but a coffee house did not open there until a century afterwards. London was home to Europe’s first coffee houses, yet the British were among the last and the least active of the European coffee producers. Conversely the French, late converts from chocolate, went on to dominate both consumption and colonial production during the eighteenth century. Diffusion of Coffee Culture in Europe1 First Record of Coffee in Territory First Commercial Shipment Received First Coffee House Opened First Colonial Plantings Italian States 1575 Venice 1624 Venice 1683 Venice Netherlands 1596 Leiden 1616
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