1. Concept and origins
A coffee house is a public house in which coffee is served, along with other drinks like tea, chocolate (Cocoa), and spirits, as well as small food dishes. According to Jürgen Habermas, coffee houses and salons were a nucleus of “bourgeois public sphere” [3. 90–93].
The coffee house originated in the Ottoman Empire, where coffee became established in the 16th century as an everyday beverage, and was also consumed in public. The first coffee…