Starbucks

This Starbucks is a two-fer. Its baristas brew up great coffee concoctions. But it's also a great museum that pays homage to UNLV student life.
The store is across the street from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas campus. Two walls of the store have current and historical photos of university life, mounted museum style. My favorite is an Impressionist-like still life of two students studying outside. They are sitting back-to-back on a bench. She's on her laptop and he's reading a textbook. Their backpacks sit beside them. The photo looks down on them from above. It perfectly captures student life at a US university.
There are photos of campus architecture and blooming gardens. (Those wildly colorful displays are clearly from spring because they won't last in August!) I love the one of the messy stacks of the library. Quintessential college.
There's a patio but it juts into the parking lot. The patio also faces busy Maryland Parkway, so you can watch the the cars whiz by.
There's a crosswalk to campus, making this a favorite hang out of the college crew.
Since it's in a shopping center, there's plenty of parking.
If you want a cup of coffee AND a taste of college life, this is your place.