A Visual Tour of 35 Literary Bars and Cafés from Around the World / Emily Temple

In our habitual fantasies, writers do nothing but sit at small café tables, sometimes meeting with their friends, other times gazing wistfully into a pint or swirling an espresso before they scribble down their latest brilliant thought. It may have worked for Hemingway, but I’m here to tell you: that’s not usually what writing looks like. But hey, it’s Friday. So what better time to indulge our daydreams and salivate over a few of the bars and cafés that famous writers frequented in days of yore? I mean, writerly fantasies aside, I wouldn’t mind reading for a while in any one of these. Of course, this is nowhere near a complete list of every place a famous writer ever drank—not least because in the interest of avoiding the New York/Paris/Dublin trap, I’ve limited the choices to one per city—so feel free to add on to the list. Now, without any further ado: 35 literary watering holes in 35 cities. Which one would you visit? ... http://lithub.com/a-visual-tour-of-35-literary-bars-and-cafes-from-around-the-world/

Café Tortoni, Buenos Aires

Café Tortoni, Buenos Aires

  Jorge Luís Borges and modernist poet Alfonsina Storni were frequent visitors in the ’70s, and they’re still there, in wax figure form, at Borges’s regular table, hanging out with Carlos Gardel.