5 TV Coffee Shops We Wish Were Real . . . and 1 That Actually Is

So many conversations about nothing happened in the second booth from the entrance at Monk's, the Seinfeld crew's neighborhood coffee shop. Fun fact: while the interior of the diner was shot on a soundstage, Tom's Restaurant — near Columbia University — was used for those exterior shots. That's why viewers conveniently only ever saw the side of the building with the word "restaurant" appear on the show!