Where Bywater is dense with cute gingerbread houses and lush trees, the houses in the Seventh Ward tend to be simpler, and more of them have been burned or abandoned; the businesses tend to be burglar-barred convenience stores instead of gaily painted latte bars.
First come the renovated condominiums, the latte bars and the expensive baby strollers.
"Look, there is an element of irony in a middle-class professor writing about displacement of Dunkin' Donuts by latte bars".
Louise Harpman, an architect who, along with her partner, Scott Specht, owns what is perhaps the world's largest collection of disposable lids, has scoured 7-Elevens and latte bars for new specimens.
It may not be the Jungfraujoch, but it does make for a lovely morning: a Laugen croissant and a latte at the bar, sunlight streaming through the front windows, watching time tick away — because, really, where do you have to be? (Open Mondays through Fridays for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and Saturdays and Sundays for brunch and dinner. Entrées $14-$14-$25
It may not be the Jungfraujoch, but it does make for a lovely morning: a Laugen croissant and a latte at the bar, sunlight streaming through the front windows, watching time tick away because, really, where do you have to be? (Open Mondays through Fridays for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and Saturdays and Sundays for brunch and dinner. Entrées $14-$14-$25
It could almost be in Silicon Valley, with young people tapping away at their laptops, or chatting over a café latte at the bar.
Again, stay alert, because more than one person may have the same drink as you (example: "I have a Grande Cafe Latte at the bar!") A grande latte is the most common drink ordered at a Starbucks.
Pick up Santa Maria Novella and Fresh products from the apothecary and a latte at the coffee bar.
Sipping a latte in a coffee bar that lay in the shadow of the Bank of England, I watched as my laptop gathered a list of all the wi-fi networks the people around me had joined.
