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'''Casa Capșa''' is a historic restaurant in [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]], first established in 1852. At various times it has also included a hotel; most recently, it reopened as a 61-room hotel 17 June 2003.<ref name="history">[http://www.capsa.ro/history.html Capşa Hotel History]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} on Casa Capșa's official site. Accessed 17 March 2006.</ref> |
'''Casa Capșa''' is a historic restaurant in [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]], first established in 1852. At various times it has also included a hotel; most recently, it reopened as a 61-room hotel 17 June 2003.<ref name="history">[http://www.capsa.ro/history.html Capşa Hotel History]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} on Casa Capșa's official site. Accessed 17 March 2006.</ref> |
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"…long a symbol of Bucharest for its inhabitants… Capșa is not only associated with its exquisite pastry products, but also for a hectic literary life of yore… a welcoming place for Romanian writers where they could meet, talk and…associate." |
"…long a symbol of Bucharest for its inhabitants… Capșa is not only associated with its exquisite pastry products, but also for a hectic literary life of yore… a welcoming place for Romanian writers where they could meet, talk and…associate." |
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<ref name="radio">[http://www.rri.ro/index.php?lmb=4&art=9514 The Capşa Coffee House] {{ |
<ref name="radio">[http://www.rri.ro/index.php?lmb=4&art=9514 The Capşa Coffee House] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060908115637/http://www.rri.ro/index.php?lmb=4&art=9514 |date=September 8, 2006 }} on [[Radio Romania International]]. Last ellipsis ("and…associate") in original. Accessed March 17, 2006. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060908115637/http://www.rri.ro/index.php?lmb=4&art=9514 |date=September 8, 2006 }}</ref> |
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The restaurant stands on [[Calea Victoriei]] at the corner of Edgar Quinet Street, across from the Hotel Capitol and diagonally across from the [[Cercul Militar Naţional]]. |
The restaurant stands on [[Calea Victoriei]] at the corner of Edgar Quinet Street, across from the Hotel Capitol and diagonally across from the [[Cercul Militar Naţional]]. |
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== The restaurant, confectionery, and coffee house == |
== The restaurant, confectionery, and coffee house == |
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In 1852, Anton and Vasile Capșa founded the first confectionery shop on Calea Victoriei, somewhat north of the present Casa Capșa, which was founded by their younger brother Grigore Capșa (1841-1902) in 1868.<ref name="history"/><ref name="radio">[http://www.rri.ro/index.php?lmb=4&art=9514 The Capşa Coffee House] {{ |
In 1852, Anton and Vasile Capșa founded the first confectionery shop on Calea Victoriei, somewhat north of the present Casa Capșa, which was founded by their younger brother Grigore Capșa (1841-1902) in 1868.<ref name="history"/><ref name="radio">[http://www.rri.ro/index.php?lmb=4&art=9514 The Capşa Coffee House] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060908115637/http://www.rri.ro/index.php?lmb=4&art=9514 |date=September 8, 2006 }} on [[Radio Romania International]]. Accessed March 17, 2006.</ref> Anton and Vasile had financed Grigore through four years of courses at the renowned ''Boissier'' in [[Paris]], where he turned down an opportunity to become the supplier for the [[France|French]] Imperial Court.<ref name="Ionita">Mioara Ioniță, cited at [http://www.rri.ro/index.php?lmb=4&art=9514 The Capşa Coffee House] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060908115637/http://www.rri.ro/index.php?lmb=4&art=9514 |date=September 8, 2006 }} on [[Radio Romania International]]. Accessed March 17, 2006.</ref> The French-inspired confectionery of Casa Capșa soon established a continent-wide reputation. The business expanded in 1881 to a full-service restaurant, at a time when quality restaurants along [[Western Europe]]an lines were still quite a rarity in Romania.<ref name="history"/><ref name="radio"/> |
