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A coffeehouse, coffee
shop,
or café is
an
establishment
that
primarily
serves coffee,
related
coffee
drinks
(latte, cappuccino, espresso),
and
–
depending
on
country
–
other
drinks
including
alcoholic.
Some
coffeehouses
may
serve
cold
drinks
such
as iced
coffee and iced
tea;
in
continental Europe,
cafés
serve
alcoholic
drinks.
A
coffeehouse
may
also
serve
some
type
of
food,
such
as
light snacks, sandwiches, muffins or
other pastries.
Coffeehouses
range
from
owner-operated small
businesses to
large
multinational
corporations.
While
café
may
refer
to
a
coffeehouse,
the
term
"cafe"
generally
refers
to
a diner, British
cafe(colloquially
called
a
"caff"),
"greasy
spoon"
(a
small
and
inexpensive
restaurant), transport
cafe, teahouse
or
tea
room,
or
other
casual
eating
and
drinking
place.[1][2][3][4][5] A
coffeehouse
may
share
some
of
the
same
characteristics
of
a bar or restaurant,
but
it
is
different
from
a cafeteria.
Many
coffeehouses
in
the
Middle
East
and
in
West
Asian
immigrant
districts
in
the
Western
world
offer shisha (nargile in
Greek
and
Turkish),
flavored
tobacco
smoked
through
a hookah. Espresso
bars are
a
type
of
coffeehouse
that
specializes
in
serving espresso and
espresso-based
drinks.
From
a
cultural
standpoint,
coffeehouses
largely
serve
as
centers
of
social
interaction:
the
coffeehouse
provides
patrons
with
a
place
to
congregate,
talk,
read,
write,
entertain
one
another,
or
pass
the
time,
whether
individually
or
in
small
groups.
Since
the
development
of Wi-Fi,
coffeehouses
with
this
capability
have
also
become
places
for
patrons
to
access
the
Internet
on
their laptops and tablet
computers.
A
coffeehouse
can
serve
as
an
informal
club
for
its
regular
members.[6] As
early
as
the
1950s Beatnik era
and
the
1960s folk
music scene,
coffeehouses
have
hosted singer-songwriterperformances,
typically
in
the
evening
The
most
common
English
spelling, café,
is
the
French,
Portuguese,
and
Spanish
spelling,
and
was
adopted
by
English-speaking
countries
in
the
late-19th
century.[9] As
English
generally
makes
little
use
of diacritics, anglicisation tends
to
omit
them
and
to
place
the
onus
on
the
readers
to
remember
how
it
is
pronounced
without
the
presence
of
the
accent.
Thus
the
spelling cafe has
become
very
common
in
English-language
usage
throughout
the
world,
especially
for
the
less
formal,
i.e.,
"greasy
spoon"
variety
(although
orthographic prescriptivists often
disapprove
of
it).
The
Italian
spelling, caffè,
is
also
sometimes
used
in
English.[10] In
southern
England,
especially
around
London
in
the
1950s,
the
French
pronunciation
was
often
facetiously
altered
to /kæf/and
spelt caff.[11]
The
English
words coffee and café derive
from
the
Italian
word
for
coffee, caffè[12][13]—first
attested
as caveé in
Venice
in
1570[14]—and
in
turn
derived
from
Arabic qahwa (قهوة).
The
Arabic
term qahwa originally
referred
to
a
type
of
wine,
but
after
the
wine
ban
by Islam,
the
name
was
transferred
to
coffee
because
of
the
similar
rousing
effect
it
induced.[15] European
knowledge
of
coffee
(the
plant,
its
seeds,
and
the
drink
made
from
the
seeds)
came
through
European
contact
with
Turkey,
likely
via
Venetian-Ottoman
trade
relations.
The
English
word café to
describe
a
restaurant
that
usually
serves
coffee
and
snacks
rather
than
the
word
coffee
that
describes
the
drink,
is
derived
from
the
French café.[citation
needed] The
first
café
is
believed
to
have
opened
in
France
in
1660.[12]
The translingual word
root
/kafe/
appears
in
many
European
languages
with
various
naturalized
spellings,
including;
Portuguese,
Spanish,
and
French
(café);
German
(Kaffee); Polish (kawa); Ukrainian(кава,
'kava');
and
others.
Coffeehouses
in Mecca became
a
concern
of imamswho
viewed
them
as
places
for
political
gatherings
and
drinking.
They
were
banned
for
Muslims
between
1512
and
1524[citation
needed].
The Ottoman chronicler İbrahim
Peçevi reports
in
his
writings
(1642–49)
about
the
opening
of
the
first
coffeehouse
in Istanbul
