The Best Cafes to People Watch

Have you ever had that curiously wonderful thing happen to you at a coffee shop; you sit down perfectly intent on doing work, and your neighbor begins a phone conversation that's too juicy to ignore? They're breaking up with their significant other, gossiping about a friend's philandering ways, or referring in code to something that can only be a drug deal.

Suddenly, you find yourself listening to every word of the exchange and entirely losing sight of whatever productive activity you originally set out to do. In any case, much of the beauty of going out to one of these sardine-can, Macbook-littered cafes is to take in the show of people.

So we've compiled a list of the best cafes to get your voyeur on. Because who doesn't like a real life Woody Allen vignette with their morning double espresso?