Monte Carlo restaurant, Cișmigiu garden emblem. Shot down by the great earthquake, restored by the communists, reinvented now
Monte Carlo restaurant, Cișmigiu garden emblem. PHOTO Credit: Union of Architects of Romania (UAR), Photos and Slide Archive
The story of the Monte Carlo restaurant in Cișmigiu Garden begins in 1926, when the architect Baloșin projects a building in a neo -Romanian style, worthy of the boyar elegance of the interwar Bucharest.
A beautiful construction that would fall to the earthquake of November 1940.
But, in the 1960s, it was restored from the foundations of the communist regime. It was when Elisabeta Boulevard was called Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej Boulevard. But the name “Monte Carlo” was too bourgeois and too exotic for those times, so it was replaced with “Braseria Cișmigiu”, “important place of recreation” of the working people.
Earlier this year, Cișmigiu/ Monte Carlo restaurant was taken over by the City Grill group. The new concept concerns generations Z and Y, a transformation project announced to be different from the rest of the restaurants owned by City Grill.
Discover, on B365.ro, the history including in images of a symbol of Cișmigiu Park and Bucharest.
