Jamaica Wine House
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.[1] It is now a Grade II listed public house[2] 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.[3][4][5]
The building that currently stands on the site, a Victorian public house, dates from 1885.[6] This pub's licence was acquired by Shepherd Neame[7] and the premises were reopened after a restoration that finished in April 2009. There is a wood-panelled bar with three sections on the ground floor and downstairs restaurant.
See also
References
- ^ "Monday 10 December 1660 (Pepys' Diary)". 11 December 2003. Archived from the original on 10 July 2023. Retrieved 4 May 2007.
- ^ Historic England (10 November 1977). "Jamaica Wine House (Jamaica Buildings) (1079156)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 June 2014.
- ^ Bennett, Alan; Bealer, Bonnie K (2002). The World of Caffeine: The Science and Culture of the World's Most Popular Drug. Routledge. p. 154. ISBN 0-415-92722-6.
- ^ Wild, Anthony (2005). Coffee A Dark History. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 90. ISBN 0-393-06071-3.
- ^ Cowan, Brian William (2005). The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 94.
- ^ Freeman, Janet Ing (2013). The Epicure's Almanack - Eating and Drinking in Regency London (2nd ed.). London, England: The British Library. p. 19. ISBN 978 0 7123 5704 3.
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: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Charity, Paul (30 March 2009). "Shepherd Neame acquires flagship pub". Archived from the original on 10 July 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
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