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

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On the ground, too, the city is a spectacle: sit on any stoop, or at any sidewalk café, and take in the sounds of man and machine, the polychromatics of the auto garages and the shoppy shops, the endless side scroll of cars and foot traffic. —Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 18 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

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