Clementine Coffee Bar

Pope Clementine the VIII, in the early 1600's, initially banned coffee due to the decrease in wine sales and had also had claimed coffee as the "devil's drink"-partially due to it's popularity within the Muslim world. He ordered the beans to burned ( and this is where some historians embellish a bit) and was immediately attracted to their aroma. He ordered to try the beans, liked it, and thought he could out-wit " the devil" by baptizing it as a Christian beverage. And that's how Muslims, Italian merchants and a Pope, helped spread coffee's popularity to the Western World, in a nutshell.