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Where it all began. As everyone knows, the British invented everything, and that includes the marvel that is the flat white. This is the very shop that the Elizabethan adventurer Sir Henry Fortingbras White opened after he circumnavigated the globe in his ship The Conrad. This was the expedition that definitively proved the world is flat, which is why Sir Henry became known as Sir Henry “Flat” White, and was given this property in Soho’s Berwick Street by his grateful monarch in 1591. This photo dates from the early 1600s, and they still prepare classic flat whites of timeless drinkability. Coffee: bears the weight of history remarkably well: 15/91. Pastries: try Fortingbras’s Favourite, Higgedy Avocado Gruel, 15/93. Ambience: partially piratical, partly populate by pink piccolo players. Wifi: Yellow Flag = Quarantine, stay away. #coffee #flatwhite #history #virginqueen #earlymodern #hipsterglitz #globalhistory #flatearth #colourised #colorized #photography #london #soho #facts #truth #britains_talent #greatbritons

Where it all began. As everyone knows, the British invented everything, and that includes the marvel that is the flat white. This is the very shop that the Elizabethan adventurer Sir Henry Fortingbras White opened after he circumnavigated the globe in his ship The Conrad. This was the expedition that definitively proved the world is flat, which is why Sir Henry became known as Sir Henry “Flat” White, and was given this property in Soho’s Berwick Street by his grateful monarch in 1591. This photo dates from the early 1600s, and they still prepare classic flat whites of timeless drinkability. Coffee: bears the weight of history remarkably well: 15/91. Pastries: try Fortingbras’s Favourite, Higgedy Avocado Gruel, 15/93. Ambience: partially piratical, partly populate by pink piccolo players. Wifi: Yellow Flag = Quarantine, stay away. #coffee #flatwhite #history #virginqueen #earlymodern #hipsterglitz #globalhistory #flatearth #colourised #colorized #photography #london #soho #facts #truth #britains_talent #greatbritons

#coffee #flatwhite #history #virginqueen #earlymodern #hipsterglitz #globalhistory #flatearth #colourised #colorized #photography #london #soho #facts #truth #britains_talent #greatbritons

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