The Italian Cafe Where New Yorkers Sample La Dolce Vita

Al Pacino coming out of the original Caffé Dante in 2010, with the owner, Mario Flotta Sr., inside at the espresso machine.
"You don’t need to have been born in New York, or even to have lived here very long, to be a real New Yorker. All it takes is a certain passion for this improbable, impossible, mythic city — especially when it’s hurting. Since the pandemic hit, Linden Pride and Nathalie Hudson, the Australian owners of Dante, the acclaimed cafe and cocktail bar on Macdougal Street, have sent roughly 4,000 meals to help feed hard-pressed staff at New York hospitals, all of them paid for by Dante itself with the help of contributions from its patrons. ... Finally, by 2013, they were married and settled in the West Village, and in 2015, they bought the old Caffé Dante — a long-cherished Italian coffeehouse that dates to 1915. ..."
NY Times
Caffé Dante

The bar at Dante has a black oak top and matching stools. In the foreground are the banquettes where Italian ladies once met for afternoon coffee.