Queen's Lane Coffee House is a historic coffee house established by Cirques Jobson, a Levantine Jew from Syria. Dating back to 1654, it is the oldest continually serving coffee house in Europe, but it has only been on the present site (Oxford, England) since 1970. The building in which it operates is a Grade II listed building. It was in this coffee house where Jeremy Bentham first conceived of Utilitarianism.Bentham, Jeremy (1829) Article on utilitarianism: long version, in Amnon Goldworth (ed.) Deontology Together with a Table of the Springs of Action and Article on Utilitarianism, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983, pp. 291-292.
In 2009, it rebranded itself as "QL". There is a second, smaller, QL Café. Another Café QL (now called Café Bonjour) in Headington was once owned by the same family but was sold years ago.
The café has been owned by the same family since 1983.
See also English coffeehouses in the 17th and 18th centuries History of coffee
References
External links Official website Queen's Lane Coffee House information from Daily Information Queen's Lane Coffee House information from OxfordCityGuide.com Queen's Lane Coffee House information from The Oxford Guide