Love Italian cafe surroundings (7)

I believe the answer is:

romance

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'love' is the definition.
(romancing is a kind of loving)

'italian cafe surroundings' is the wordplay.
'italian' becomes 'roman' (Roman is an example).
'cafe surroundings' becomes 'ce' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'roman'+'ce'='ROMANCE'

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(Other definitions for romance that I've seen before include "Feeling of mystery; love affair" , "Novel - affair" , "Various languages such as French" , "Love affair; medieval tale" , "marriage?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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