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Airport Seating

Robert Sommer studied the design of airport seating and concluded that the arrangement of chairs in rigid lines bolted to the floor was deliberately sociofugal — discouraging social interaction such as conversation and encouraging the sitters to go to commercial locations such as shops and cafes.

Arambol

Cafés and restaurants have mushroomed all along the shoreline, from the small "Sweet Water Lake" beach all the way to Mandrem.

Arbat Street

There are also a few restaurants and cafes that cater to the working population and middle class; these include Kruzhka, Praim, and Mu-Mu's.

Bağdat Avenue

The one-way avenue with old plane trees is flanked with shopping malls, department stores, fashion garment stores, elegant shops offering world famous brands, restaurants of international and local cuisine, pubs and cafes, luxury car dealers and bank agencies.

Balnarring, Victoria

Balnarring is at the crossroads of two primary main roads in the south-eastern region of the Mornington Peninsula, namely Frankston-Flinders Road and Balnarring Road (from Mornington), and as a result is home to a few motels, a post office and several shops and cafes including an IGA supermarket.

Ban Dung District

It also has many other shops ranging from Internet cafes and Farang Bars to Agricultural supplies.

Banpo-dong

The area is home of Seorae Village, a small French enclave, with its large concentration of French residents and European-style restaurants, dessert cafes, as well as wineries and cafes stand along its main street.

Birštonas

There are also shops, police department, library, theatre, clinic, pharmacy, book store, schools, museums, cafes, restaurants and the City Hall.

Café de Flore

In his essay "A Tale of Two Cafes" and his book Paris to the Moon, American writer Adam Gopnik mused over the possible explanations of why the Flore had become, by the late 1990s, much more fashionable and popular than its rival, Les Deux Magots, despite the fact that the latter cafe was associated with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, and other famous thinkers of the 1940s and 1950s.

Café liégeois

However during World War I with the Battle of Liège in full swing and Vienna representing the enemy, Paris' cafés started renaming the dessert café liégeois in honour of Belgium's embattled forts.

Cammeray, New South Wales

Miller Street, the main thoroughfare of Cammeray, is lined with restaurants influenced by Chinese, Thai and Italian cuisine, as well as several cafes, the local post office, a petrol station and many other small businesses like dentists and jewellers.

Capel Curig

It is also home to a youth hostel, Army training camp, a camp site, several cafes and hotels and outdoor activity gear shops.

Cassiar Country

Laketon, also known as Dease Town became the unofficial capital of the Cassiar and at the height of the rush it had five stores, four hotels, two cafes and its own newspaper.

Colegio Parroquial Franciscano San Román

It accommodates more than 1700 students and provides classrooms and related rooms, including a computer room, museum, library, auditorium, administrative staff room, chemistry laboratory, and cafes.

Collingham, West Yorkshire

There are many High Street retailers (Marks and Spencer, Boots the Chemist, Superdrug, Costa Coffee etc) and a wide variety of pubs, bars, cafes and restaurants.

Durrat Al-Arus

It includes schools, commercial centers, coffee shops, Shisha cafes, hotels, resorts, a golf club, an equestrian club, an aqua park, theme parks, recreation parks and a yacht marina.

Gaywood, Norfolk

The Gaywood area has a wide variety of local shops, including a Tesco supermarket, Aldi, a launderette, several cafes and various takeaways.

Gita Wirjawan

Besides all these activities Gita has also performed in cafes and written songs for several albums, for example at the end of 2005 he played with some of the world's top jazz groups here in Jakarta, namely Fourplay and Bob James.

Groove zone

They talk about everything from ancient Chinese ceremonies, to the overzealous gamers in the Taipei internet cafes.

Grupo de Usuarios de Linux de Costa Rica

Also, people meet monthly, generally, in places like Cafes, in San Pedro near University of Costa Rica.

Jack Hirschman

For a quarter century, Hirschman has roamed San Francisco streets, cafes (including Caffe Trieste, where he has been a regular patron), and readings, becoming an active street poet and a peripatetic activist.

Jacques Ignace Hittorff

Hittorff also designed the Circus of the Empress, the Rotunda of the panoramas, the Gare du Nord (1861–63), many cafés and restaurants on the Champs-Élysées, the facades forming the circle round the Arc de Triomphe in Place de l'Étoile, besides many embellishments in the Bois de Boulogne and other places.

Joseph Silver

In Johannesburg he operated a network of cafes, cigar shops and police-protected brothels.

