Soho Coffehouse Tour

Join historian Dr Matthew Green for an immersive, caffeinated tour of the bohemian espresso bars of 1950s Soho as the area's renegade, counter-cultural current ebbs away.
Includes a free cup of traditional Italian espresso at Bar Italia, Soho's oldest surviving coffee shop. 

Dr Matthew Green is the author of the critically acclaimed London: A Travel Guide Through Time, recently described by the Londonist as “easily the most engaging social history of London for a decade' and by William Hague as 'an excellent and vivid work of history”. 
London’s espresso revolution was launched by, of all people, an Italian travelling dental salesman called Pino Riservato in 1953. Disgusted by the abysmal quality of England's coffee, he smuggled in a Gaggia espresso machine, rented a bombed laundrette at 29 Frith Street, and served a revolutionary new drink called cappuccino to hepcats, mods, teddy boys and hippies and their teenage sweethearts...

Name of the event: Soho Coffehouse Tour

Date: 24/04/2016 : 2 pm

Venue: French Protestant Church

Address: 8-9 Soho Square, London, W1V 3QD

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