Up until 1475, coffee was consumed only at home. The world’s first public coffee house opened in Constantinople (now Istanbul), allowing people to enjoy coffee outside the home and gather with ...

especially in Constantinople (where the first coffee-house was established in 1554) ; so much so, that the churches were emptied, and therefore a tax was levied on cof-fee-drinkerB by the Sultan.

Is that why the kitchen wall tattoos with the words “Carpe diem” are particularly popular with them? The first coffee house opened its doors in the harbour city of Bremen in 1673. Hamburg and other ...