outdoor seating or, in Italian, al fresco
I live in Phoenix. Most of the year the weather is excellent. In the metro area there are maybe 20 restaurants with outdoor seating. In a city of 3 million...Imagine my surprise when I visited Montreal and discovered literally HUNDREDS of cafes, hole in the wall restaurants, and even bars and nightclubs with outdoor seating.
As far as I'm concerned there's nothing more important in such a venue as outdoor seating. Put me down as a fresh air fiend.
Good examples include:
Boulangerie F. Kempinaire, Wallonia, Belgium
Blue Willow Restaurant, Tucson, Arizona
The Green Room Cafe Toronto, Ontario
Cafe Comptoir Chez Mimi, Lyon, France
Gus' Cafe, Canberra, Australia
No Malice Palace East Village, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York
Garden Lounge, Tokyo, Japan
Al Fresco Palo Alto Cafe Palo Alto, California
Raunas, Cesis, Latvia
Wild Duck Restaurant Eugene, Oregon
Mad Magda's Russian Tea Room and Cafe Hayes Valley, California
Bar-Restaurant Polonaise Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Crocker's Folly, London, UK
PEQUIM Mozambique
Lost Dog Cafe, Shepherdstown, WV
Restaurant Ullmann, Prague
Cafe Pongo, Tivoli, NY
BACKOFEN Vienna, Austria
The Moon Under Water, St. Petersburg, Florida
Rat and Parrot, Milton Keynes, UK
The Enigma Lounge St. Louis, Missouri
Windmill on the Common, London, UK
Memories at the Inn on Pender, Pender Island, B.C., Canada
Fat Cat Cafe, San Juan Island, Vancouver, B.C.
Earl Of Sussex Pub, Ottawa, Canada
Tosolini's, Canberra, Australia
Dupont Italian Kitchen, Washington, DC
Schnattl, Vienna, Austria
Stephan Browne, Tel Aviv, Israel
Caffe Strada, Berkeley, CA
Le Pistou, Bistrot Provençal, Cairo, Egypt
Café Fredgagården, Norrköping, Sweden
Related nodes:
Sources:
http://www.kwrestaurants.com/category/outdoor.htm
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/bot97/nonframed/cafe06.html
http://www.javawalk.com/outdoor.html
http://www.pubs.com/outseats.htm
http://www.gov.edmonton.ab.ca/planning_dev/library_map_publications/_lub_help/ezb/ezb/89_outdo.html
Last Updated 05.31.04