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Hidden Cafés
Underground rooms, courtyards, basements, and corner bars that became institutions.
A good café is a public living room. The best ones are unmarked from the street, two flights down, or behind a courtyard door that looks closed.
We log the cafés we keep returning to: the ones that have not been redesigned in thirty years and have no intention of starting now.
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