The evening that we stopped by this split-level coffee shop we imagined ourselves in the Manolos of one of our favourite TV characters: Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City. Could it be — we imagined ourselves furiously typing into our PowerBook G3s — that men (audible gasp!) can’t help, but lie? We prodded for an answer that we couldn’t find on our plates; an answer that the four lovely young women, sitting on the table adjacent to us, had answered in the affirmative.

No, the Butter Beer does not have any alcohol in it, and gets its flavour, and possibly even part of its name, from the ‘butter’scotch extract that’s used in this refreshing drink. Pics/ Nimesh Dave