Open the door of the coffee shop

Author: Zhang Yao
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: In Europe, a true coffee shop patron always has a favorite: a store they visit every day, a familiar coffee table they sit at, a familiar waiter, and a preferred type of coffee. Some customers only go to one coffee shop in their entire lives, absolutely refusing to step through the door of any other store. "Meet at the coffee shop!" is a social custom that has been popular on the European continent for over three hundred years. This book traces the story of the coffee shop, starting from the Café de la Régence in Venice in 1645, following the unchanging cultural role of the coffee shop in Western society, as well as the life attitude and philosophy it represents.