Café & Conditorei 1842
Neo-baroque confectionery on the site of a medieval patrician house, serving hot chocolate since the eighteen forties.
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This guide to Café & Conditorei 1842 in Zurich begins in 1622, with a precious book of medieval love songs hurried out of Heidelberg ahead of Catholic troops, and a house whose thirteenth-century rooms may have seen it made. You'll meet the Manesse family of Zurich knights and the poets painted in its pages, including one riding a mule. Best heard outside on the lane, looking up at the house.
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