So, if not the coffee, then what explains the prolificacy of the coffee house?
They head not to the bar, and not to the coffee house, but to the library!
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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.
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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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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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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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.
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.
Indeed, the very arrival of the coffee-house a public place for all classes to gather, exchange gossip and debate the great issues of the day was in itself a force for change.
New forums for communication and debate the newspaper, the circulating library, even the coffee-house sprang up.
Women from around the South have been descending on Arkansas's state capital and making their way to the Wycoff Coffee House.
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.
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.
Just last week voters were reminded again just how brazenly his White House has mixed fund raising with policymaking: documents released by the Administration on Friday show that the party organized a coffee at the White House that brought together its own top fund raisers with banking CEOS and a senior banking regulator, Eugene Ludwig, the Comptroller of the Currency.
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.
Another strange thing about a Viennese coffee house is that the coffee is almost irrelevant.
One afternoon, I met with some undergraduates at the CoHo coffee-house.
Smirnoff discovered their glorious past and re-energized their marketing team. (Smirnoff invented purified vodka in the old country and went on to introduce vodka to the U.S.A.: rumor has it they invented the martini.) Maxwell House coffee did the same to halt a decade-long sales decline.
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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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Some such subversives may wonder how it is that the prime minister's wife, Emine, is banned from official functions in Ankara because she wears the Islamic headscarf, and yet can be received by Laura Bush for coffee at the White House.
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Soon, however, the White House admitted the president had himself erred, having approved a White House coffee guest list that included DNC officials, Comptroller of the Currency Eugene Ludwig, and several banking executives.
After those, Lloyd's new identity will be more obvious to all even if red-liveried waiters continue to serve, just as they did in the old Stuart coffee-house.
Consumers enjoyed the ambience of a coffee house.
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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.
Sports stars extolled the company's virtues, and Starbucks employees - stepping in time to the uplifting music from the film "Chariots of Fire" - paraded the flags of the 25 nations that now house the company's coffee outlets.
The White House's coffee get-togethers were a lucrative part of Democratic fund-raising last year.
The company said its energy drinks contain about 10 milligrams of caffeine an ounce, less than half the concentration of leading coffee-house brews.
The centre will also house a coffee bar and kitchen and young people will be able to talk to staff for advice on careers, housing and other topics of interest.
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The Prime Minister turned down the demand from Labour's Denis MacShane just 24 hours after the House of Commons switched to brands of coffee which are fairly traded for its restaurants and cafes at Westminster.
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