A café is a type of restaurant which usually serves coffee and snacks.

The term "café" comes

from French, and means "coffee".
You can read newspapers and magazines there, or chat with other customers about current topics. It
is known as a place where information can be exchanged.
A café is sometimes called a coffeehouse or a coffee shop or tea shop in English, a café
in French and a bar in Italian. (Cafe/café is the spelling in English, French, Spanish etc. But "caffe" is
how the Italian word for coffee is spelled in that language.) It shares some of the characteristics of
a bar, and some of the characteristics of a restaurant, but it is different from a cafeteria, which is a
type of restaurant where customers can choose from many dishes on a serving line. In some
countries, cafes more closely resemble restaurants, offering a range of hot meals, and possibly
being licensed to serve alcohol. Most British cafes, however, do not sell alcohol.
In the Netherlands, cannabis-selling cafés face an uncertain future under a planned new law
banning smoking in public places. The cafés, which attract millions of tourists each year, allow
customers to buy marijuana over the counter and openly smoke it. In the United States, donut shops
are also popular places to drink coffee and hang out.