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In December 1916, during [[World War I]], following the [[Battle of Bucharest]] and the occupation of the city by the [[Central Powers]], the restaurant was requisitioned by troops of the [[Kingdom of Bulgaria]]'s [[Bulgarian Land Forces|army]]. Reportedly, these left the place in a deplorable condition for an extended period of time.<ref>{{ro icon}} Dorina Tomescu, [http://www.historia.ro/node/2671 "Nemţii interzic bucureştenilor să se mai urce în trăsură"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115054117/http://www.historia.ro/node/2671 |date=November 15, 2013 }}, ''Historia'', November 1, 2010; accessed November 16, 2013</ref> Casa Capșa invented the all-[[chocolate]] [[Joffre cake]] in honor of a visit to Romania by [[Joseph Joffre]] after the war, and they were the first to introduce [[ice cream]] to the country.<ref name="radio"/> |
In December 1916, during [[World War I]], following the [[Battle of Bucharest]] and the occupation of the city by the [[Central Powers]], the restaurant was requisitioned by troops of the [[Kingdom of Bulgaria]]'s [[Bulgarian Land Forces|army]]. Reportedly, these left the place in a deplorable condition for an extended period of time.<ref>{{ro icon}} Dorina Tomescu, [http://www.historia.ro/node/2671 "Nemţii interzic bucureştenilor să se mai urce în trăsură"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115054117/http://www.historia.ro/node/2671 |date=November 15, 2013 }}, ''Historia'', November 1, 2010; accessed November 16, 2013</ref> Casa Capșa invented the all-[[chocolate]] [[Joffre cake]] in honor of a visit to Romania by [[Joseph Joffre]] after the war, and they were the first to introduce [[ice cream]] to the country.<ref name="radio"/> |
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[[File:Bucuresti, Romania, CAPSA (interior 6).JPG|thumb|left|Interior of Casa Capșa]] |
[[File:Bucuresti, Romania, CAPSA (interior 6).JPG|thumb|left|Interior of Casa Capșa]] |
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The coffee house, established 1891, was an important literary and artistic gathering place, but never turned a profit, "because the writers and artists who went there usually ordered mineral water and coffee and made them last for hours on end."<ref name="Ionita"/> In contrast to the elegant restaurant and confectioner, the coffee house had simple, uncovered wooden tables. [[Tudor Arghezi]] referred to it as an "Academy"; one could make a literary reputation by reading one's texts there.<ref name="Ionita"/> Actors also were among the regulars: at the time the [[Romanian National Theatre]] was nearly across the street, adjacent to the Terasa Oteteleșanu, now the site of the [[Palatul Telefoanelor]].<ref>[http://www.maerlant.be/cesiexhibit/context/list.htm#nota10 List of Names and Places Explained: The Telephone Palace] {{ |
The coffee house, established 1891, was an important literary and artistic gathering place, but never turned a profit, "because the writers and artists who went there usually ordered mineral water and coffee and made them last for hours on end."<ref name="Ionita"/> In contrast to the elegant restaurant and confectioner, the coffee house had simple, uncovered wooden tables. [[Tudor Arghezi]] referred to it as an "Academy"; one could make a literary reputation by reading one's texts there.<ref name="Ionita"/> Actors also were among the regulars: at the time the [[Romanian National Theatre]] was nearly across the street, adjacent to the Terasa Oteteleșanu, now the site of the [[Palatul Telefoanelor]].<ref>[http://www.maerlant.be/cesiexhibit/context/list.htm#nota10 List of Names and Places Explained: The Telephone Palace] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312035635/http://www.maerlant.be/cesiexhibit/context/list.htm#nota10 |date=March 12, 2007 }}, in ''Bucharest Between the Wars: A Modernity With Fringes'', Romanian Academy Library, accessed 4 January 2006.</ref> |
