Ireland's out-of-home coffee booms.(coffeeshops)

Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, June, 2003 by Butler, Reg

If you haven't been to Dublin for several years, there are plentiful reasons for taking another look. Dublin is bursting with prosperity, at all social levels. The republic has been humming during the past decade with stunning economic growth. Today, more people of Irish origin return to Eire than emigrate, bringing trendy ideas from New York, Sydney or elsewhere.

Owing to the greater affluence, Dubliners dine our far more than did their parents. The result is a thriving range of sophisticated and multi-ethnic restaurants, which are much less dependent on tourist visitors. Notably, the coffeeshop culture has mushroomed, in this nation which is also the world's largest per capita consumer of tea -- but mainly in the home. Modern coffeeshops, mainly geared to all...