San Agustín, St. Augustine (11)


Source: WTL photograph© June 2007.
Image: Restaurant/cafe on St. George Street in St. Augustine's historic tourist neighborhood.
Comments: Now we see a much newer building in the heart of old St. Augustine. In this case, a stone building with a Spanish-style balcony. This cafe serves French and Italian food and specialty coffees. In other words, it's a very popular and modern establishment that happily caters to the average of 5,000,000 tourists attracted annually to St. Augustine.
Latin American humanities: Spanish colonial architecture fused with modern Anglo-American tastes and perhaps international visitors' tastes (literal and figurative); syncretism; re-Hispanicization of Florida.
Humanities questions: If it's so modern and popular with American (and, of course, foreign) tourists, (A) why, then, is its name still in Spanish? (B) What does "café del hidalgo" mean and why name the establishment in Spanish... since it serves French and Italian cuisine?