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...sleepless night, and housekeepers deposit cards filled with engaging tales of the hotel's history on your bed. Superb contemporary French cuisine is available at the Jaan restaurant, and if you really want to test the distance to the former imperial palace, well, the East 33 café serves a whopping 33 varieties of dumplings...
...then there are smaller, but just as effective, acts of integration, like the Kit@p Evi café, which offers free Turkish lessons. "We can benefit from the richness that diversity brings, or let it divide us," says David Lammy, M.P. for Tottenham. "We choose to benefit." It isn't easy: "We have had to learn how to live together here." But it's work worth doing - and every little bit helps. "I love this area and I don't want to see it go down," says Mehmet. "So if we're all cooking something...
Next time you find yourself in Irkutsk, the former administrative capital of Siberia, one pit stop should be high on your list: Café Fiesta, tel: (7-3952) 20 30 33. For a start, customers enjoy free wi-fi access. Add to that friendly servers (by local standards), ease of ordering (just go to the counter and point at the dish you want) and comfortable banquettes for snuggling away from the cold, and you've found the sweetest spot in the town center-especially if you're a non-Russian speaker...
...café's menu consists of salads, pizzas and-unusually for a place in this neck of the woods-sushi. It's all of a serviceable standard, but Fiesta's young, cosmopolitan atmosphere, the weekend DJ nights and the opportunities for people watching through expansive windows overlooking colorful Uritskogo Street-one of the city's main shopping drags-add plenty of seasoning. An added bonus is Arbatskii Dvorik, the cozy restaurant located upstairs from the café, which is named after the Arbat, a famous street in Moscow. As well as English menus, you'll find some decent wines there...
...building engineers, come to scout the project for the Italian town of Selvetta, where things are even darker - nearly four sunless months each winter. Like Viganella residents, they complain more of high heating bills than of depression supposedly linked to lack of sun. Franco Rolandi, who runs the only café nearby, says the scarce heat from the mirror isn't the point. "This town is heading for extinction. We need to do something," he says. "Remember when they built the Eiffel Tower? People said, 'What's the point?' Now look at Paris...