Black performers in the 1930s and ’40s could perform during the years of segregation.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The Musical, stepping into the role of Satine, the glittering nightclub star and tragic heroine made famous by Nicole Kidman on screen.
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • An 1856 drawing of a popular San Francisco saloon known as the Cobweb Palace depicts a crowd of humans joined by two dogs, a pig, a parrot, and six monkeys.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Main Street, running from the riverfront to Seventh Street, was lined with restaurants, saloons, offices, and shops.
    Sarah Biegelsen, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Higher beef prices, which have eased somewhat recently, weighed on shares as investors worry about whether Texas Roadhouse will pass on the additional costs to diners or absorb them.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Restaurant menus adapt to diners’ evolving palates.
    Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Some offer free parking to casino rewards club members at certain status levels.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 28 Sep. 2025
  • For a guy like Bryan, who was still in the Navy four years ago and was playing small clubs as late as 2022, crazy indeed.
    Joel Hoard, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Until a few years ago Jamie Webster was an electrician who played a few gigs in pubs to help pay for the costs of following Liverpool across Europe.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • After a long day down the shafts, mineworkers would gather at rowdy makeshift pubs called shebeens, and play famo.
    Kate Bartlett, NPR, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Café.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caf%C3%A9. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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