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The Nearby Café Worldwide

Coincidence? Or have they all wandered into some of the many branches and franchises of our international chain, but neglected to capitalize our name? We think it's the latter, and have restored the capitalization. But you decide! Herewith a random selection of sentences generated by a search for the words "The Nearby Café" via our favorite search engine, Google, on October 11, 2001. The resulting collage, we believe, gives an accurate portrayal of the subtle, diverse pleasures and occasional high dramas of The Nearby Café way of life.
  • "Beckett Took the Student to a Nearby Café." Headline for a letter to the editor of the New York Times about a 1971 incident involving the late author Samuel Beckett, datelined January 12, 1990.
  • "Take Aubele's advice and 'sleep until the bed kicks you out.' Then go to a Nearby Café ('there is always a Nearby Café in Buenos Aires,' he points out), and ask for the classic desayuno (breakfast): café con leche y tres medias lunas (B.A.-style café au lait with three crescent pastries)."
  • "Toybox produced approximately 30 visual effects shots [for 20th-Century Fox's Fight Club], including a visually compelling scene featuring a round sculpture that breaks free from its pedestal and smashes into a Nearby Café."
  • "A Nearby Café called Da Hawaiian Kitchen [on Route 55 in Shishikui-cho, Nasa, Japan] came recommended that surprisingly turned out to offer more than just good food and friendly service."
  • "At Stardust, we’re also fascinated by the latest in 802.11 gadgetry that lets us wander wirelessly down to a Nearby Café, yet remain wirelessly tethered not only to the Internet but to our own LAN. But make that a Nearby Café, not the café across town, or the train I take on my way home at night."
  • "I stopped at a Nearby Café [in the Lithuanian port city of Klaipeda] for pancakes and a local draft beer."
  • "Saunter over to one of the delightful Nearby Café barges [in Paris, France] for a drink and some cool jazz."
  • "Afterwards, we get together for coffee, juice, muffins and easy conversation at a Nearby Café [in Toronto, Ontario, Canada]."
  • "Walked to a Nearby Café [in Paris, France] for a café au lait and a croissant but couldn't seem to communicate with the waiter and ended up with a disappointingly American-like baguette instead."
  • "Nearby Café Luna (two bars, indoor and outdoor seating, Italian menu, many gay customers) used to be crowded until some time ago [in Bali]."
  • "You'll soon catch the scent of beignets from Nearby Café du Monde [in New Orleans, Louisiana]."
  • "Stuffing his luggages in the van provided by the record label, he [DJ Krush] ran to a Nearby Café [in New York City] to get a breakfast to eat it in the car while getting his first interview of the day."
  • "The price of a phone call covers a filling meal at the Nearby Café [in Baltimore, Maryland]."
  • "And [the Impressionists'] sense of common purpose was cemented by meetings in the Nearby Café Guerbois [in Paris, France]."
  • "They can't agree, but mention of the cider of Normandy awakens their thirst, and they adjourn to the Nearby Café des Deux Magots [in Paris, France]."
  • "At one point, we have to decide whether to continue up the trail along the side of the mountain or to detour into a Nearby Café." (From a "Dream Log.")
  • "Missy, Ron, Angie, and I walked to a Nearby Café [in Tel Aviv, Israel] where several pieces of Chicho's art are displayed."
  • "The desk sergeant [in Patterson, California], perhaps terrified at the prospect of a confrontation with a villain on the level of Dr. Octopus or the Joker [the Zodiac Killer], had [Karen] Johns wait alone in a Nearby Café for several hours until her car could be returned."
  • "The man who [Thomas] Edison would share his frustrations with . . . the man who owned and worked at this very café (gesture to any Nearby Café), was a man the country would later come to recognize as its President. This [café in Greenwich Village, New York City] used to be called the Lincoln Café, named after its owner . . . an honest man, with a love of European coffee, named Abe."
  • "In a Nearby Café [in Buenos Aires, Argentina], between mouthfuls of sweet, sticky croissants, Dan confides that his grandmother was English."
  • "Previously, only freshmen living at Fluor Tower could use their meal plans at Nearby Café '84 [at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles]."
