What is the oldest cafe in the world?

It is generally believed that the oldest cafe in the world is the Café Procope. It was opened in 1686 in Paris by Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli (1651-1727). He was a Sicilian chef and known as a French entrepreneur and pioneer in the ice cream retail.

At the time in Europe, coffee was considered an exotic beverage. The cafe was known as a pleasant place, and throughout the 18th century, it was a meeting place of the modern intellectual establishment.

Café Procope in nowadays

According to the most plausible version, the world's first coffee shop called "Maktab al-Irfan" ("Circle of thinkers") in 1554 opened in Istanbul, two Syrian merchants.

In America, the first coffee house was opened in 1670 in Boston by William Penn.

In Europe (Austria) - coffee house Kulchitsky (Ko (a) Levitsky) in Vienna, founded after the Viennese victory in 1683.

The first coffee house in the territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was founded in Warsaw in the vicinity of the Saxon garden in 1724, during the reign of Augustus the Strong.