Ukrainians and Viennese have been arguing for ages about the origins of Europe’s first coffee houses. As far as it can be traced back, a Ukrainian war hero named Yuri Kulczycki brewed the first cup of coffee in Vienna sometime soon after the Battle for Vienna in 1683, in a place called Under the Blue Bottle. Both countries claim credit for inventing European coffee shops, even if for Ukraine, it is only on behalf of its homegrown barrista Kulczycki.
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BBC Travel: Tracing the coffee house revolution to its Ukrainian roots
Ukrainians and Viennese have been arguing for ages about the origins of Europe's first coffee houses.
