15 Most Famous Cafes

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Some of the most famous novels and literary moments of all time were written and inspired by cafes in Europe. From the American ex-pat writers in Paris to Henrik Ibsen's continental travels, cafes were a place to work while socializing, building stories, and of course, eating and drinking.

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[Kalemanao]

01:49 PM on 04/16/2011

The world-renowned Vesuvio Cafe is separated by Jack Kerouac Alley from City Lights Bookstore. When in San Francisco's North Beach... The Vesuvio Cafe is a must see place... Be there, or be square... :)

[Tom Maremaa]

06:11 PM on 04/14/2011

Hey,
You missed one of the great cafes of all time: Cafe Odeon in Zurich, Switzerland. This is the cafe where Joyce wrote chunks of Ulysses, where Dadaism was founded, where Lenin prepared for his departure to the Finland Station and the launch of the Russian Revolution. When I was a student at the University of Zurich, I practically lived in this cafe. It was grand, in the great old world European tradition, with marble tables, waiters in white jackets, and it was said, some fifty years cigarette smoke clinging to the ceiling. I later wrote a whole sequence in my novel GROK that was set in Cafe Odeon. Turns out that Roger Ebert, the extraordinary film critic, also hung out in Cafe Odeon and claimed it as one of his true favorites in the world.

[Lesperado]

10:47 AM on 04/14/2011

I can't believe they did not mention Vesuvio's, across the alley from Ferlinghetti's City Lights, in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood where all the Beat Poets and writers of the 50s and 60s hung out.

[portrait of a lady]

02:46 PM on 04/14/2011

Thanks, what memories you bring back to me. I used to go their as a young woman little knowing the memories I'd accumulate for years gone by.

[Schreyvogelgasse 8Portal]

10:23 AM on 04/14/2011

Or Hemingway drank here.