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Coffeehouses

Here are entered works on public places that specialize in serving coffee and other refreshments and that sometimes provide informal entertainment or serve as a place where groups meet for a particular purpose. Works on small, inexpensive restaurants, independently operated or part of a hotel, where light refreshments or regular meals are served are entered under Coffee shops.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Restaurants

• Coffeehouses -- England
• Coffeehouses -- Government policy
• Coffeehouses -- Moral and ethical aspects

• Cafés
• Coffee bars
• Coffee-houses

• The Early History of Coffee Houses in England; With Some Account of the First Use of Coffee, and a Bibliography of the Subject, by Edward Robinson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Mens Answer to the Womens Petition against Coffee: Vindicating Their Own Performances, and the Vertues of That Liquor, From the Undeserved Aspersions Lately Cast Upon Them by Their Scandalous Pamphlet (London, 1674) (HTML in Germany)

• A Character of Coffee and Coffee-Houses (London: John Starkey, 1661), by M. P. (HTML in Germany)

• By the King: A Proclamation for the Suppression of the Coffee-Houses (London: Printed by the Assigns of J. Bill, and C. Barker, 1675), by King Charles II of England (HTML in Germany)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Savarin Cookbook: Scientific Cooking for Profit (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1929), by Baptistin Allevi (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bohemian San Francisco, Its Restaurants and Their Most Famous Recipes: The Elegant Art of Dining (1914), by Clarence E. Edwords (Gutenberg text)

• London at Dinner: or, Where to Dine (London: Robert Hardwicke, 1858) (HTML at victorianlondon.org)

• Dinners and Diners: Where and How to Dine in London (London: Grant Richard, 1899), by Lieut.-Col. Newnham-Davis (HTML at victorianlondon.org)

• The Lunchroom of Doom (Werewolf Club #2, read by the author in its entirety; c2000), by Daniel Manus Pinkwater (MP3 files (select this title from the "choose a book" menu) at pinkwater.com)

• Recipes of the Month: Famous Foods from Famous Places in the Minneapolis Area (looseleaf edition; 1953), by Minneapolis Gas Company Home Service Department (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Knife and Fork in New York: Where to Eat, What to Order (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., c1948), by Lawton Mackall (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly (partial serial archives)

• La Sagrada Cripta de Pombo (sequel to "Pombo", in Spanish; Madrid: Imp. G. Hernández y Galo Sáez, n.d.), by Ramón Gómez de la Serna (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pombo (in Spanish; Madrid: Mesón de Paños, 1918), by Ramón Gómez de la Serna (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Green Book (African-American travel guidebook) (partial serial archives)
• The Negro Motorist Green Book: An International Travel Guide (New York: Victor H. Green and Co., c1949; see also The Green Book) (PDF with commentary at Michigan)

• Tea Room Business (Poughkeepsie, NY: A.V. Haight Co., c1920), by Ida Lee Cary
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust