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...Best Cappuccino: Café Einstein, Friedrich-strasse 185 and other loca-tions. Large and frothy like a real Italian coffee. Also decaf espresso, latte and snacks...
Gourmet dining is the newest trend in Europe's luxury department stores, and the menus are as cutting-edge as the fashions around them. Though designers like Armani, Courrèges, Ventillo, Lanvin, Barbara Bui and Nicole Farhi realized years ago that the chicest store accessory is a stylish café bearing your label, major retailers are just now choosing to create and run their own restaurants rather than depending on outside concessionaires. "It is a completely new era for restaurants and retail," says Jean Paul Barat, general manager of food operations at Selfridges. "Food is now a driving force...
...replaced Wok Wok - one of only three concessions out of an astounding 22 in-store restaurants - with Mo's, a new Harrods-run American diner targeted at trendy teens. Selfridges in the last seven months has refurbished its Food Hall and added two new restaurants - the Gallery, a stylish café overlooking the Prada, Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Fendi boutiques, and the Base Bar, a hip sandwich eatery in the basement music department - to its existing 15 (three are concessions). Under Barat's direction, Selfridges even won the Royal Warrant for Food, an honor that allows the store to deliver...
...first stop for them, or anyone, should be one of the city's many 300-year-old cafés, maintained in all their ornate glory, famous for serving up a myriad of flavored espressos (try the marocchino) and offering fresh hors d'oeuvres during a nightly 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. happy hour...
...should leave the city without sampling at least two specialties: rétes, a strudel filled with apples or black cherries, and dobostorta, a cake generously layered with a custard of egg yolks, sugar, chocolate and vanilla and then covered with caramelized sugar. Fortunately, the city has numerous cafés ranging from simple to palatial. One worth a visit is the Gerbeaud Cukraszda on Vörösmarty Square. Its opulent decor of brocade wall coverings, wood paneling and crystal chandeliers hanging from vaulted ceilings reflects the Old World ambience of imperial Budapest...