  • "The Doctor [Doctor Who] assumes that the girl's attention has been drawn by Ace's anachronistic ghetto blaster; he's more concerned with an unmarked black van parked outside the school, and he remains to examine it while Ace heads for the Nearby Café to eat."
  • "The man then entered a Nearby Café [in Port Arthur, Australia], pulled his rifle from a tennis bag and began firing." (Our staff everywhere has since received training in protecting patrons, and Café marshals, inconspicuous in civilian clothing, now patrol all our venues. — Maitre-d'.)
  • "He runs what passes for a gas station, Nearby Café Alpha [in Yokohama, Japan], speaking with a curious accent, somewhat bent over, and with the widest face-distorting grin."
  • "Upon discovering that the Max Ernst exhibit at the Centre Pompidou wouldn't open until the next day, Mel and I repaired to Nearby Café Beaubourg [in Paris, France] for coffee and a snack."
  • "When the 18th annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival screens at the UC Theatre in Berkeley, Saturday, July 25 to Thursday, July 30, audience members will be able to meet at a Nearby Café for a moderated discussion of the just-viewed film. In some cases, the filmmaker will attend."
  • "Jeremiah Henderson, 47, who was in a Nearby Café [in Soho, central London, England], said: "The building shook when we heard the explosion."
  • "Afterwards we will retire to a Nearby Café [in Seattle, Washington] to revel in our creativity and massage our brains."
  • "I called the shuttle in Otorhanga to let them know I was coming, and went in the Nearby Café [in Te Kuiti, New Zealand] for an ice-cream cone."
  • "Zavalu Tazurkaev ran to their rescue from the Nearby Café [in Grozny, Chechnya] and he was also detained by the camouflaged people. Zavalu Tazurkaev's relative, who works at the same café, ran for help to the nearby militia station."
  • "Freshens up and goes to the Nearby Café, where he daily hangs out with his like-minded friends."
  • "At Mr. [Samuel] Beckett's friend's insistence, the agreed-upon rendezvous was at a Nearby Café whose out-of-doors tables stayed open all winter."
  • "The children were still at school and the woman who works with me who has been with me for a very long time ran to the Nearby Café [in Pretoria, South Africa] with her friend to see where my children were, to tell them that the cops were there."
  • "Please be aware that the break is too short to have a drink at a Nearby Café [in Amsterdam, The Netherlands]."
  • "Get into the swing of things by spending an afternoon at a Nearby Café sipping a cup of café au lait and reading the International Herald Tribune."
  • "They sprinted to the relative cover of a Nearby Café, continuing to laugh loudly as they bounded through puddles and kicked water at each other." (From a short story.)
  • "Unable to worry about that while hacking, they later went out to a Nearby Café for a round of java and somehow the name Java got suggested. The language lawyers approved, and the rest is history."
  • "Join us for a wine in the garden before you have an excellent meal at the Nearby Café or bistro bar [in Collingwood, New Zealand]."
  • "To wash it down we went into a Nearby Café [in Rabat, Morocco] to have a coffee and at the same time wrote some postcards."
  • "We got a chance to rest a bit and then headed out for lunch at a Nearby Café [in Rome, Italy]."
  • "You drop down from a skyscraper to the city streets when BOOM!, a fire shoots up in a Nearby Café [in the video game Spiderman 2]."
  • "While you’re surfing [the 'Net in Volcano Village, Hawaii], a Nearby Café patron remarks to his friend, 'I sure screwed up my ankle walking on that lava.'"
  • "[Western Bigfoot Society] Board Member Doctor Sipe helped him out. Dr. Sipe was good enough to buy breakfast for us at a Nearby Café [in Willow Creek, California] . . . waitress didn’t even know there was a museum opening across the street."
  • "Ruth Phillips, 39, who received cuts to her hands and feet, ran to a Nearby Café [in London, England] where she works."
  • ". . . imagine my surprise [!] to hear my name called at prize-giving time. I returned from a Nearby Café [in Cheddar, England] at about 14h59 purely on the off-chance!"
