Angelina (tea house)

Angelina
Entrance
Restaurant information
Established 1903
Current owner(s) Groupe Bertrand
Previous owner(s) Antoine Rumpelmayer
Food type Pâtisserie
Street address 226 Rue de Rivoli
City Paris
Postal/ZIP Code 75001
Country France
Coordinates 48°51′54″N 2°19′42″E / 48.8649357°N 2.3284259°E / 48.8649357; 2.3284259Coordinates: 48°51′54″N 2°19′42″E / 48.8649357°N 2.3284259°E / 48.8649357; 2.3284259
Other locations Boulevard Haussmann
Palace of Versailles
Musée du Luxembourg
Rue du Bac

Angelina is a famous tea house located at 226 Rue de Rivoli in the 1st arrondissement of Paris.

Angelina is known primarily for its almost pudding-like hot chocolate (chocolat l'Africain) and for its Mont Blanc dessert[1]. The name is also marketed internationally for sweets.

The interior design was by French architect Édouard-Jean Niermans in the Belle Époque style.

History

The salon was founded in 1903 by the Austrian confectioner Antoine Rumpelmayer (1832 – 1914), and originally named eponymously "Rumpelmeyer". Rumpelmayer's son René, and from 1916 his widow Angelina, continued the café and pâtisserie. It is named for their daughter. It became an institution frequented by elite Parisians, including Marcel Proust and Coco Chanel.[2]

The restaurant was owned by the Rumpelmayer family until 1963. In 2005, Angelina was taken over by Bertrand Restauration[3], a division of Groupe Bertrand, a French company, who have expanded the chain in the Middle East and Far East.

Other venues

The original café is at Tuileries. Another boutique is at the Galeries Lafayette on the Boulevard Haussmann, and a Boutique Angelina in the shopping mall at Palais des congrès de Paris. In 2009, an Angelina café was opened at Petit Trianon in the Palace of Versailles. Two years later, another was opened there, in the Pavillon d'Orléans. There is another at the Musée du Luxembourg and a Boutique Angelina at 108 Rue du Bac.

References

  1. ↑ (in French)+(in English) Full Menu - Official Website
  2. ↑ Levine, Ed (26 February 2003). "Winter Has a Dark Side: What Luck". New York Times. Retrieved 3 March 2009. Marcel Proust and Coco Chanel were dedicated fans
  3. ↑ (in French) Luxe : Salon de thé - Bertrand Restauration

Further reading

  • Haslinger, Ingrid; Patka, Erika; Jesch, Marie-Luise (1996). Der süße Luxus. Die Hofzuckerbäckerei und die ehemaligen k. u. k. Hofzuckerbäcker Demel, Gerbeaud, Gerstner, Heiner, Rumpelmayer, Sluka (in German). Vienna: Kulturkreises Looshaus – Geyer & Reisser. ISBN 3-9500302-4-7.
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