Anyone knows how coffee houses evolved?

Answer 1

Around the beginning of sixteenth century Turkish Empire, coffee drinking became the focus around which coffee houses emerged as part of commercial establishments.

The capital of the Turkish sultans, then the ground route of trade, Constantinople, today’s Istanbul, was soon home to scores of them.

The good reason of coffee houses spreading across the Lavant into Arabia and North Africa is that Muslims and parts of the Orient forbade alcoholic beverages.

Europeans bartered with the Near East with coffee to fill the gap that wine and beer assuaged in Europe, evident throughout trade routes of the Mediterranean classical world.

Coffee and the coffee houses came to Vienna, the heart of the powerful Hapsburg Empire at the end of the seventeenth century.

When Turkish armies made their last attempt to reach out from Hungary and take the city, they were forced to leave the field of battle. Sufficient coffee was discovered in their captured supply convoys to begin the craze for coffee in the centre of Europe.

Modelled on Turkish predecessors, coffee houses spread across the continent. By the eighteenth century, they had become centre of revolutionary discourse.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, coffee took cultural centre stage in the intellectual life in Paris, Rome and Vienna. It was then that espresso was introduced into an already centuries old coffee house tradition.


References above:
Mktg..’s “Tea comes to England” – trade routes and influences of tea and coffee.
Think..’s blogspot – general information.

Articles below provide a limited range of perspectives contained therein:
Bean Scoop and Koffeekorner – leisure reading.
The Coffee-house – society, commerce, albeit not quite up to date.
Coffeeresearch – contemporary views.

Answer 2

Coffee houses as we know them today started in Amsterdam in the 1650s. Coffee was brought to Amsterdam via the shipping-trade industry with North Africa and Ethiopia. Coffee was first discovered around 600 AD in Africa and they had coffee houses hundreds of years before Europe.

Answer 3

Check out the coffee facts on this site. I think it gives a bit of coffe history.

Answer 4

Someone put Coffee and Houses together.

Answer 5

Um, probably from the fact people like to get toghether and chat over coffee. I would imagine in the US they began in Seattle. Look up the Starbucks web site

Answer 6

The article in the link noted below talks about the rise of tea and coffee houses in England.
http://www.panix.com/~kendra/tea/tea_to_england.html

There's also a book on this called "Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World"
http://www.amazon.com/Uncommon-Grounds-History-Coffee-Transformed/dp/0465054676

Several synopsi of this book are in the editorial reviews.

Answer 7

excellent question