For a Writer, This Is the Most Important Part of a Cafe

It’s all in the sounds

Cosy cafe. Note the doll and stuffed fox on the shelf. Photo, author’s own.

Hemingway knew the worth of a good cafe; his memoir, A Moveable Feast, begins with the chapter:

A Good Cafe on the Place St.-Michel
It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly… I entered far into the story and was lost in…