Noun (abbreviation of noun) 1. Outside restaurants, small restaurants and food stalls [C]
2. Coffee shop [C]
3. American pubs, bars and nightclubs [C]
4. coffee [U]
5. All-capital meaning: The average fuel economy standard of American enterprises (cafe) This cafe is a gathering place for writers and artists. This small restaurant is a place where writers and artists often meet.
The police came and drove the noisy young man out of the coffee shop. The police came and drove the noisy young man out of the cafe.
We had lunch in a cafe and then hurried back to the car. We had lunch in a small restaurant and then hurried back to the car. Cafe is the original word of French, and it is also the normal English spelling form of this word (if the closed note on E is removed, according to rules of english pronunciation, E will not be pronounced). In French, the apostrophe café (closed note) on e means the sound of [e].