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When the [[Romanian Communist Party]] took power in 1948, they closed Casa Capșa. The restaurant operated during most of the [[Communist Romania|communist era]] as the "Bucharest Restaurant", regaining the Capșa name in 1984.<ref name="Ionita"/> It was at the Capșa that the poet [[Nicolae Labiș]] stood up in November 1956 and loudly recited [[Mihai Eminescu]]'s banned patriotic poem "Doina"; a few weeks later, after spending some time at the Capșa, Labiș was fatally hit by a tram, just a short distance away.<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.jurnalul.ro/articol_60350/nod_in_calea_nemuririi.html "Nod in calea nemuririi"] {{ |
When the [[Romanian Communist Party]] took power in 1948, they closed Casa Capșa. The restaurant operated during most of the [[Communist Romania|communist era]] as the "Bucharest Restaurant", regaining the Capșa name in 1984.<ref name="Ionita"/> It was at the Capșa that the poet [[Nicolae Labiș]] stood up in November 1956 and loudly recited [[Mihai Eminescu]]'s banned patriotic poem "Doina"; a few weeks later, after spending some time at the Capșa, Labiș was fatally hit by a tram, just a short distance away.<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.jurnalul.ro/articol_60350/nod_in_calea_nemuririi.html "Nod in calea nemuririi"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303211329/http://www.jurnalul.ro/articol_60350/nod_in_calea_nemuririi.html |date=March 3, 2016 }}, by Carmen Dragomir, ''Jurnalul Național'', August 28, 2006</ref><ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.agonia.ro/index.php/essay/218216/index.html "Nicolae Labiş a fost tras de palton?"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722041552/http://www.agonia.ro/index.php/essay/218216/index.html |date=July 22, 2012 }}, by Camelian Propinațiu, ''Revista Agero''</ref> |
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The ''In Your Pocket'' guide series describes it as having been "…the chosen venue for the beautiful people at the turn of the [19th] century… it degenerated into a Communist party haunt for the illiterate and intellectually unendowed party bosses." <ref>[http://www.inyourpocket.com/romania/bucharest/en/venue?id=ROBUENR0042 Casa Capşa] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051226051416/http://www.inyourpocket.com/romania/bucharest/en/venue?id=ROBUENR0042 |date=December 26, 2005 }} on InYourPocket.com. Accessed March 17, 2006.</ref> Mioara Ioniță writes, "Its fame remains, but it has lost some of its pre-war glamour. It exists as such, but the spirit that animated it has vanished."<ref name="Ionita"/> |
The ''In Your Pocket'' guide series describes it as having been "…the chosen venue for the beautiful people at the turn of the [19th] century… it degenerated into a Communist party haunt for the illiterate and intellectually unendowed party bosses." <ref>[http://www.inyourpocket.com/romania/bucharest/en/venue?id=ROBUENR0042 Casa Capşa] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051226051416/http://www.inyourpocket.com/romania/bucharest/en/venue?id=ROBUENR0042 |date=December 26, 2005 }} on InYourPocket.com. Accessed March 17, 2006.</ref> Mioara Ioniță writes, "Its fame remains, but it has lost some of its pre-war glamour. It exists as such, but the spirit that animated it has vanished."<ref name="Ionita"/> |
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Casa Capșa is a historic restaurant in Bucharest, Romania, first established in 1852. At various times it has also included a hotel; most recently, it reopened as a 61-room hotel 17 June 2003.[1] "…long a symbol of Bucharest for its inhabitants… Capșa is not only associated with its exquisite pastry products, but also for a hectic literary life of yore… a welcoming place for Romanian writers where they could meet, talk and…associate." [2]
The restaurant stands on Calea Victoriei at the corner of Edgar Quinet Street, across from the Hotel Capitol and diagonally across from the Cercul Militar Naţional.
