Santa Monica is a town for walking. Santa Monica Place, Montana Avenue and Main Street are home to many upscale boutiques if shopping is your thing. Third Street Promenade is like an “outdoor living room”, with all forms of entertainment – street performers, movie theaters, restaurants, bars, art galleries, and shopping.
Located right in the heart of Chandigarh's Sector 17 shopping and commercial hub, the Indian Coffee House has hosted tens of thousands of people - many of them diehard regulars - over the past 57 years.
Up until my most recent visit, my knowledge of Portland came primarily from friends telling me about their tax-free shopping excursions, and watching the IFC sketch comedy series Portlandia.
Strongly believing in the fusion mantra, Cafe Immigrants in the national capital serves up delicacies from around the world with a fine touch of Indian masalas.
If Chandigarh's upscale Sector 9 inner market has turned out to be the most happening place for the city's elite and youth in recent years, an important reason is the existence of the Backpackers Cafe.