This is a – growing - collection of details or simple documentation about the development of the Coffee-House culture around the globe, focusing mostly on the first coffee-houses to open in various cities since over the last 500 years. The accuracy of this list depends solely on the various sources of information available to me in historical books and the internet.
1511 Mecca
1532 Cairo
1554 Constantinople
1645 Venice
1651 Livorno (Leghorn)
1652 London
1655 Oxford
1659 Marseilles
1663 Amsterdam
1663 The Hague
1664 Cambridge
1665 Yarmouth
1669 Bremen
1670 Boston
1672 Paris (a small bar where mostly Cognac was served)
1673 Edinburgh
1673 Glasgow
1675 Paris
1679 Hamburg
1685 Vienna
1686 Paris / Procope’s by Francisco Procopio dei Coltelli
1694 Leipzig
1696 New York
1700 Salzburg
1703 Philadelphia
1712 Stuttgart
1714 Prague
1718 Stockholm
1720 Venice / Alla Veneyia Triomfante, better known as Caffe Florian, was opened by Floriano Francesconi and it was the first coffee-house in Italy to admit women
1721 Berlin
References
- The World Encyclopedia of Coffee, Mary Banks, Christine McFadden, CatherineAtkinson
- Coffee, Gordon Wrigley
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