Colourful cafes and bars, and galleries peddling local Huichol tribal art, are plentiful and street food vendors sell original takes on the taco.
I met him at Diddy's, a colourful neighbourhood cafe on Mare Street in east London, to find out why he went in search of the "not-so-elusive bored tourist".
Or go headlong into the hip Yppenplatz Markt in a Croat-Turkish neighbourhood, a big draw for the "bobos" – the bourgeois bohemians who like to be seen sipping local beer at some of the colourful outdoor cafes.
That's the thinking at Union of Genius, a colourful little takeaway cafe with just a handful of seats.
Upstairs, a colourful, airy utilitarian cafe continues the theme across simple breakfast dishes, gourmet sandwiches and specials, such as smoked trout and salmon fishcakes with salad and sweet chilli dipping sauce (£6.45).
This convivial canalside street is Ljubljana's main entertainment hub and boasts a colourful ensemble of cafes and pubs.
Eipprova ulica This convivial canalside street is Ljubljana's main entertainment hub and boasts a colourful ensemble of cafes and pubs.
With its colourful houses, street cafes and lively nightlife, the area is best-known as a hangout for students and a stop-off for those visiting the city pad of the poet Pablo Neruda, which is kept shipshape (literally), just as he and his third wife left it.
And Provincetown is the last place you might expect to find the leading proponent of machismo in American literature: the vast majority of its population is gay, and the colourful, laid-back cafes and restaurants of Commercial Street, the main seafront road where Mailer lives, are hardly the Brooklyn bars of his young adulthood.
The room is decked out like a cafe, with colourful tablecloths and flowers on every table.
