That may be more cinematic--and this is rambunctious Houston after all, named for the Lone Star State's controversial hero.

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As far as it can be traced back, a Ukrainian war hero named Yuri Kulczycki brewed the first cup of coffee in Vienna sometime soon after the Battle for Vienna in 1683, in a place called Under the Blue Bottle.

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