Answers.Body: <p>The question is very broad - A lot of the answer would depend on a more specific geographical location and/or a narrower time-window.</p>
  
  <p>For example in France, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavern" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Taverns</a> and inns (not restaurants) were the only places for common people to eat-out all of the way up until the late 18th century, according to the wiki. This would seem to make them THE hot-spot in that region throughout that time...</p>
  
  <p>It's certainly popular in medieval arts to make an omage to taverns and inns in creative works:</p>
  
  <p>1.) <a href="http://www.larsdatter.com/taverns.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Paintings</a></p>
  
  <p>2.) Many poems of the time: <a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Archpoet" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The Archpoet</a> wishes to die in a tavern in his "Confession". See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trouble_at_a_Tavern" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Trafferth mewn Tafarn</a> &amp; <a href="https://archive.org/stream/dafyddapgwilympo00dafyuoft/dafyddapgwilympo00dafyuoft_djvu.txt" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Dafydd ap Gwilym</a></p>
  
  <p>3.) There are likely more <a href="http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/medieval-drinking-song/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">drinking songs</a> from the Middle Ages than one could ever hope to discover and research in a lifetime...</p>
  
  <p>Given the popularity of alcohol in general, all of this would suggest that drinking establishments have been happening places before, during, and after the Middle Ages... Prob in Europe, and everywhere else... ;P</p>
  
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Body: <p>I am interested in knowing how popular were drinking establishments (or more commonly known as taverns) in Europe during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages" rel="noreferrer">Middle Ages</a> (5th-15th century)?</p>
  
  <p>Did they exist during the entire Middle Ages or not? Did every town have a tavern?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: I didn't want to answer since this is such a broad question and google had so much information that I gave up. Here is a good overview http://cwoodlibrary.weebly.com/uploads/5/2/8/9/5289432/inns_and_taverns_in_the_middle_ages.pdf
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Comments.Text: This is a question I asked at history stack exchange https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/17842/how-prominent-were-taverns-in-medieval-europe
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ThreadText: # How prominent were drinking (alcohol) establishments in the Middle Ages?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-04-13)
  
  I am interested in knowing how popular were drinking establishments (or more commonly known as taverns) in Europe during the [Middle Ages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages) (5th-15th century)?
  
  Did they exist during the entire Middle Ages or not? Did every town have a tavern?
  
  **Tags:** history, alcohol, europe
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: I didn't want to answer since this is such a broad question and google had so much information that I gave up. Here is a good overview http://cwoodlibrary.weebly.com/uploads/5/2/8/9/5289432/inns_and_taverns_in_the_middle_ages.pdf  
  > **username_2**: This is a question I asked at history stack exchange https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/17842/how-prominent-were-taverns-in-medieval-europe  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2017-04-14. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  The question is very broad - A lot of the answer would depend on a more specific geographical location and/or a narrower time-window.
  
  For example in France, [Taverns](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavern) and inns (not restaurants) were the only places for common people to eat-out all of the way up until the late 18th century, according to the wiki. This would seem to make them THE hot-spot in that region throughout that time...
  
  It's certainly popular in medieval arts to make an omage to taverns and inns in creative works:
  
  1.) [Paintings](http://www.larsdatter.com/taverns.htm)
  
  2.) Many poems of the time: [The Archpoet](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Archpoet) wishes to die in a tavern in his "Confession". See also: [Trafferth mewn Tafarn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trouble_at_a_Tavern) & [Dafydd ap Gwilym](https://archive.org/stream/dafyddapgwilympo00dafyuoft/dafyddapgwilympo00dafyuoft_djvu.txt)
  
  3.) There are likely more [drinking songs](http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/medieval-drinking-song/) from the Middle Ages than one could ever hope to discover and research in a lifetime...
  
  Given the popularity of alcohol in general, all of this would suggest that drinking establishments have been happening places before, during, and after the Middle Ages... Prob in Europe, and everywhere else... ;P
  
  
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