The Rainbow Coffee House was a famous coffee house located at 15 Fleet Street, London.
[1] It was opened by James Farr in 1657, becoming London's second coffee house.
[2] The Rainbow provided a meeting place for freemasons and French refugee Huguenots who established an information centre there.
[3] The Rainbow was also featured in the furore created by Titus Oates, who accused Sir Philip Lloyd of denying the existence of a popish plot there, finding witnesses from amongst the coffee drinkers to testify against him[4] In 1719 John Woodward wrote a satire The Two Sosias: Or, the True Dr. Byfield at the Rainbow Coffee-House, to the Pretender in Jermyn-Street David Hughson wrote in 1807 that the Rainbow was replaced by Nando's Coffee House in the same building, later in the 17th century.
[5] Many notable Huguenots were associated with the Rainbow Coffee House.