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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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.
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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
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
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“Sidewalk café.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sidewalk%20caf%C3%A9. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
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