Outdoor Cafés and Restaurants in Germany
1.In general, Germans like to spend time outdoors enjoying nature, fresh air and sunshine. As soon as the temperature allows people to sit outdoors, they do so. They love to drink their coffee and eat their breakfast, lunch and dinner in outdoor cafés and restaurants. In Germany, we have plenty of possible places to dine at, including either small, cozy ones or big, upscale ones. The furniture can be simple—made out of plastic—or it can be made out of iron or wood.
Some places use tablecloths, fine cutlery, and nice, decorative accessories; while others don't use much.
The menu varies from place to place, as well as from region to region.
You will find cafes where they sell mainly fresh baked cream cakes, fruit cakes and cookies, as well as ice cream parlours where you get fresh homemade Italian ice cream served in glass cups or in a waffle. Moreover, you can visit restaurants and beer gardens which are known for their traditional German food and drinks, as well as foreign cuisine such as Italian, Chinese and French food.
2. AMONG the many reasons to suspect that Europeans are more gifted than Americans at enjoying urban life is this: they eat outdoors because it’s pretty. We eat outdoors even though it’s not. By we I mean New Yorkers, and I specifically mean the New Yorkers who, from the first rumor of spring to the dying gasps of an Indian summer, insist on restaurants with sidewalk cafes, apparently believing that nothing sauces roasted chicken like the exhaust from an M104 bus and there’s no music more relaxing than the eek-eek-eek of a delivery truck in reverse.
On the narrow and sometimes cobbled byways of Paris, Rome or Barcelona, a sidewalk cafe most likely has a view, a mood, a purpose beyond fresh air. (To be fair, it isn’t so fresh there, either.)
On Broadway, Columbus or Lexington, a sidewalk cafe has traffic — pedestrian and vehicular — so dense and close that a diner has to learn not to flinch. Wine helps. For me just three and a half glasses do the trick.
Of course I’m generalizing, and perhaps I’m exaggerating, but I’m nonetheless wondering: are the ranks of New Yorkers who like these seating arrangements really so large?
On the evidence of last week’s news, they are. And they’re growing.
And they’re a neat window into the peculiar character of this city’s denizens, although some open-air epicures are really just looking for a place to smoke. Thanks to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, they get a double dose of carbon monoxide — some from Marlboro, some from Mercedes — for the price of one entree of braised short ribs. The man knows how to cull the herd.
What happened last week was an announcement by city officials that restaurants with sidewalk cafes could henceforth install portable natural-gas heaters and thus extend the weeks or months when a diner might comfortably — in terms of temperature, that is — lunch or sup outside.
And part of what fueled that decision, apparently, is the increased popularity of sidewalk cafes in New York, the number of which has grown by 25 percent over the last four years, according to city officials. There are now 900 of them.
Some are really lovely. I bet 875 aren’t. I should be clear: I’m talking about cafes that are actually on sidewalks — that jut into public space — because exposed areas or patios that are set back from the sidewalk, and exist within the bounds of a restaurant, aren’t part of the aforementioned count. They’ve been using portable heaters for a while. And I’m not talking about back gardens. Who doesn’t love a back garden? It’s often quieter than the rest of the restaurant — trees and clouds are effective mufflers — and sometimes it’s even surrounded by vine-covered brick walls or a painted wood fence.
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