sidewalk café

noun

variants or British pavement café

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

Examples of sidewalk café in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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

The local city councilmember, who must sign off on each application, can ask the entire city council to vote on a particularly problematic sidewalk café (though not on its roadway cousin). — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 Aug. 2024

Around 940 restaurants have applied for sidewalk café set-ups, 500 for roadway dining and nearly 500 have applied for both, as of Friday afternoon. — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2024

The film’s comedy is built from a series of infinitesimal touches and chance intrusions, as when Édouard, espying Charles in the street, leaps from his seat at a sidewalk café and jostles a waiter bearing drinks. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024