Mark Smith on 15 Nov 2012  •  Link

There were several Coffee Houses in Pepys' time around the Royal Exchange and it is most likely that Pepys will have visited many of them during the period he was writing his diaries. The question is how to best differentiate between them in the different diary enties.

Some of the most celebrated Coffee Houses close to the Exchange were the Sultaness Head Coffee House, Pasqua Rosée & Bowman’s Coffee House and Great Coffee House (or Morat’s Coffee House at the sign of the Turk’s Head). The latter was located in Exchange Alley and is almost certainly the one mentioned in Pepys’ diary entry for 28th May 1663.

San Diego Sarah on 23 Oct 2023  •  Link

You can visit one site of a coffee shop Pepys knew in 1660 -- but it has another name and occupies a different building today:

Jamaica Wine House, City of London, opened 1660

The Jamaica Wine House, known locally as "the Jampot", is located in St Michael's Alley, Cornhill, in the heart of London's financial district. It was the first coffee house in London and was visited by the English diarist Samuel Pepys in 1660.
It is now a Grade II listed public house and is set within a labyrinth of medieval courts and alleys in the City of London. It lies in the ward of Cornhill.

The Jamaica Wine House has historic links to the sugar trade of the West Indies and the Ottoman Empire. There is a plaque on the wall which reads "Here stood the first London Coffee house at the sign of the Pasqua Rosee's Head 1652."
Pasqua Rosée, the proprietor, was the servant of a Levant Company merchant named Daniel Edwards, a trader in Ottoman goods, who imported the coffee and assisted Rosée in setting up the establishment. The coffee house, which opened in 1652, is known in some accounts as The Turk's Head.

The building that currently stands on the site is a 19th-century public house. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam…
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Resta…

San Diego Sarah on 23 Oct 2023  •  Link

You can visit one site of a coffee shop Pepys knew in 1660 -- but it has another name and occupies a different building today:

Jamaica Wine House, City of London, opened 1660

The Jamaica Wine House, known locally as "the Jampot", is located in St Michael's Alley, Cornhill, in the heart of London's financial district. It was the first coffee house in London and was visited by the English diarist Samuel Pepys in 1660.
It is now a Grade II listed public house and is set within a labyrinth of medieval courts and alleys in the City of London. It lies in the ward of Cornhill.

The Jamaica Wine House has historic links to the sugar trade of the West Indies and the Ottoman Empire. There is a plaque on the wall which reads "Here stood the first London Coffee house at the sign of the Pasqua Rosee's Head 1652."
Pasqua Rosée, the proprietor, was the servant of a Levant Company merchant named Daniel Edwards, a trader in Ottoman goods, who imported the coffee and assisted Rosée in setting up the establishment. The coffee house, which opened in 1652, is known in some accounts as The Turk's Head.

The building that currently stands on the site is a 19th-century public house. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam…
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Resta…