“Top Chef” stars Evelyn Garcia and Henry Lu announced that their award-winning restaurant Jun will operate in the off hours as a daytime cafe called Third Place starting April 14. The Heights ...

Third Place will sell coffee and house-made pastries, sweet and savory, in addition to a lunch menu showcasing the cafe’s Chef Residency program.

Sociologist Ray Oldenburg coined the term “third place” in his book The Great Good Place, published in 1989. Starbucks unquestionably mainstreamed the idea of having a physical place that ...

Each new insistence on the importance of third places ends up muddying the definition of what a third place is. For some, it’s a bar or restaurant where they can hang out with friends and ...