Where Is Coffee Houses. The Grecian Coffee House near Fleet Street was a meeting place for Whigs as well as members of the Royal Society like Isaac Newton who once. The Merchants Coffee House in Philadelphia also known as the City Tavern was the meeting place of some of the finest gentlemen of the time including Washington Jefferson Franklin Lafayette and John Adams.
Since October 2011 the Viennese Coffee House Culture is listed as Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Austrian inventory of the National Agency for the Intangible Cultural Heritage a part of UNESCO. Londons second coffeehouse was named the Temple Bar established by James Farr in 1656. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Polite conversation led to reasoned and sober debate on matters of politics science literature and poetry commerce and religion so much so that London coffeehouses became known as penny universities as that was the price of a cup of coffee.
Coffee Houses Originate in the Middle East in the 1500s. Coffee and tea of all sorts will be offered. It was opened by Edward Lloyd c164815 February 1713 on Tower Street in 1686. Photo courtesy of the UK National Education Network.