The restaurant, confectionery, and coffee house
In 1852, Anton and Vasile Capșa founded the first confectionery shop on Calea Victoriei, somewhat north of the present Casa Capșa, which was founded by their younger brother Grigore Capșa (1841-1902) in 1868.[1][2] Anton and Vasile had financed Grigore through four years of courses at the renowned Boissier in Paris, where he turned down an opportunity to become the supplier for the French Imperial Court.[3] The French-inspired confectionery of Casa Capșa soon established a continent-wide reputation. The business expanded in 1881 to a full-service restaurant, at a time when quality restaurants along Western European lines were still quite a rarity in Romania.[1][2]
In December 1916, during World War I, following the Battle of Bucharest and the occupation of the city by the Central Powers, the restaurant was requisitioned by troops of the Kingdom of Bulgaria's army. Reportedly, these left the place in a deplorable condition for an extended period of time.[4] Casa Capșa invented the all-chocolate Joffre cake in honor of a visit to Romania by Joseph Joffre after the war, and they were the first to introduce ice cream to the country.[2]
The coffee house, established 1891, was an important literary and artistic gathering place, but never turned a profit, "because the writers and artists who went there usually ordered mineral water and coffee and made them last for hours on end."[3] In contrast to the elegant restaurant and confectioner, the coffee house had simple, uncovered wooden tables. Tudor Arghezi referred to it as an "Academy"; one could make a literary reputation by reading one's texts there.[3] Actors also were among the regulars: at the time the Romanian National Theatre was nearly across the street, adjacent to the Terasa Oteteleșanu, now the site of the Palatul Telefoanelor.[5]
When the Romanian Communist Party took power in 1948, they closed Casa Capșa. The restaurant operated during most of the communist era as the "Bucharest Restaurant", regaining the Capșa name in 1984.[3] It was at the Capșa that the poet Nicolae Labiș stood up in November 1956 and loudly recited Mihai Eminescu's banned patriotic poem "Doina"; a few weeks later, after spending some time at the Capșa, Labiș was fatally hit by a tram, just a short distance away.[6][7]
The In Your Pocket guide series describes it as having been "…the chosen venue for the beautiful people at the turn of the [19th] century… it degenerated into a Communist party haunt for the illiterate and intellectually unendowed party bosses." [8] Mioara Ioniță writes, "Its fame remains, but it has lost some of its pre-war glamour. It exists as such, but the spirit that animated it has vanished."[3]
The hotel
The enterprise was expanded in 1886 to include the Capșa Hotel, initially a guest house for members of parliament from out of town.[2] The French manager had formerly managed the Hôtel Café Anglais in Paris. In 1908, the British magazine John Bull ranked it "among the best hotels in the world". According to the revived hotel's web site, "It was considered for a long time the only suitable residence of the artists, rich and aristocratic families or high rank politiciens [sic] and diplomats visiting Romania,"[1] a role it would eventually yield to the Athénée Palace.
Among the hotel's guests in its heyday were German Kaisers Wilhelm I and Wilhelm II; Austro-Hungarian emperor Franz Josef I; several members of the Imperial Russian royal family, including Tsar Alexander II; all four Romanian monarchs and their queens consort; kings of Greece, Serbia, and Bulgaria; and such other notables as Josephine Baker, Sarah Bernhardt, Enrico Caruso, George Enescu, W. Averell Harriman, Józef Piłsudski, and Raymond Poincaré.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e Capşa Hotel History[permanent dead link] on Casa Capșa's official site. Accessed 17 March 2006.
- ^ a b c d e The Capşa Coffee House Archived September 8, 2006, at the Wayback Machine on Radio Romania International. Last ellipsis ("and…associate") in original. Accessed March 17, 2006. Archived September 8, 2006, at the Wayback Machine Cite error: The named reference "radio" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ a b c d e Mioara Ioniță, cited at The Capşa Coffee House Archived September 8, 2006, at the Wayback Machine on Radio Romania International. Accessed March 17, 2006.
- ^ Template:Ro icon Dorina Tomescu, "Nemţii interzic bucureştenilor să se mai urce în trăsură" Archived November 15, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, Historia, November 1, 2010; accessed November 16, 2013
- ^ List of Names and Places Explained: The Telephone Palace Archived March 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, in Bucharest Between the Wars: A Modernity With Fringes, Romanian Academy Library, accessed 4 January 2006.
- ^ Template:Ro icon "Nod in calea nemuririi" Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, by Carmen Dragomir, Jurnalul Național, August 28, 2006
- ^ Template:Ro icon "Nicolae Labiş a fost tras de palton?" Archived July 22, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, by Camelian Propinațiu, Revista Agero
- ^ Casa Capşa Archived December 26, 2005, at the Wayback Machine on InYourPocket.com. Accessed March 17, 2006.
External links
- Casa Capşa Hotel (official site)