With seven different methods of brewing coffee, it should come as no surprise that this java shop ranks high among coffee lovers. Serving Latin-inspired breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and booze, it can almost be all things to all people. There’s even a “happy hour + kids” menu from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. daily that allows parents to grab a cocktail, beer, or wine (or a shot and a beer for $10) while both parents and kids grab some bites off the happy hour menu. Curbside takeout and delivery available.

Lively Mexican restaurant Casa Don Juan is known for ice-cold margaritas, housemade tortillas, fresh guacamole, and a lengthy menu of authentic Mexican favorites like tamales, seafood soup, and among others. Happy hour runs Monday through Thursday from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. with a petite food menu of tacos, queso fundido, chicharrones, and more. Palomas, margaritas, and piña coladas are the stars at happy hour, but the restaurant pours beer and wine too. Delivery available.

Located on Main Street, this new addition to the Arts District embraces “Main Street, USA” vibes with a menu that showcases flavors from across the American experience. There’s a baba-choke-ganoush and hominy hummus (artichoke dip and hominy hummus with asparagus), rabbit boudin, empanadas, and a cheeseburger. Open 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday through Friday; Saturday from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.; and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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As the nearly 20-year old restaurant’s name suggests, Cornish Pasty specializes in the hearty, filled shortcrust pastry that that hails from Southwest England’s Cornwall. With nearly 50 pasties on offer, diners can choose pasties like “all day English breakfast,” Guinness stew, lamb vindaloo, and vegan pot pie. Non-pasty menu items include a selection of apps, salads, sides, and desserts. Cornish pasty opens daily at 11 a.m., closing at 10 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday, at midnight on Thursday; and at 2 a.m. on Saturdays.

Accomplished chef and owner James Trees brings a menu of daily pastas and house-made sourdough breads with toppings like anchovy butter or burrata; naturally leavened pizzas; and antipasti using an in-house butcher and the restaurant’s own herb garden at his Italian restaurant in the Arts District. The restaurant has a patio for social distancing dining outdoors. Dinner daily, with lunch Monday through Friday and brunch Saturday and Sunday.

Vesta’s obsessive devotion to coffee spills over from its high-quality coffee beans to its website with coffee brewing guides for multiple brewing systems and home coffee brewing tips on storage, water quality, and grind size. Delivery and pick-up is available, but taking a moment to sip a coffee in the shop’s simple, sun-drenched space is lovely. It is open Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. until 4 p.m., and on Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

This temple to German cuisine serves traditional pretzels; as well as a large variety of schnitzel; a respectable offering of sausages like Nuernberger rostbratwuerst’l, bier brats, curry wurst, and more; and other Bavarian favorites. The restaurant remains true to the German theme through the very end of the meal, with strudel and black forest cake on offer. The beer list is short, focusing on a few German beers and the most basic American options. The wine list includes some interesting German labels. Open daily from 11 a.m. until “late.” Online ordering for takeout also available.

Inspired by Bangkok street food and Southern Thai-style dishes, D E Thai Kitchen serves tom yum soup, chicken satay or coconut shrimp, crab Rangoon, and fried tofu. Rice and noodle options include pad Thai, pad see eiw, and drunken noodles, plus spicy basil, ginger garlic, and garlic pepper among the plate dishes, with the option of adding pork, chicken, beef, crispy pork, veggies, tofu, and shrimp or squid. Red, green, and yellow curries join house specials of pork tom yum noodle soup; crab-meat fried rice; and the Beef Boat Noodle Soup, created with Thai-style rice noodle soup with edible blood, anise, bean sprout, and meatballs. Online ordering also available.