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...cafe, the 14th "Au Bon Pain Express" to appear on the Boston area's fast food scene (the 15th makes its debut next week), is smaller than the area's previously existing store across the street from Harvard Yard. The Express restaurants, which are almost completely self-service, serve fewer people than do the standard shops...
Company officials say they do not expect the new cafe, which is located at the intersection of Mt. Auburn St. and Mass Ave, to drain business away from the old one, which is only a few blocks away...
...featuring books by local authors make browsing at RI a unique experience. And although it seems to be out of the way, RI is on the corner of Brattle and Church streets, making it a perfect place to kill an hour while waiting for a table at the Border Cafe...
...still full of wealthy and successful people, the artistic center seems to be moving back to the Right Bank, to the slummy area being rapidly gentrified between those two new cultural real estate projects, the flamboyantly ugly Beaubourg art museum and the unflamboyantly ugly Bastille Opera. "Try the Cafe Beaubourg," says one young American, "but I don't think anybody's writing any novels there." "Try the Cafe Coste in Les Halles," says another...
Aging and nostalgic visitors who find the cafe scene not what it used to be also find good reasons for that. One is that Paris cafes flourished because residential hotel rooms were often dark and cold; prosperity has changed that. Another is that, with prices high, many people prefer the neighborhood cafe to the famous institutions. Still, the 40th anniversary can be celebrated only at the Cafe de la Mairie, and though it has become a bit fancy -- the old goldfish tank has disappeared, along with the chessboard -- it is still a neighborhood cafe. It bears its literary traditions lightly...