"You could put a garden in the courtyard and tables and maybe a barbecue area".
There's a stone flagged courtyard with tables and chairs for warm weather, a rambling terraced garden and a dining room with open fire.
La Pola Calle 19 No 1-85 (566 5654) Well-placed traditional Candelaria cafe/restaurant, with old-fashioned décor, pictures of old Bogota, and a courtyard with tables.
Casa 425 (425 W. First St.; [866] 450-0425, www.casa425.com) includes a courtyard with tables, chairs and fire pits, a fully stocked bar and a fireplace in the lobby, but it's the soothing ambience of its 28 rooms that make this inn worth a visit.
There are hangout spaces aplenty, including the courtyard, equipped with table tennis and pool tables, and a fire pit (and, unfortunately, a sound system that pipes in classic rock until about 7 p.m .. Inside, the vast, high-ceilinged lobby is decorated with rattan furniture, glass coffee tables, low banquettes and a wall of art books.
It has stark walls, polished concrete floors, oversized Anglepoise lamps and butterfly chairs on the raised veranda, and an internal courtyard has a table for shady breakfasts and candlelit suppers.
Half an hour passes, and then a waiter brings you downstairs to a courtyard, where your table stands between a fountain and a narrow pool filled with turquoise water.
Come to the neighbourhood local, Societi Bistro, to dine in the courtyard garden, with Table Mountain views, or in the atmospheric, brick-walled and wine-rack covered interior on unfussy bistro dishes, such as ostrich burgers or tomato fettuccine, all washed down with local wine or beers that have been expertly sourced.
You then enter a nondescript building and find yourself in a darkened courtyard with no tables in sight.
Next to the new building was a deep courtyard crowded with tables, where people sat drinking dark beer; a sign said "GRAND OPENING".
