Casa Capșa
Historic confectionery, restaurant and hotel, once the writers' café of the royal-era capital.
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This guide to Casa Capșa on Bucharest's Calea Victoriei follows the coffee house Grigore Capșa added to his celebrated confectionery in eighteen ninety-one, and the writers and artists who made it their second home. It weighs a business that sold very little against the reputations made and broken at its tables, with the poet Tudor Arghezi among the regulars. Best heard standing at the corner, facing the windows on Calea Victoriei.
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