Taverns [ Food & Drink venues ]
… provided important locations for middle-class male convivial gathering in eighteenth-century cities, emerging alongside coffeehouses as important multi-use venues for a variety of forms of sociability. Distinct from alehouses, which … to the Present, European Perspectives (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999), p. 473. Unlike the relatively recent coffee and chocolate houses, taverns had a much longer history, dating back to Roman times, so their origins are harder … (short for ‘public house’) developed, a hybrid form consisting of elements of inns, taverns, and alehouses as well as coffeehouses and gin palaces. Early eighteenth-century taverns were marked by a reputation for debauchery and vice. Most …
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