The Jamaica Wine House began london life as the city’s first coffee house, in the 1600s. That was when coffee was a significant beverage and coffee houses featured newspapers to read and debates to pursue. Today the Jamaica tucked away in a tiny side street near Mansion House is, well, just a pub. What is … Read more
The first coffeehouse in England was opened in Oxford in 1652. In London, the first one was opened later that same year in at St Michael’s Alley, Cornhill , by an eccentric Greek named pasqua roseé. What is the oldest coffee house in London? The Jamaica Wine House began London life as the city’s first … Read more
By the dawn of the eighteenth century, contemporaries counted over 3,000 coffeehouses in London although 21st-century historians place the figure closer to 550 Early coffeehouses were not clones of each other; many had their own distinct character. Why were coffee houses so popular in 17th and 18th century London? In 17th and 18th century England, … Read more