An always busy new opening in the heart of buzzing downtown, Café Caramel is popular with families and friends taking a mid-afternoon break from shopping at the mid-range stores around Natavan Square, as well as a later crowd of after-dinner loungers en route between – or even as an alternative to – the many restaurants, pubs and clubs of the area. Downstairs is comfortable and well-designed, but not a patch on the upstairs salon, where great use is made of the vaulted ceiling, with pink-hued lights and waves of frosted glass. The best tables – a couple of intimate comfy chair set-ups – are up here too, accessed across a suspended walkway offering the perfect vantage point for a cup of so-so coffee and an excellent cake or dessert and a few sharp-tongued observations on the passing crowds on Ali-Zadeh Street below.