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

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

There was a collective gasp from everyone watching as Dugan crashed through the yellow and white awning that stretched over the sidewalk café and landed like a sack of wet cement on the pavement. —Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 Aug. 2023

The application fee will be $1,050 per four-year period for a sidewalk café (tables, umbrellas, open air, easily removable) or a roadway café (off the curb, in a shelter). —Curbed, 19 May 2023