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Cafe Metropole is a 1937 American drama film directed by Edward H. Griffith, starring Loretta Young, Tyrone Power and Adolphe Menjou.
Alexis (Tyrone Power) is an international playboy with a habit of writing rubber checks. Heavily in debt to cafe owner Monsieur Victor (Adolphe Menjou), Alexis agrees to pose as a Russian nobleman, Alexis Paneiev, and woo heiress Laura Ridgeway (Loretta Young), so that Victor can get his hands on the girl's money.
A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café is an establishment which primarily serves hot coffee, related coffee beverages (e.g., café latte, cappuccino, espresso), tea, and other hot beverages. Some coffeehouses also serve cold beverages such as iced coffee and iced tea. Many cafés also serve some type of food, such as light snacks, muffins, or pastries. Coffeehouses range from owner-operated small businesses to large multinational companies such as Starbucks.
In continental Europe, a café is a traditional type of coffeehouse, but elsewhere the term "café" may also refer to a tea room, "greasy spoon" (a small and inexpensive restaurant, colloquially called a "caff"), transport café, or other casual eating and drinking place. A coffeehouse may share some of the same characteristics of a bar or restaurant, but it is different from a cafeteria. Many coffee houses in the Middle East and in West Asian immigrant districts in the Western world offer shisha (nargile in Greek and Turkish), flavored tobacco smoked through a hookah. Espresso bars are a type of coffeehouse that specializes in serving espresso and espresso-based drinks.
Coffea is a genus of flowering plants whose seeds, called coffee beans, are used to make coffee. It is a member of the family Rubiaceae. They are shrubs or small trees native to tropical and southern Africa and tropical Asia. Coffee ranks as one of the world's most valuable and widely traded commodity crops and is an important export product of several countries, including those in Central and South America, the Caribbean and Africa.
Several species of Coffea may be grown for the seeds. Coffea arabica accounts for 75-80 percent of the world's coffee production, while Coffea canephora accounts for about 20 percent.
The trees produce edible red or purple fruits called "cherries" that are described either as epigynous berries or as indehiscent drupes. The cherries contain two seeds, the so-called "coffee beans", which—despite their name—are not true beans. In about 5-10% of any crop of coffee cherries, only a single bean, rather than the usual two, is found. This is called a peaberry, which is smaller and rounder than a normal coffee bean. It is often removed from the yield and either sold separately (as in New Guinea peaberry), or discarded.
Greasy spoon is a colloquial term for a small, cheap restaurant or diner typically specialising in fried foods. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term originated in the United States and is now used in various English-speaking countries.
The name "greasy spoon" is a reference to the typically high-fat, high-calorie menu items such as eggs and bacon. The term has been used to refer to a "small cheap restaurant" since at least the 1920s.
Many typical American greasy spoons focus on fried or grilled food, such as fried eggs, bacon, burgers, hash browns, waffles, pancakes, omelettes, deep fried chicken, and sausages. These are often accompanied by baked beans, french fries, coleslaw, or toast. Soups and chili con carne are generally available.
Since the 1970s, many Greek immigrants have entered the business. As a result, gyro and souvlaki meats are now a common part of the repertoire, often served as a side dish with breakfast and as a replacement for bacon or sausage.
Café Metropole, located on the vibrant Place de Brouckère, offers high-end brasserie cuisine in line with Brussels’ tradition. This luxurious brasserie welcomes its restaurant guests in an Art Nouveau environment in which the original decor has been kept; both the building’s interior and exterior have been classified. Guests can choose to sit either inside, in the intimate yet lavish interior of the Café, or outside on the heated terrace, which is open all year round, to be closer to the city centre’s hustle and bustle. Café Metropole has 80 seats inside and 150 outside, split into two separate terraces in summer.
Short excerpt of the Gene Krupa Quartet performing "Drum Boogie" in New York City's legendary Metropole Cafe. From the 1966 program "Anatomy of Pop: The Music Explosion. You can find me on Facebook at: http://facebook.com/drumuitar My original Gene Krupa site is at: http://drummerman.net Any monetary donations would be appreciated. Due to the progression of a muscle disease, I’m no longer able to work. Contributions will assist in software, hardware, and additional materials for this channel and a potential podcast on the history of jazz drumming. Any donations can be sent to: https://www.paypal.me/drumuitar
1960s New York, Crowds Outside And Inside The Metropole Cafe from the Kinolibrary Archive Film Collections. Clip ref KLY61 available in 4K. To order the clip clean and high res, or to find out more about our archive collections, visit http://www.kinolibrary.com. 00:05:50 EXT. Metropole Cafe, 7th Avenue and 48th Street. Crowds looking into Metropole cafe, cabaret club, go go dancers. Pan around to neon marquees on 7th Avenue. Marquee - DIZZY GILLESPIE. 00:07:20 INT Women dancing on stage with band backing her. Go go dancer, showgirl. Crowd standing in the doorway. Kinolibrary is a commercial archive film agency supplying high quality, rare and inspiring footage to media professionals. Our collections span the world and tell a century of stories. WEBSITE: http://kinolibrary.com/ INSTA...
The hat trick scene in Cafe Metropole, directed by Edward Griffith, with a screenplay by Jacques Deval. Check out my Comic Spirit blog for thoughts about classic Hollywood comedies at https://comicspiritblog.wordpress.com/
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Tyrone Power, Adolphe Menjou, Loretta Young and company in Cafe Metropole, directed by Edward Griffith, with a screenplay by Jacques Deval. Cafe Metropole is an unjustly neglected comic beauty from the Golden Age of screen comedy. Check out my Comic Spirit blog for thoughts about classic Hollywood comedies at https://comicspiritblog.wordpress.com/
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Cafe Metropole is a 1937 American drama film directed by Edward H. Griffith, starring Loretta Young, Tyrone Power and Adolphe Menjou.
Alexis (Tyrone Power) is an international playboy with a habit of writing rubber checks. Heavily in debt to cafe owner Monsieur Victor (Adolphe Menjou), Alexis agrees to pose as a Russian nobleman, Alexis Paneiev, and woo heiress Laura Ridgeway (Loretta Young), so that Victor can get his hands on the girl's money.