Brewer's: Garraway's

i.e. Garraway's coffee-house, in Exchange Alley. It existed for 216 years, and here tea was sold, in 1657, for 16s. up to 50s. a pound. The house no longer exists.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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