Café Kafka

Café Kafka
Location Information
Location	The City
Affiliation	Lemony Snicket
Type	Café
Behind the Scenes
Appearances	The Reptile Room (mentioned) Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (mentioned) The Beatrice Letters (possibly)

Café Kafka is an eatery located in The City. It is not known what district it is in nor has a complete menu been revealed.

History

It is mentioned that Lemony Snicket was sitting in the Café Kafka when he received The Daily Punctilio newspaper that published his obituary.

When Snicket was instructing his Kind Editor on how to obtain the manuscript for The Wide Window, he tells them to go to the café at 4pm the next Wednesday and to order a jasmine tea from the tallest waiter on duty, who would bring them the manuscript and several scattered items.

Speculation

Due to the café's proximity in the city, it is possible that Café Kafka could be the café in which an eleven-year-old Lemony Snicket took Beatrice Baudelaire for "excellent" root beer floats. As such, it could also possibly be the café where he later was delivered a message by Beatrice Baudelaire II, who sat at the corner table to see if he wanted to meet her.

Trivia

• The Café Kafka is named after Franz Kafka, a German author who is regarded as a major figure in 20th-century literature.
  • His book, The Metamorphosis, was also referenced in the background character of an "ill" Mr. Samsa, and as the book Snicket had to abandon at The Lost Arms.

Appearances

Books
A Series of Unfortunate Events (Books)
1. The Bad Beginning (1999):	Absent	7. The Vile Village (2001):	Absent
2. The Reptile Room (1999):	Mentioned	8. The Hostile Hospital (2001):	Absent
3. The Wide Window (2000):	Absent	9. The Carnivorous Carnival (2002):	Absent
4. The Miserable Mill (2000):	Absent	10. The Slippery Slope (2003):	Absent
5. The Austere Academy (2000):	Absent	11. The Grim Grotto (2004):	Absent
6. The Ersatz Elevator (2001):	Absent	12. The Penultimate Peril (2005):	Absent
13. The End (2006):		Absent
All the Wrong Questions
Who Could That Be at This Hour? (2012):	Absent	Shouldn't You Be in School? (2014):	Absent
When Did You See Her Last? (2013):	Absent	Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? (2015):	Absent
File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents (2014):		Absent
Snicketverse
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (2002):		Mentioned
The Dismal Dinner (2004):		Absent
The Beatrice Letters (2006):		Possibly
29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy (2014):		Absent
The Hero of the Story (2017):		Absent
Poison for Breakfast (2021):		Absent
Other Snicket Books
The Baby in the Manger (2002):		Absent
The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming (2007):		Absent
The Lump of Coal (2008):		Absent
The Composer Is Dead (2009):		Absent
13 Words (2010):		Absent
The Dark (2013):		Absent
Goldfish Ghost (2017):		Absent