Word: miss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cafe proper is a small room in the basement. While it serves the usual fare (at a little less cost) of espresso, capuccino, mokka and assorted pastries, it adds a few specialties of its own like Cranberry Punch. The coffee served at the Cafe Pamplona is absolutely fresh. Miss Yanguas has installed a coffee grinder as well as an espresso machine, and fresh coffee is ground for every three or four cups ordered...
...Cafe Pamplona's greatest distinction lies not in what it serves or the excellent quality of its fare, but in its special atmosphere. Miss Yanguas believes that a cafe should be an uncluttered room and has decorated her coffee house acordingly. She has also tried to capture a little of the spirit of old Spain without overdoing...
Unlike the smoke-filled, dimly lit coffee houses found in Cambridge and elsewhere, the Cafe Pamplona does not attract the bearded, beat set. (Miss Yanguas thinks that perhaps the light keeps the bohemians away.) Her clientele ranges from the international set to the solitary student who comes in to study in the peaceful atmosphere...
...keeping with the European tradition of the coffee house as a place to meet and converse with friends, Miss Yanguas does not allow any guitar playing or background music in her cafe. Even Segovia would not be allowed to disturb the quiet. Nor will she permit eccentric barefoot students to enter. "You wouldn't go to see a friend without your shoes," she declares...
...Miss Yanguas also plans to open a small Spanish restaurant (with an outdoor terrace) on the first floor of the house. She plans to retain the style of her coffee house in the restaurant. Gourmets will be as pleased about this as the coffeegoer is with the Cafe Pamplona...