"Cafe" redirects here. For other uses, see Cafe (disambiguation). This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2008) Café Terrace at Night, September 1888, by Vincent van Gogh. A café (pronounced /ˈkæfeɪ/ or /kæˈfeɪ/), also spelled cafe[a], may in the United States mean an informal restaurant, offering a range of hot meals and made-to-order sandwiches,12 while in most other countries it refers to an establishment which focuses on serving coffee, like an American coffeehouse. Origin of the term "café" is from French for coffee. Contents 1 In Europe 2 In North America 3 Notes 4 See also 5 References 6 External links // In Europe

In most European countries, such as Austria, France, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Portugal, etc., the term café implies primarily serving coffee, typically accompanied by a slice of cake/tart/pie, a "danish pastry", a bun, or similar sweet pastry. Many (or most) cafés also serve light meals such as sandwiches. European cafés often have tables on the pavement as well as indoors. Some cafés also serve alcoholic beverages, particularly in Southern European countries. Iguana Café – Tahlequah, Oklahoma. In the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland a café (with the acute accent) is similar to those in other European countries, while a cafe (without acute accent) is more likely to be a greasy spoon style eating place, serving mainly fried food, in particular breakfast dishes.

In the Netherlands and Belgium, a café is the equivalent of a bar, and also sells alcoholic beverages. A coffeeshop in the Netherlands sells soft drugs (cannabis and hashish) and is generally not allowed to sell alcoholic beverages. In North America A café or coffee shop is a restaurant with full-service tables and counters and broad menu offerings over extended periods of the day.3 In hotels, the coffee shop is a more popular-priced alternative to the formal dining room. Coffee shops often encourage families and provide special menus for children. To establish a family-friendly atmosphere, in many localities they do not serve wine or beer.4 Notes a. ^ The most common English spelling, café, is the French, Portuguese and Spanish spelling, and was adopted by English-speaking countries in the late 19th century.5 As English generally makes little use of diacritical marks, anglicisation includes a tendency to omit them and to place the onus on the readers to remember how it's pronounced, without being given the accents. Thus the spelling cafe has become very common in English-language usage throughout the world, especially for the less formal, i.e. "greasy spoon" variety (although orthographic proscriptivists often disapprove of it). The Italian spelling, caffè, is also sometimes used in English.6. In southern England, especially around London in the 1950s, the French pronunciation was often facetiously altered to /ˈkæf/ and spelt caff 7.

The English words coffee and café both descend from the continental European translingual word root /kafe/, which appears in many European languages with various naturalized spellings, including Italian (caffè); Portuguese, Spanish, and French (café); German (Kaffee); Polish (kawa); Ukrainian (кава, 'kava'); and others. European awareness of coffee (the plant, its seeds, the beverage made from the seeds, and the shops that sell the beverage) came through Europeans' contact with Turkey, and the Europeans borrowed both the beverage and the word root from the Turks, who got them from the Arabs. The Arabic name qahwa (قهوة) was transformed into kaweh (strength, vigor) in the Ottoman Empire, and it spread from there to Europecitation needed, probably first through the Mediterranean languages (Italian, Spanish, French, Catalan, etc.) and thence to German, English, and others, though there is another well-based theory that it first spread to Europe through Poland and Ukraine, through their contacts with the Ottoman Empire. See also Look up café in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Parisian café Viennese café Cafeteria Coffeehouse Greasy spoon Internet café Sidewalk cafe Café Procope Cafe Scientifique Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) References ^ A Café is a coffee-house, a restaurant; strictly a French term, but in the late 19th c. introduced into the English-speaking countries for the name of a class of restaurant. Oxford English Dictionary ^ A coffee-house; a teashop; an informal restaurant; a bar.; Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English ^ Christopher C. Muller and Robert H. Woods. An expanded restaurant typology. Cornell Hotel & Restaurant Administration Quarterly 35.n3 (June 1994): pp27(11). ^ Bernard Davis, Sophie McCoy, Andrew Lockwood, & Sally Stone. Food and Beverage Management Butterworth-Heinemann, 3rd ed., 1998. ^ Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition (1989), entry number 50031127 (café). ^ Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition (1989), entry number 00333259 (caffé, n) ^ Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition (1989), entry number 50031130 (caff) External links Internet Cafés Directory Internet Café Information & Set Up Guide Café NGOC TUNG Merriam-Webster: café v · d · eCoffee Topics Economics · Environment · Fair trade · Health effects · History Production by country Brazil · Colombia · Costa Rica · Ecuador · El Salvador · Ethiopia · Haiti · India · Indonesia · Kenya · Laos · Mexico · Papua New Guinea · Philippines · USA · Vietnam Species and varieties List of varieties · Coffea arabica · Coffea canephora (Coffea robusta) · Coffea charrieriana · Coffea liberica Major components Cafestol · Caffeic acid · Caffeine Processing Coffee roasting · Decaffeination · Home roasting coffee Preparation Coffeemaker · Coffee percolator · AeroPress · Drip brew · Espresso (lungo · ristretto) · Espresso machine · French press · Instant coffee · Knockbox · Moka pot · Presso · Turkish coffee · Vacuum coffee maker Popular beverages Affogato · Americano · Bicerin · Cà phê sữa đá · Café au lait · Café con leche · Café Cubano · Cafe mocha · Caffè corretto · Caffè macchiato · Cappuccino · Carajillo · Coffee milk · Cortado · Espresso · Flat white · Frappuccino · Galão · Greek frappé coffee · Iced coffee · Indian filter coffee · Ipoh white coffee · Irish coffee · Kopi Luwak · Latte · Latte macchiato · Liqueur coffee · Long black · Red eye · Ristretto Substitutes Barley tea · Barleycup · Caro · Chicory · Dandelion coffee · Pero · Postum · Roasted grain beverage Lifestyle Barista · Café · Caffè · Caffè sospeso · Coffee break · Coffee ceremony · Coffee culture · Coffee cupping · Coffee Palace · Coffeehouse · Fika · Kopi tiam · List of coffeehouse chains · Viennese café Coffee on Wikibooks · Coffee images at Commons · Category:Coffee · Drink Portal · Coffee & Tea Task Force