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The Covid-19 pandemic has forced restaurants to close their doors. Work has been whipped away from tens of thousands of talented chefs around the world. But with time on their hands, many chefs are sharing their gifts on social media. From live cooking sessions with Michelin-starred cooks to amazing images of delicious creations, we take... View Article

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These seven North County stops make perfect additions to your culinary itinerary

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Recently one of my best friend’s and I celebrated our 25-year friendversary! You can read more about our friendship here, but we met in an oversized tyre in the primary school playground and the rest…

Nestled on Royal Poinciana Way, Almond Palm Beach specializes in unfussy fare in an inviting atmosphere

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Nestled on Royal Poinciana Way, Almond Palm Beach specializes in unfussy fare in an inviting atmosphere

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Nestled on Royal Poinciana Way, Almond Palm Beach specializes in unfussy fare in an inviting atmosphere

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The recipes in the Italian resto's new Sant Ambroeus: The Coffee Bar Cookbook will allow devotees to recreate their favorites at home

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The recipes in the Italian resto's new Sant Ambroeus: The Coffee Bar Cookbook will allow devotees to recreate their favorites at home

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New Yorkers love their restaurants, especially the fine dining establishments that allow for a full evening of culinary leisure. Reimagining such experiences during a time of COVID takes ingenuity and creativity, and Resident rises to the gastronomic challenge. Known as a bespoke, ‘supper club’ style foodie experience, Resident takes underutilized, luxury real-estate throughout NYC and […]

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Nick Liberato is the face of the hit Netflix series “Restaurants on the Edge” (Season 2 just released), which focuses on helping restaurants in distress by performing consulting, restructuring, and turnaround services in a holistic manner. His worldwide adventure takes viewers to some of the world’s most spectacular locations, including mountainsides and white beaches, which […]

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Cafe culture has long been associated with life in France but in many countries, cafes are more than places to have a libation and socialise. They have been the birthplace of major iconic cultural works.

JK Rowling penned Harry Potter in Edinburgh’s Elephant House, Hemingway wrote A Movable Feast at Paris’ Closerie des Lilas, while inspiration for international hit Garota de Ipanema (The Girl From Ipanema) came from a Brazilian girl passing by a Rio de Janeiro bar leading to the beach.

Here, we gather 5 fascinating and iconic cafes and restaurants that inspired today’s most renowned works.

The Elephant House: Harry Potter, by JK Rowling

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Without the Elephant House pub in Edinburgh, Scotland, the Harry Potter saga may not have seen the light of day. Most of the early novels of the saga were penned in this Scottish pub with a red facade. JK Rowling sat in the back room overlooking the Edinburgh castle, drafting the characters and the whole universe that became an international blockbuster when first published in 1997.

Closerie des Lilas: A Movable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway

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This autobiographical tale by Ernest Hemingway came out after the writer’s death. The novel narrates the first few years that Hemingway spent in Paris during the 1920s. It offers readers a trip through the City of Lights and its most iconic neighborhoods from rue Mouffetard, to Brasserie Lipp and the Les Deux Magots café in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

But it’s in the Montparnasse neighborhood that Ernest Hemingway actually wrote A Movable Feast at Closerie des Lilas, a café-restaurant where painters like Renoir and Monet gathered in the mid 19th century. On a side note, Closerie des Lilas is also where F. Scott Fitzgerald asked Hemingway to read The Great Gatsby before publication.

Café de Flore: Being and Nothingness, by Jean-Paul Sartre

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If Parisian Café de Flore had been shut down, would French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre have produced all of his iconic texts? In an upper room of this historic Saint-Germain-des-Prés café, the French writer outlined drafts of Being and Nothingness, published in 1943. Not far from Sartre, at a table that faced him, his partner Simone de Beauvoir drafted what would go on to become her first hit novel, She Came to Stay.

Place du Forum: Café Terrace at night, by Vincent Van Gogh

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It’s a must see for every tourist visiting Arles in the south of France. Located on the Place du Forum, just next to Nord Pinus hotel, Van Gogh made this cafe immortal in 1888. At the time, it was called “The Terrace.” The Dutch painter set his easel on the northeastern corner of the Place du Forum and depicted the warm end-of summer atmosphere of this welcoming French café.

Veloso: Garota de Ipanema, by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes

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The most well-known bossa nova tune was written in 1962 in a Rio de Janeiro café called Veloso. Music composer Antonio Carlos Jobim and poet Vinicius de Moraes regularly met there. They both drew inspiration from a young Brazilian woman who used to pass by the bar’s terrace.

Garota de Ipanema became an international hit thanks to Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto’s adaptation in English two years later. The Girl from Ipanema, sung by Astrud Gilberto, is one of the most played songs worldwide, and the legend started in a carioca bar.

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