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AssetID: 119547587 / Lindewall, Ingemar / France, Paris, outdoor cafe A coffeehouse or coffee shop is an establishment which primarily serves prepared coffee or other hot beverages. It shares some of the characteristics of a bar , and some of the characteristics of a restaurant , but it is different from a cafeteria . As the name suggests, coffeehouses focus on providing coffee and tea as well as light snacks. Many coffee houses in the Middle East , and in West Asian immigrant districts in the Western world , offer shisha (nargile in Turkish and flavoued tobacco smoked through a hookah . From a cultural standpoint, coffeehouses largely serve as centres of social interaction: the coffeehouse provides social members with a place to congregate, talk, write, read, entertain one another, or pass the time, whether individually or in small groups of 2 or 3. This page is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, anyone associated with the topic.