I’m feeling a little under the weather tonight, so I thought I would share with you this news from Mars Drinks and American Heritage. On November 20th, colonial history comes alive with the launch of the Richard Charlton’s Coffeehouse in Colonial Williamsburg.
Mars Drinks and American Heritage have teamed up to create a unique and pallet pleasing cultural experience around America’s centuries-old passion for coffee and tea. In conjunction with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Mars Drinks has embarked on a major restoration of the 18th century Richard Charlton’s Coffeehouse that will reopen its door to the public on November 20th. To top off this announcement, Mars Drinks and American Heritage have partnered to recreate colonial style teas, coffees and chocolate made only from ingredients available during this period.
With coffee beans from the West Indies and a custom blend of black tea made with tea leaves from India, the blends will be available for consumption at America’s only running 18th century coffeehouse.
In keeping with its legacy, Richard Charlton’s Coffeehouse will serve coffee, tea and hot chocolate to guests, creating the beverages below the main floor and utilizing a dumb waiter to serve it to customers upstairs. To add a modern twist, R. Charlton’s Blend Coffee and Tea will be brewed using Flavia’s Creation 400 brewers.
The Flavia American Heritage R. Charlton’s Blend Coffee and Flavia American Heritage R. Charlton’s Blend Tea will also be sold on MyFlavia. A 12oz package of American Heritage R. Charlton’s Blend Whole Bean coffee will be available soon in shops at Colonial Williamsburg.
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I hope you feel better Mike!
This news greatly excites me – I can’t begin to explain my love for Colonial Williamsburg. I am a huge history geek (I put my degree in History on hold several years ago because I didn’t know what to do with it other than teach, which I don’t want to do
), and the Colonial period is MY FAVORITE US history subject. I completely geek out at W-burg. Now I have even more reason to go back! HA! I’ll be ordering some of their stuff online when it’s available to hold me over till I can get back to VA 
American History in general was my favorite subject. I’ve wanted to visit Colonial Williamsburg since I was a little kid, now that they have a coffee shop there, I’ll have to finally go there.
Cool stuff Mike. Coffee houses actually played a major role in history, serving as the backdrop to the birth of the American Revolution! Colonial America made the switch from tea to coffee after the tea tax that spawned the Boston Tea Party. From that time forward, the USA balked at tea and found solace in the beloved bean.
I think you just gave me an idea for a post or maybe even a series of posts down the road.
Mike,
Nice post. Found this link that I thought would interest you: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/coffee
Hi,
Does anyone know if Richard Charlton’s Coffeehouse is currently open to the Williamsburg public, and if so, what time and what days of the week? Some of the information/dates I found indicate it might still be under construction? Couldn’t tell. Our family will be traveling to Williamsburg the second week of December, the 9-11, 2010, and during one of the decorating tours,I am certain my husband and sons would rather enjoy a cup of coffee in a wonderful historic setting.
Any information would be greatly appreciated! Thank you so much!
I know it opened November 20th of last year, so I would assume it’s still open. However, I haven’t been there in person so I can’t say for sure. I’ll keep an eye out for further info.
Thank you so much, Mike! I feel certain if it actually opened that it should still be open as well. I wasn’t sure it ever had an official open. I greatly appreciate the information. We’ll plan to visit!
Excellent! I hope you enjoy the visit.
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