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...Sydney: The Apartment Service, tel: (61-2) 9953 7288, offers locations from Sydney's famous beaches to the city center. A one-bedroom flat in Leichhardt, the cool, café-packed Italian quarter, begins at $450 a week...
...tough sell. No charges have yet been filed, but the wounded pride is palpable. - By Charles P. Wallace Selling France To The French It might be more latte than Left Bank, but Starbucks, the world's leading coffee shop, looks ready to take on France's café culture. Two years after landing elsewhere on the Continent, the Seattle-based retailer is taking France's coffee-drinking traditions - either standing up at the tabac or stretched out after a long lunch - head on. With its first outlet set to open early next year, the company is confident it can sell...
...Cafe Laumer Try the famous Frankfurter Kranz, a ring-shaped butter-cream gâteau garnished with candied cherries and chopped caramelized nuts at Café Laumer at 67, Bockenheimer Landstrasse, the favorite haunt of philosopher-sociologist Theodor Adorno. www.cafe-laumer.de...
...have never heard of Costes or his brother Gilbert; they rarely speak to the press. But if you've spent even a weekend in Paris, it's a good bet they have taken your money and shown you a good time. The Costes brothers are limonadiers, French slang for café owners, but theirs is a lemonade empire: a good 40 hotels, cafés and restaurants belong either directly to them or to members of their extended family and employees they have staked. In a city where much of life unfurls at little round tables, the Costes...
...Like generations of Paris limonadiers before them, the Costes brothers made their way up from the Auvergne, a poor region some 700 km south of Paris. Since the 1830s, Auvergnats have dominated the café trade: they made their living hauling coal up apartment stairs while their wives served drinks to the clients. The drink-serving part stuck. Jean-Louis and Gilbert Costes grew up in the business; their mother Marie-Josèphe Costes turned the family farm at Saint-Amans-des-Cots into an inn, which filled up with returning Auvergnats every summer. They told tales...