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"In France, the café is the "third place," apart from work and home, where one can put time on hold and be who you are." - Joan Osburn in the book "The Cafes of San Francisco."

Hot Stuff, Homage to France/Beautiful Bistro

By Angelica Pence, San Francisco Chronicle, January 29, 2003

Beaucoup boutiques. Design shops for Francophiles have sprung up all over the Bay Area.

By Angelica Pence, San Francisco Chronicle, January 29, 2003

Haute Chocolate, Get your fix of all things French at Café Society

By Sasha Paulsen, Napa Valley Register, November, 12, 2002

High Society, Café Society brings class and culture to Downtown Napa

By Pierce Carson, Napa Valley Register, August 18, 2002

"Within 15 minutes of entering Café Society, I was seated on a really cute French café chair, drinking a cappuccino with a wafer of Belgian chocolate on the side.In the background, French ballads from the 1930ās played. Next to me, a stack of Maison Francais, a home decorating magazine. In French.

I thought Iād died and gone to France."

- Kevin Courtney in the Napa Valley Register, February 2002

"Glass domes cover platters of fresh pastries, croissants and scones. The small tables leave just enough elbow room to scan the house copy of the International Herald Tribune, while French pop music plays softly in the background.

No youāre not in Paris, youāre in downtown Napa at Café Society, which recently opened on Main Street next door to the Margrit Biever Mondavi Opera House Theatre.

Owners Steven and Joan Osburn are interior designers who have transformed 1,300 square feet of space into a copy of a tiny French café, as well as a retail shop for mostly French antiques and, in back, their design studio, enclosed behind partitions of etched glass and wood."

- Kathy Phipps in the Napa Valley Register,, March 17, 2002

"Relaxing in an authentically fitted French cafe, visitors can enjoy a perfect espresso or exquisite Parisian hot chocolate accompanied by a divine dessert and the latest International Herald Tribune or French magazines. Equally stimulating to the senses is browsing the hand-selected European treasures such as brightly colored Italian espresso machines, early 20th century chandeliers from Prague, vintage French café signs and a myriad of café furniture and accoutrements."

- Napa Valley Register, July 17, 2002