From now on, I will never drink the same coffee of Monet again, and I will never listen to a century of open-air classical music again, Venice’s biennial global The event can only stay in memory forever. This article from the micro-channel public number: Bund TheBund (ID: the-Bund) , Author: Itsuki, title FIG. From: caffeflorian.com
Recently, the oldest café in Italy, the Flora Cafe, will be closed.
It was once one of the “Top Ten Most Beautiful Cafes in the World”. Since its opening, countless cultural celebrities have come here, and they have nurtured many handed down works in the midst of speaking out.
Monet, Andy Warhol, Chaplin, Hemingway are all guests here.
Monet and his wife are in Piazza San Marco next to the cafe
For 300 years, the Flower God Cafe has become the cradle of classic culture, and at the same time it has always been at the forefront of the times, allowing trendy ideas to take root and develop here.
In order to let fans who are blocked at home can also taste the taste of the past, they announced the exclusive recipes of some foods, such as brownies, scones, and Zaletti, a traditional Venetian biscuits in Italy, for fans. Move to the online store, place an order for the ingredients, and make a taste of memories at home.
In addition to food, the official website also lists cultural and creative supplies such as canvas bags and aromatherapy.
Cultural and creative supplies: aromatherapy, canvas bags, etc.
I even moved out the limited design products at the previous Venice Biennale.
Artist specially designed products, souvenir albums, etc.
You can see, Flora CoffeeThe museum is doing its utmost to save itself. At the same time, it also wants to let everyone revisit the store’s past through the online store.
If there are hard-core fans willing to pay a lot of money, maybe they will be more relieved.
Second, cultural and artistic celebrities have witnessed its past glory
On December 29, 1720, the Flower God Cafe officially opened. Only one person can pass the gate, and after entering it is a narrow long hall.
Until the 19th century, it was finally expanded into 4 single rooms: Four Seasons Hall, Oriental Hall, Senate Hall and Celebrity Hall.
The Hall of Fame is full of portraits of Italian celebrities, such as Titian and Marco Polo.
The marble table in the Senate Hall is surrounded by red velvet chairs and sofa seats. The walls and ceilings are decorated with European classicism paintings, and the gaps are covered with gold leaf, revealing a magnificent temperament everywhere.
Inside the Senate Hall
After the opening of the Flower God Cafe, it immediately attracted countless artists.
Monet is its number one fan. He even rented a mansion nearby. In his free time, he wandered to Piazza San Marco for coffee and watching the sunset, and he painted 37 city landscapes in succession, the most famous of which is “The Grand Canal in Venice.”
Monet’s painting “Venice Grand Canal”
Andy Warhol likes to organize his inspiration in the cafe’s outdoor seating, and the canned sketches he drew easily have become a classic pattern in the pop art genre.
Andy Warhol, and his canned graffiti in a cafe
Chaplin enjoys the perfect food with a swipe of a pen and writes compliments. This manuscript has been kept in the cafe to this day.
Chaplin wrote a manuscript and praised the food at the Flower God Cafe
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Mimmo Rotella’s arrangement at the Flower God Cafe and his works
Designer Gaetano Pesce abstracted the sacred Marco Lion, the patron saint of the city of Venice, and combined with the innovative design of the cup, giving birth to a very practical art product.
Gaetano Pesce designed cup
In 2015, Chinese artist Qiu Zhijie’s work “So, We Don’t Wander Around” transformed the cafe into a minimalist pavilion. On the large mirror, there are golden sentences about celebrities.
When people read Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol”, “I will never forget, I will never forget, I cannot forget”, who would have thought that after 5 years, the Flower God Cafe would only Stayed in memory.
Works created by Qiu Zhijie
4. Behind the menu on page 57, is the service that has been passed on for a century
Once, from 9 am to midnight, the old store opened every day to welcome new customers.
After the guests sit down, they will receive a menu with morning tea, noon light meal, afternoon tea, pre-dinner wine, dinner and snacks written in swashes. A total of hundreds of meals, 57 pages, comparable to a mini-collection of Italian food.
There are 3 dishes you can’t miss.
Tiramisu Jelly is a specially limited dessert made by mixing equal amounts of whipped cream with Semifreddo, or frozen custard. No ice scum at the entrance, neither sweet nor greasy, is its highest state.
Tiramisu Jelly
Vanilla ice cream has won the favor of most diners with its mild taste and strong aroma.
Vanilla ice cream
It is worth mentioning the drink Casanova Chocolate, named after a frequent customer in the store, who is also a famous adventurer in Venice, Italy.
Back then, he was about to flee Venice due to heavy debts. Before leaving, he did not forget to come here and hurriedly drank a glass of Espresso.
Traditional hot chocolate contains mint cream and chocolate chips, which has a unique taste.
A cup of hot cake at the Flower God Cafe is 11.5 euros, and a piece of cake is about 14 euros.
BBC TV and celebrity chef Fred Sirieix produced a food documentary “Remarkable Places to Eat”. In the first episode, I went to the Flora Cafe to find out.
The series of actions of the waiters holding the tray high, twisting in front of the diners, and gently putting it down, seemingly simple, actually contains the most classic and strictest service rules of the Flower God Cafe.
The trays in the store are very particular.
The silver tray used in the cafe is a traditional container that has continued over a hundred years ago. There are 6 sizes in total according to the number of meals on each table and the size of the utensils.
Six size trays
After preparing the meals, the main job of the waiter is to put all the meals on the silver trays. The order of the dishes must correspond to the seats of the diners at each table.
This means that at the end of the day, a waiter has to remember the seating order of thousands of customers and the meals they ordered.
The waiter at the Flower God Cafe
The most difficult part of this process is to ensure that the position of each meal cannot be moved during the transportation. Keep one hand or both hands lifted to the table, turn the tray in front of the diners, and then put it down until the corresponding position.
The heaviest tray when full of food is nearly 15 kilograms.
The waiter who looks as light as a swallow may have been practicing for 15 years. This can be distinguished from the costume of the waiter.
Each waiter has a special dress. The novice’s bow tie is white. If you want to be promoted to a senior waiter wearing a black bow tie, it will take at least 10 years.
article from the micro-channel public number: Bund TheBund (ID: the-Bund) , Author: Itsuki