Prince Street boasts the classic cafes Borgia and Tina, but Spring Street does have an establishment that is decidedly offbeat, Mix, half cafe, half shoe store.
A Peyton and Byrne tuck shop sits at the gates serving up the most delicious churros and inside the library itself is a heady mix of cafes and silent study spaces and attractive research types.
The pier is regularly named as a top visitor attraction by tourism groups like Trip Advisor and Lonely Planet, partly thanks to its mix of cafes, shops and an arcade which contains quirky machines designed by inventor Tim Hunkin.
For this, and in other works too, Perry's drawing style is reminiscent of cartooning and street art, an ungodly mix ubiquitous on cafe walls the world over.
On the main downtown avenue, Bullard Street, flat awnings shield the storefronts — a mix of galleries, cafes and secondhand shops — from the New Mexico sun.
But some people who operate traditional Internet cafes say the alliance's experiment in mixing corporate and cafe life is not likely to succeed.
Off the sand, the tree-shaded lanes have just the right mix of lively cafes, art galleries and ice cream parlors.
Students and local residents mix genially in cafes, shops and restaurants, including Sushi Thai Garden and Mezze Bistro and Bar, an upscale restaurant on Water Street.
This is the classic Buenos Aires cafe, mixing French and Italian motifs, complete with artifacts celebrating the great tango singer Carlos Gardel and a stained-glass ceiling that is a copy from Maxim's in Paris.
And Mr Watt has had "serious discussions" with property firms about the central waterfront, with hundreds of flats potentially in the offing, along with a mix of bars, cafes and shops to keep the area busy through the day and night.
