0 a small, informal restaurant where people can buy drinks and small meals and where there is sometimes entertainment
The normative association of coffeehouses with egalitarian social interaction is by no means a merely contemporary phenomenon.
State power actually played a crucial role in enabling the rise of the coffeehouses, especially through the system of licensing.
Notably absent from contemporary marketing texts is the fact that some of those coffeehouses were offlimits to women.
The public sphere also included institutions such as coffeehouses, salons, museums and, in the case of music, the public concert hall and opera house.
And in the tradition of the coffeehouse, it's also the chance to immerse yourself in eclectic and enduring music while you sip your favorite coffee.
The political survival of the new institution is attributed to the ways in which public house licensing both regulated and also legitimated the coffeehouse.
The rise of the coffeehouse was successful because the coffeehouse-keepers could convincingly represent their occupation as an innocent trade, rather than an inherently seditious one.
The demographic segmentation of the coffeehouse market is thus not simply a matter of choice, but also of economic, racial, and geographic constraint.
