The
Rainbow
, near the Inner Temple Gate, in Fleet Street, was the second Coffee-house opened in London. It was opened about 1656, by a barber named James Farr, part of the house still being occupied by the bookseller's shop which had been there for at least twenty years before. Farr also, at first, combined his coffee trade with the business of barber, which he had been carrying on under the same roof. Farr was made rich by his Coffee-house, which soon monopolized the
Rainbow
. Its repute was high in the
Spectator's
time; and afterwards, when coffee-houses became taverns, it lived on as a reputable tavern till the present day.