variants
or less commonly cafe
often attributive
1
: a usually small and informal establishment serving various refreshments (such as coffee)
broadly
: restaurant
2
: barroom
corporate average fuel economy
Examples of café in a Sentence
Noun
the café presents nationally known jazz performers in an intimate setting
a speakeasy that became a fashionable café with the repeal of prohibition
Recent Examples on the Web
Dyana Lederman, Travel + Leisure, 7 June 2026
Inside, Garcia-Jahrman said Good Girl will take shape as a colorful, maximalist bookstore and cafe with dark green walls, vintage furniture and shelves dedicated entirely to romance.
—Jessica Alvarado Gamez, Denver Post, 7 June 2026
After starting in the Netherlands with a single event in 2009, Repair Cafe has grown into a global nonprofit with more than 59,000 members, some 4,000 cafes and close to 850,000 items fixed a year.
—ABC News, 7 June 2026
For example, the Grande Colonial contained a pharmacy called Putnams that had a cafe offering small bites and ice cream.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2026
Explore the shops, dine in the sidewalk cafes, and relax in the lush tropical gardens.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 6 June 2026
The building maintains an employee cafe and River Room conference center, where Caribou Coffee hosts a regional meeting on a regular basis.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 6 June 2026
Mickey Todiwala Opening the cafe proved more difficult than Yeung expected.
—Mike Winters
mickey Todiwala, CNBC, 4 June 2026
The center includes the ticketed museum, a civic center with a cafe and restaurant, an athletic center, a Chicago Public Library branch and more.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 4 June 2026
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Noun
Wildland Bost and Resnick’s inviting, communal, all-day cafe is housed in a large industrial space that was once a boogie board factory.
—Dyana Lederman, Travel + Leisure, 7 June 2026
Inside, Garcia-Jahrman said Good Girl will take shape as a colorful, maximalist bookstore and cafe with dark green walls, vintage furniture and shelves dedicated entirely to romance.
—Jessica Alvarado Gamez, Denver Post, 7 June 2026
After starting in the Netherlands with a single event in 2009, Repair Cafe has grown into a global nonprofit with more than 59,000 members, some 4,000 cafes and close to 850,000 items fixed a year.
—ABC News, 7 June 2026
For example, the Grande Colonial contained a pharmacy called Putnams that had a cafe offering small bites and ice cream.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2026
Explore the shops, dine in the sidewalk cafes, and relax in the lush tropical gardens.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 6 June 2026
The building maintains an employee cafe and River Room conference center, where Caribou Coffee hosts a regional meeting on a regular basis.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 6 June 2026
Mickey Todiwala Opening the cafe proved more difficult than Yeung expected.
—Mike Winters
mickey Todiwala, CNBC, 4 June 2026
The center includes the ticketed museum, a civic center with a cafe and restaurant, an athletic center, a Chicago Public Library branch and more.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 4 June 2026
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“Café.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/caf%C3%A9. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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