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Merchant's Cafe is a restaurant in Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington. Located at the corner of James and Yesler since 1890, the reportedly haunted restaurant bills itself as the city's oldest. Located at the corner of James and Yesler since 1890, the reportedly haunted restaurant bills itself as the city's oldest.
The English word café to describe a restaurant that usually serves coffee and snacks rather than the word coffee that describes the drink, is derived from the French café. The first café in France is believed to have opened in 1660. [ 9 ]
The Tontine Coffee House was a coffeehouse in Manhattan, New York City, established in early 1793.Situated at 82 Wall Street, on the north-west corner of Water Street, [2] [3] [4] it was built by a group of stockbrokers to serve as a meeting place for trade and correspondence.
The word derives from the early 19th century, taken from the French word restaurer 'provide meat for', literally 'restore to a former state' [2] and, being the present participle of the verb, [3] the term restaurant may have been used in 1507 as a "restorative beverage", and in correspondence in 1521 to mean 'that which restores the strength, a fortifying food or remedy'.
Costumes of merchants from Brabant and Antwerp, engraving by Abraham de Bruyn, 1577. The English term, merchant comes from the Middle English, marchant, which is derived from Anglo-Norman marchaunt, which itself originated from the Vulgar Latin mercatant or mercatans, formed from present participle of mercatare ('to trade, to traffic or to deal in'). [1]
It used dark blue mugs stamped with the cafe's name. [5] According to KSTW , the business aimed to "[reclaim] and [reintroduce]" Indigenous cuisine of the Americas "in a modern café setting". The menu included blue corn mush with wojape, wild rice bowls with berry vinaigrette , braised bison tacos with pickled onions, Northwest salmon ...
Europeans first learned about coffee consumption and practice through accounts of exotic travels to "oriental" empires of Asia. [2] According to Markman Ellis, travellers accounted for how men would consume an intoxicating liquor, "black in colour and made by infusing the powdered berry of a plant that flourished in Arabia."
Eastern Cafe was a coffee shop in Seattle's Chinatown–International District, in the U.S. state of Washington. Owned by I-Miun Liu, the business operated from 2013 to 2023, closing as a result of financial difficulties associated with the COVID-19 pandemic .