Kafehauz, kawiarnia

café, coffeehouse; a place where coffee was brewed and served. In a broader European meaning – a place for selling coffee and newspapers, for meetings, various discussions and exchanging points of view, playing billiards, chess, and draughts.

Source: “For the billiard, which you declared to lend me in the kafehauz, I am asking for the ordinance to give me back, and I shall repay the total amount when they open a new tab for me.” AGAD, Archiwum Radziwiłłów IV, ref. no. 618, p. 109, Anna Luiza Radziwiłłowa née Mycielska to Michał Kazimierz Radziwiłł “Rybeńko,” in Nieśwież, April 19, 1761.

See also: P. Ługowski, Kaffehauz Aleksandry Ogińskiej w Siedlcach, w: Miraże natury i architektury. Prace naukowe dedykowane Profesorowi Tadeuszowi Bernatowiczowi, eds. A. Barczyk, P. Gryglewski, Łódź 2021, pp. 245–256; B. Popiołek, Między kuchnią i spiżarnią. Magnackie regestry wydatków kuchennych w osiemnastowiecznej Rzeczypospolitej, Warszawa 2025.