A café or cafe is a small restaurant or
coffeehouse
A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café (), is an establishment that serves various types of coffee, espresso, latte, americano and cappuccino, among other hot beverages. Many coffeehouses in West Asia offer ''shisha'' (actually called ''nargi ...
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More specifically, it can mean a small, cheap eatery or diner. This includes establishments also called:
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Diner
A diner is a type of restaurant found across the United States and Canada, as well as parts of Western Europe and Australia. Diners offer a wide range of cuisine, mostly American cuisine, a casual atmosphere, and, characteristically, a comb ...
, or "coffee shop" (USA)
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Cafe (British), or "transport cafe" (UK)
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Greasy spoon
A greasy spoon is a small, cheap restaurant typically specializing in Short order cooking, short order fare.
The term is also used in the UK–along with the informal term "caff" for café–to refer to a small privately-owned eatery that tradi ...
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A cafe is a privately owned
convenience store in South Africa.
Cafe, café, or CAFE may also refer to:
Acronym
CAFE may refer to:
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CAFE Foundation ("Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency"), a U.S. non-profit aviation development and flight test
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Canadian Association for Free Expression
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Canadian Association for Equality
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Corporate Average Fuel Economy, a U.S. standard for minimum fuel efficiency in vehicles
Art, entertainment, and media
Television
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''The Cafe'' (2004 talk show), a 2004–2010 Irish talk show that aired on RTÉ Two
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''The Café'' (2011 talk show), a 2011 Al Jazeera English talk show
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''The Café'' (New Zealand TV program), a 2016 New Zealand morning television program that airs on Three
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''The Café'' (British TV series), a 2011–2013 British television comedy series about a fictional cafe in the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare, United Kingdom that aired on Sky1
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"The Cafe" (''Seinfeld''), an episode of the American TV show
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"Café" (''Bluey''), an episode of the Australian TV show
Other art, entertainment, and media
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''Café'' (2010 film), an American film
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Café (2014 film), a Mexican documentary
* Project Cafe, the unconfirmed codename of Nintendo's eighth generation console,
Wii U
The Wii U ( ) is a home video game console developed by Nintendo as the successor to the Wii. Released in late 2012, it is the first eighth-generation video game console and competed with Microsoft's Xbox One and Sony's PlayStation 4.
The W ...
* ''Café: A Collection of Literary Sketches'', a book by Japanese author
Novala Takemoto
is the professional name of , a Japanese author, and fashion designer.
Biography
Takemoto was born in Uji, south of Kyoto. As a child, he was shy and preferred drawing and reading (two of his favorite authors were Osamu Dazai and Yasunari K ...
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''Café'' (magazine), a men's fashion magazine in Sweden
Other uses
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''Cafe'' (plant genus), a former genus in the family Rubiaceae; a synonym for ''Coffea''
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@Cafe, a former New York City based Internet café
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CAFE (media company), a media company
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Café (musician), a Brazilian percussionist, singer, and composer, real name Edson Aparecido da Silva
* Café, a brand of home appliances from
GE Appliances
GE Appliances is an American home appliance manufacturer based in Louisville, Kentucky. It operates as an independent subsidiary of Chinese Haier Smart Home Company, a publicly traded affiliate of Haier, after an acquisition from General Electr ...
See also
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CAF (disambiguation)
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Café culture of Baghdad
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Cafeteria
A cafeteria, called canteen outside the U.S., is a type of food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service, whether in a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school; a scho ...
, a type of restaurant, usually self-serve
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Caffè
Coffee in Italy is an important part of Culture of Italy, Italian food culture. Italians are well known for their special attention to the preparation, the selection of the blends, and the use of accessories when creating many types of coffees. ...
, a term for Italian coffee
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Coffee
Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted, ground coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content, but decaffeinated coffee is also commercially a ...
the word ''café'' exists in many romance languages
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Coffee shop (disambiguation)
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Coffeehouse (disambiguation)
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Crisis cafe
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