So, if not the coffee, then what explains the prolificacy of the coffee house?
Another strange thing about a Viennese coffee house is that the coffee is almost irrelevant.
They head not to the bar, and not to the coffee house, but to the library!
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Goban Askeri, who works in another coffee house in Iskan, proudly shows me his Barcelona jersey.
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Women from all over America have jammed the coffee house's phone lines begging for the six-ounce bottles of blue.
Social media is like the coffee house of yore, where people drop in to have a chat and share things.
Women from around the South have been descending on Arkansas's state capital and making their way to the Wycoff Coffee House.
In fact nobody knows who set off the bomb that killed seven people in a coffee house close to Mr Kasro's shop.
But then the bar-bound group encounters yet another flyer, which advertises a reading that night by a popular author at a campus coffee house.
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After hitting the double-digit mark of 10% growth for the last five weeks, the mammoth coffee house expects things to cool down in October.
Lloyd's of London traces its roots back to 1688 and a London coffee house that established itself as the main place to insure ships.
For example, I can set up a rule that anytime Mint encounters a charge from Caffe Ladro, it should be categorized as Coffee House.
Alan Bowham(ph) is a retired businessman who has breakfast every morning at the City Coffee House in Clayton, one of those small towns around St.
Two rich Arabs sitting in a coffee house in Riyadh counting their money from oil wealth can have an impact on the price of gold.
Another customer drives three hours to find a Niagara-less coffee house.
In a Viennese coffee house, something strange happens to time.
Harris is thought to have compiled The New-England Primer between 1687 and 1690 and to have offered it for sale at his London Coffee House in Boston.
Some scholars opined that the coffee house was "even worse than the wine room", and the authorities noted how these places could easily become dens of sedition.
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In a coffee house in Ankawa, Erbil's Christian quarter, Barcelona fan Mustapha Ergushi puffs on a hubble-bubble as he muses on the explanation for this strange infatuation.
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The coffee house is furnished with aged sofas, mirrors and waxy tables and is popular among the youth for its eccentric gypsy vibe, great coffee, moist cherry pies and wi-fi.
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The airline also offers a "Vienna coffee house in the air" and one quarter of flight attendants are trained sommeliers to guide passengers through the extensive wine list.
Chris Polley(ph), the owner of Jungle Vino, says his wine bar and adjoining coffee house, Java Jungle, cater to a new group of residents that live in and around downtown.
But centuries before intercontinental carbonation or the rise of the European coffee house filled with intellectuals with brains sharpened by caffeine, the first beverage which marked civilization's improvement upon nature was beer.
Consumers enjoyed the ambience of a coffee house.
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Kulczycki was a Cossack (a mounted soldier) with a quirky moustache who came to Vienna to trade after years on the battlefield and in captivity in Turkey, which is where he discovered the coffee house experience he would bring to Europe and improve upon.
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The technical problem was to be kept so secret that it came to be known as "Project X, " and the team, led by Lambuth, held a series of furtive technical meetings at a nearby Starbucks coffee house and Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House, to keep the issue confidential.
Or, for more thoroughly familiar fare, end your child-friendly Delhi day in at the United Coffee House for a comforting bowl of pasta marinara, the All American Diner for a pretty decent hotdog or The Kitchen at the heart of the relaxed Khan Market, for a big, familiar plate of fish and chips before bedtime.
The typical Viennese coffee house -- an elegant institution with high ceilings, marble-top tables and a stack of newspapers to make one linger over an impeccable black brew with a customary glass of water -- may be more famously known than its Ukrainian cousin, but to trace back the origin of the communal coffee space, you have to go to Lviv, a Medieval city in western Ukraine.
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New forums for communication and debate the newspaper, the circulating library, even the coffee-house sprang up.
This comes after a succession of venue announcements with partners like Costa Coffee, House of Fraser and McDonald's.
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