Queen's Lane Coffee House is an historic coffee house dating from 1654, the second oldest still in existence in Oxford, England. It is situated on the north side of the High Street on the corner with Queen's Lane, hence the name. It is popular with both Oxford University and Oxford Brookes students and tourists.
Close by are both The Queen's College to the west and St Edmund Hall to the north.
In 2009 it rebranded itself as "QL", and has a branch with this name in the Headington suburb of Oxford. Another branch that had opened in Jericho is now closed.
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