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A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café (French: ⓘ), is an establishment that serves various types of coffee, espresso, latte, americano and cappuccino. Some coffeehouses may serve cold beverages, such as iced coffee and iced tea , as well as other non-caffeinated beverages.
The Antico Caffè Greco (pronounced [anˈtiːko kafˌfɛ ɡˈɡrɛːko]; transl. "Old Greek Café"), sometimes simply referred to as Caffè Greco, is a historic landmark café which opened in 1760 on Via dei Condotti no.86 in Rome, Italy. It is the oldest bar in Rome and second oldest in Italy, after Caffè Florian in Venice.
Coffee was a popular beverage in Maltese high society—many coffee shops opened. [38] The first mention of coffee in a European text is in Charles de l'Ecluse's Aromatum et simplicium aliquot medica-mentorum apud Indos nascientum historia from 1575. He learnt of coffee from Alphoncius Pansius in Padua. [39]
Europe's first coffeehouses sprang up in Venice in 1629 and spread quickly throughout villages and metropolitan areas in Italy and France, where sidewalk coffeehouses became a Parisian trademark.
The main coffee port in Italy is Trieste where there is also a lot of coffee processing industry. [2] Italian coffee consumption, often espresso, is highest in the city of Trieste, with an average of 1500 cups of coffee per person per year. That is about twice as much as is usually drunk in Italy. [3]
"The Pedrocchi Cafe" became the first of six newspapers, which were named after the coffee house. [1] The ground floor was completed in 1831, while in 1839, the Gothic pastry shop called "Pedrocchino" was built. During the "Fourth Congress of Italian Scientists" in 1842, the rooms of the upper floor were inaugurated.
Caffè Florian is a coffee house situated in the Procuratie Nuove of Piazza San Marco, Venice.It was established in 1720 and is the oldest coffee house in continuous operation in Italy, and one of the oldest in the world (the oldest being Queen's Lane Coffee House in Oxford, [citation needed] founded in 1654).
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