Thesaurus results for CAFES

cafés

noun

variants also cafes

plural of café

as in cabarets

a bar or restaurant offering special nighttime entertainment (as music, dancing, or comedy acts) the café presents nationally known jazz performers in an intimate setting

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as in taverns

a place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises a speakeasy that became a fashionable café with the repeal of prohibition

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as in restaurants

a public establishment where meals are served to paying customers for consumption on the premises they met at a little café in Paris

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Recent Examples of cafés Restaurants must navigate separate applications, fees, and approval processes for sidewalk cafes and roadway cafes, even when both are part of the same establishment. —

Mike Flynn, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2026 These new beverages are available beginning March 11 for dine-in, delivery, pick-up, or drive-thru at Panera Bread bakery-cafes nationwide. —

Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2026 Downtown, museums like The Broad sit near lively outdoor plazas, while main thoroughfares like Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice and Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles proper invite visitors to wander between boutiques, cafes, and galleries under the sun. —

Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 11 Mar. 2026 Cinemas, cafes and restaurants remain open, operating on Ramadan hours — opening up after sundown after people break their fasts — untill 3 am or later. —

Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 9 Mar. 2026 Meanwhile, in the historic Tijuana downtown area, the new pedestrian promenade is open, safe and full of people, restaurants, music and cafes. —

U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026 Up until the past decade or so, food critics seldom bothered to write about casual cafes such as Zip's, instead focusing on the newest shiny-object restaurants in town. —

Keith Pandolfi, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Mar. 2026 Following the Truckee River through downtown, the Riverwalk knits together parks, cafes, public art, and shaded paths to make the whole zone feel like an open-air living room. —

Ted Alvarez, Outside, 4 Mar. 2026 Joining them are restaurants, bistros, cafes, ice cream shops and more in all corners of the city, from Ardenwood to Warm Springs. —

Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2026

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The newest chapter is Velvet Night 76—my personal obsession—inspired by Parisian cabarets.

— Shivani Vora, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
As revolutionary unrest intensified and the Pahlavi regime imposed martial law and closed cabarets and theaters in an attempt to appease conservatives, her sources of income vanished.

— Richard Nedjat-Haiem, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2026