Cool Beans coffee house, 304 Kinderkamack Road.
The leaves were scattered around a roll of chive-flecked omelet, a thimbleful of su daizu (vinegared soy beans, a house specialty) and tender salt-grilled octopus.
A more affordable place to digest this feast of arts is Cafes Verlet (256 rue Saint-Honoré, 1st, +33 1 42 60 67 39, cafesverlet.com, métro Pyramides), a century-old coffee shop which offers more than 20 varieties of beans and house blends.
On top of all that, the staff roast their own coffee beans in house, and by the looks of things, they take their coffee seriously.
Bean's house is similar to Dahl's, and the fox runs and the tree where much of the action takes place resemble those in Dahl's garden.
Braised cheeks, fried sweetbreads and seared loin shared the plate along with plump green fava beans, tender house-made gnocchi and goat cheese.
Coffee shops: Lay Bricks (555-13 Sinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu) and Gye-dong dabang (133-6 Gye-dong, Jongno-gu) because they roast their beans in-house.
Favorites include lobster bisque with a sprinkle of white beans, grilled house-made lamb sausage, striped bass over risotto, tuna wrapped in prosciutto, and blackberry tart.
The Dilly Bean has taken Washington, D.C., by storm, it is locally sold by Bloomingdale's, Gristede's, & Baitch-Shopwell, & is about to be nationally distributed by the bean-packing house of Lord-Mott.
Travel between Manchester and Newcastle was provided by First TransPennine Dave Stone, director, Wylam Brewery and organiser of Newcastle's Craft Beer Calling festival Cafe I really like Pink Lane Coffee, which roasts a lot of its beans in-house and serves cracking sandwiches.