Kuroiso Station

The station, located in the former city of Kuroiso, sits in front of a street lined with several local cafes and businesses.

MS Pride of Kent

Her onboard facilities include (amongst others) several lounges, a self-service cafeteria "The Food Court" (the former company branding for this facility was 'International Food Court'), 2 'Costa Coffee' cafés (one previously operated as Cafe Olliveto's until 2004), a Langan's Brasserie restaurant, a French duty-paid shop ("Offshore Shopping") and a bar previously branded as "Silverstones Sports Bar".

Neko Press

He is familiar with Adobe Photoshop and works with Painter X. He has painted live at festivals, clubs, Ray at Night (Mesh), and several other locations and has had galleries all over San Diego, which also include viewings in cafes and stores.

Neve Tzedek

Its main streets became lined once again with artists' studios, including the ceramics studio of Samy D., alongside trendy cafés and bars, and more recently boutique hotels and shops selling hand-made goods to wealthy Israelis and tourists.

Newport, New South Wales

Newport also features many cafes and restaurants, as well as the Newport Arms Hotel on the shore of Pittwater.

Northcote Road

As well as many Cafes and great shops, Northcote Road has an historic food market which dates back to the 1860s, as well as an Indoor Antiques Market.

Oktogon

Oktogon and its famous cafés play a central role in Vilmos Kondor's 2012 novel Budapest Noir.

Palmerston–Little Italy

Made up of a series of Victorian homes on Markham Street which now house independently-owned shops, art studios, cafes, bookstores, boutiques and galleries.

Paul Signac

In 1887 the two artists regularly went to Asnières-sur-Seine together, where they painted such subjects as river landscapes and cafés.

Portomaso Business Tower

St Julian's merges with Paceville, Malta's main nightlife centre where there are clubs, casinos and numerous restaurants, cafes and bars.

Praga Koneser Center

Inside the building complex there will be apartments, office buildings, galleries, a shopping arcade featuring renowned brands, restaurants and cafes, typical of modern urban areas.

Red Flag Linux

As of 3 December 2008, it has been reported that Internet cafes in Nanchang, since November 2008, have been required to install the Red Flag Linux as a replacement for pirated versions of the popular Microsoft Windows operating system, or switch to legitimate copies of Microsoft Windows.

Russell Street, Melbourne

Russell Street is lined with established, green leafy trees and is the address of many restaurants, cafes, bars, shops, offices, 5-star Grand Hyatt Melbourne Hotel and luxury French label Chanel who have a flagship store on the corner of Russell Street and Flinders Lane.

Shibuya, Tokyo

Famed for its beautiful trees that turn bright yellow in autumn, cafes, restaurants and large replica of Michelangelo's David outside of the Papas building.

Sidetrip Travel Magazine

Sidetrip is distributed at the Department of Tourism Information Center (T.M. Kalaw, Manila), Victory Liner terminals (for deluxe passengers), travel agencies, and select cafes and restaurants in Metro Manila.

Taco rice

The dish was created in 1984 by Matsuzo Gibo and introduced at two of his cafes, Parlor Senri and King Tacos, located just a minute from the main gate of Camp Hansen in Kin, Okinawa.

Technology for peace

In 1999, with USAID funding given to Dr. Hrach Gregorian, cyber peace cafes on the northern and southern parts of Nicosia have been setup, from where peace builders could communicate with their peers on the other side.

The Laundromat Cafe

In 2010 two more cafés were opened, at Austurstræti 9, Reykjavík, Iceland and at Gammel Kongevej 96 Frederiksberg, Denmark.

The Laundromat Cafe is the name of four cafés in Copenhagen, Denmark and Reykjavík, Iceland.

Van Aemstel family

Cafes in Amsterdam, Breskens, Arnhem, and Majorca have been named Heren van Amstel after the dynasty.

White Square

It is known not only as a business center that houses such multinational companies as Deloitte, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, but also as a community landmark, largely due to its fountain (which, during the winter holiday season, is covered with a giant Christmas tree), piazza, mix of cafes and restaurants, community-focused events, and its view of the adjacent Nikolai Chudotvorets Church.

Wyndham Vale

Wyndham Vale contains many businesses in the area, including restaurants, cafes, grocery stores, a 7-Eleven, a BP service station and commercial car washes.

Yaksu Station

Around the station, there are lots of shops such as Dunkin' Donuts, STCO (Shop selling men's clothes) and cafès.


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