You’ll be taken away by the aroma of fresh-ground high-quality coffee! You can choose from a variety of types of coffee like Brasilia, India, Ethiopia, or top-line Jamaican Blue Mountain. Enjoy the taste of your coffee in its cup of distinctive porcelain in the pleasant atmosphere of the Lobby bar, and along with it choose from among the outstanding desserts from our kitchen. If some of our coffees really appeals to you, we’ll be glad to pack you some for gifts, along with an interesting cup or home coffee-maker.
If you enjoy an emphatic strong taste and dominant aroma, try Ethiopia Crown, or if you prefer a delicate coffee with a nutty after-taste then choose Brasilia Santos. For the greatest connoisseurs we recommend one of the best coffees in the world, Jamaican Blue Mountain, which is famous for its unbelievably harmonic taste and aroma. From our desserts you will love the taste of a spicy tart with Paris cream and delicate caramel, but also highly regarded is our home-stretched poppy-apple strudel with cherries, made according to an original recipe.
The coffee bean is born on the cultivated plant known as the Coffee plant, coming originally from Ethiopia, where even today it grows wild. Growing and expanding the cultivation of the coffee plant began in the country which is today called Yemen, which at that time belonged among the busiest places in the world, centred round the port known as Mokka.
The coffee plant began to be grown in Yemen around 575 A.D., with the height of its cultivation occurring in the 15th century. From Yemen the coffee plant gradually spread to other countries of the world, on its way becoming a highly-regarded and valued fruit. It arrived in Sri Lanka /at that time, Ceylon/ in 1505, then in the 17th century to India and Holland. It was in fact Dutch merchants who spread the growing of the coffee plant to Java, Sumatra and Indonesia. 1714 marks a significant date in the expansion of coffee, when Holland gifted a 1.5 meters coffee plant to France’s Louis XIV, who had it planted in a Paris botanical garden. This single plant is regarded as the forefather of all later coffee plants, and was taken by French settlers to their colonies in South and Central America, and to the Caribbean.
The first reference to the drink which came to be known as coffee dates back to 900 – 1000 A.D., and led to the establishment of the famous coffee-house, “Kaveh Kanes” in Mecca, Arabia. Traders from Venice brought coffee to Europe in 1615, leading to the opening of the continent’s first coffee-house in that city in 1683 – a business that even today may be found in the Piazza San Marco, the Café Florian.
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