Entertainment industry institution will lend your encounter an appropriate backdrop

Café offers a studious setting and excellent coffee

Work from an armchair at a canalside bar and restaurant

Russia’s eastern port city is undergoing development as it boosts investment and trade

The decor in this smokers’ bar invokes the same nostalgia as the name

Gourmet dishes to impress clients in a city south of Madrid

Lake spectacular is an entertaining, if surreal, retreat from air-conditioned trade shows

The restaurant in the French capital has reclaimed its crown for the fashion crowd

Dazzle your contacts in a theatrical restaurant where table tops feature moving images

Coffee shop and informal co-working space is symbol of young, entrepreneurial Ghana

Refurbished café in the City by a peaceful terrace and fountains

Yale professors and students give this longstanding gem full marks for atmosphere

When you tire of steel and glass high-rises, come for a slice of old-school Hong Kong

Order sushi or even Himalayan trout from an eclectic menu

Take a rest from football or your historical pilgrimages and be seen at the champagne bar

A symbol of regeneration not far from the city’s oil and gas towers

Hold your meeting the Brazilian way — with a long, leisurely lunch by the pool

Fine dining and a dizzying view high above the humid city

Retreat from the sub-zero temperatures and get a feel for the Chinese city’s Eurasian past

A panoramic view and smoked sausages at a popular Macedonian business meeting place

Relaxed but sophisticated in the heart of the old town

Hold a literary luncheon at the bookshop that for decades has attracted authors and intellectuals

A coffee house for Silicon Fen’s entrepreneurs and scientists

With its relaxed atmosphere, away from the city centre, it is not for anyone in a hurry

A popular destination for SoHo’s media and tech crowds