Where web moguls share their morning breath

Such are the benefits of belonging to a Manhattan social tribe (or several tribes) whose members regularly languish for an hour or two on weekday mornings at European-style cafes. Drawn from the self-employed ranks of late-rising professions like fashion, art, publicity and Web publishing, these affluent breakfast clubbers avoid Starbucks as too common, preferring locales where it is not unusual to see black S.U.V.’s and chauffeured BMW’s idling outside. Based on the fact that they all avoid Starbucks because it's "Too Common" and instead prefer to dine at their local European-style cafes, aren't these cafes then becoming common like the Starbucks they all avoid? For the record, we have breakfast at our local Starbucks in Franklin Square New York. Hey we're just common folks. Breakfast Is Late, So Business Is Good [NYT via Gawker]