Coffee with legs!

Most folk take their coffee with milk & sugar, the Irish add a healthy dose of whisky but in Chile, however, coffee often comes with legs!!!


With legs? Yeah. It's called café con piernas, or "coffee with legs". It's a type of stand up coffee bar found throughout Santiago & Chile, where the servers are all beautiful, scantily clad women. They even have their own chains: Café du Brasil, Café Caribe, Café Haiti, Café Ikbar etc



I was nosey so Dave & I went into Cafe Caribe for a coffee! There were three ladies serving, each with tiny skin tight red dresses (so clingy they looked sprayed on) and wearing too much make up. Our waitress served Dave his coffee, she leaned a seductive hip against the bar & with a pout asked if he took sugar & then poured the sugar in for him! Apparently Cafe Caribe is a tad less risque than others, for instance in Café Ikbar they wear bikinis, g-strings or some other type of provocative underwear. As little clothing as is legally possible!

These coffee houses sure are a Chilean phenomenon. Albeit unique - give me a Starbucks anyday!