A coffeehouse or coffee shop is an establishment which primarily serves prepared coffee or other hot beverages. It shares some of the characteristics of a bar, and some of the characteristics of a restaurant, but it is different from a cafeteria. As the name suggests, coffeehouses focus on providing coffee and tea as well as light snacks. Many coffee houses in the Middle East, and in West Asian immigrant districts in the Western world, offer shisha (nargile in Turkish and Greek), flavored tobacco smoked through a hookah.

From a cultural standpoint, coffeehouses largely serve as centers of social interaction: the coffeehouse provides social members with a place to congregate, talk, write, read, entertain one another, or pass the time, whether individually or in small groups of 2 or 3.

The Ottoman chronicler İbrahim Peçevi reports in his writings (1642-49) about the opening of the first coffeehouse in Istanbul:

Various legends involving the introduction of coffee to Istanbul at a "Kiva Han" in the late 15th century circulate in culinary tradition, but with no documentation.

Kim Jin-Ho (Born December 1, 1961) is a female South Korean archer and Olympic medalist. She competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where she won an individual bronze medal, and an additional two medals in the 1986 Asian Games. She currently teaches at the Korea National Sport University.