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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 iced coffee among other cold beverages, such as iced tea , as well as other non-caffeinated beverages.
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]
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).
"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.
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]
It sometimes is erroneously called the oldest café of Paris in continuous operation; (the Queen's Lane Coffee House in Oxford England has been in continuous operation since 1654) [2] however, the original café closed in 1872 and the space was used in various ways before 1957, when the current incarnation (not a café but a restaurant) was ...
A coffee shop at a library in Melbourne (2006) (from Coffee culture) Image 15 The word coffee in various European languages (from Coffeehouse ) Image 16 Coffeepot (cafetière "campanienne"), part of a service, 1836, hard-paste porcelain, Metropolitan Museum of Art (from History of coffee )
The first espresso machine was created in 1822 by the Frenchman Louis Bernard Rabaut. [1] [2]In 1855, another Frenchman, Edouard Loysel de Santais, presented a café express machine at the Exposition Universelle of Paris able to make 2,000 cups of coffee in 1 hour.