Will's Coffee-house
Will's Coffee-house was a café in London that existed until 1712. It became known as a meeting place for writers .
It is not known exactly when Will's Coffee-house was founded. It already existed in 1670. The cafe was on Bow Street (according to other sources on Russell Street) in Covent Garden next to the old King's Theater and was run by William Urwin. The café became famous because the writer John Dryden, who was the leading writer in Charles II's England , made it his hangout and met other authors of the restoration period there on a regular basis.
1700, after Dryden's death, Will's quickly lost its importance. Richard Steele wrote in the Tatler on April 8, 1709 : “This place has changed a lot since Mr. Dryden's time. Once you saw songs, epigrams and satires in everyone's hands, today you only see the playing cards there. "
The café closed in 1712. The writers had already migrated to the Button's Coffee-house opposite .