  • "The large traditional office was closed and employees became 'mobile workers,' working from a Digital telecenter with non-territorial offices established in a nearby warehouse, other Digital offices anywhere in the United Kingdom, customers' offices, cars, hotel lobbies and even a Nearby Café in a supermarket [in Newmarket, England]."
  • "It was much too early to call my relatives, so I went to a Nearby Café [in Havana, Cuba] for coffee."
  • "Maria Amélia dos Santos Paixxo stated that on the afternoon of 29 November her son Marcos José, together with a friend called Fernando, went to a Nearby Café."
  • ". . . on Kydatheneon [in Athens, Greece] we are nearly run over by a speeding motorcycle. Luckily there is a cop at a Nearby Café who absentmindedly blows his whistle at the offender, then continues with his conversation and coffee."
  • "The four then took Milanovic to the Nearby Café "Pasaz," in the center of town [Belgrade, Serbia]. Ivanovic punched Milanovic several times along the way. When they arrived at "Pasaz," he was held there some twenty minutes." (We consider The Nearby Café — indeed, any café anywhere — an inviolable sanctuary, and express our outrage over this use of it. — Maitre-d'.)
  • "Adam [Gopnik], the innocent abroad, proposes they adjourn to the Nearby Café aux Deux Magots [in Paris, France]."
  • "He treated me to an espresso at a Nearby Café and then we headed to the Quirinale [in Rome, Italy] for more sculpture."
  • "As he walked to a Nearby Café, he passed Father William Roach, a well-known Catholic priest in town, and Mike Mikeska, the head of the Texas City Terminal Railway Co., which operated the port [in Texas City, Texas]."
  • "He then walked into a Nearby Café and ordered a cup of coffee. Just as he started to take the first sip from his cup he heard a shout. Then a very strong presence. He quickly dashed out of the café, leaving behind some cash for the coffee." (From a short story. We note with appreciation this imaginary patron's remembering to pay his bill. — Maitre-d'.)
  • "Chris' uncle also took us to a weekly motorcycle gathering at a Nearby Café [in Stockholm]."
  • "However, sitting down to a couscous at a Nearby Café [in Montreal, Quebec, Canada] immediately conjured up memories of Paris. Well-dressed women, tall and lean in their trench coats, hunched together in conversation before stepping outside for a cigarette. Trim men in fashionable sport jackets read neatly folded newspapers."
  • "John and Keith are sitting in a Nearby Café [in Kitzbühel, Austria] waiting for us."
  • "Each morning [in Toledo, Spain], we walked down four flights of stairs, said our 'buenos dias' to the snaggle-toothed landlady, and wedged ourselves onto stools in the Nearby Café for cafés au lait."
  • "This afternoon [in Minneapolis] I walked to a Nearby Café where I often go to write."
  • "We were very early so we went to have 'a full English' breakfast at a Nearby Café [in London, England]."
  • "Our lunch was arranged at a Nearby Café located in the middle of an area of high-rise apartment buildings [in Rostov-on-Don, Russia]."
  • "Most of the group headed off to a Nearby Café for lunch [in Montalto di Castro, Italy]."
  • "If anyone’s up for it, feel free to lighten the mood with a party in a Nearby Café [in Vladivostok, Russia]. Just stay away from the potato salad. It’s deadly." (Sorry about that. We've spoken to our staff there. It won't happen again. For the next six months, your potato-salad orders are on the house. — Maitre-d'.)
  • "Gently hanging up the telephone, I used an open jar of Nutella (the chocolaty narcotic that irascible art historians can't resist . . . don't leave home without it) to coax Kristanne out of the telephone booth and into a Nearby Café [in Prague, Czech Republic] where we could talk this whole thing over."
  • "A band playing at a Nearby Café [in Paris, France] blared Doors songs loud enough to echo through the cemetery, while several 20-somethings crouched by trees or graves nearby to smoke marijuana."
  • "It felt like a considerable achievement to reach the bottom of the path — and a Nearby Café [in Italy's Gran Paradiso National Park in the Alps] for tea and hot chocolate — unscathed.'

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