Hanul lui Manuc to open garden and oriental restaurant this summer
Hanul lui Manuc (Manuc's Inn), one of the most famous XIXth
century Bucharest landmarks, is starting to come back to life
following an around two million-euro investment in
reconditioning.
The inn's heir, Şerban Cantacuzino, plans to open the inner beer
garden and an oriental restaurant by the middle of the year, and
later to open a boutique hotel and the inn's famous wine cellar
(restaurant). In order for these investments to take shape, two
coffee shops and a bistro connected to the Manuc name have already
been opened on the ground floor of the inn, which overlook Splaiul
Unirii Blvd. Apart from them, no outside sign suggests that the inn
might be open for business, a situation that has been going on for
years. If you go in, however, the setting is being created for
clients to enjoy a pig on a spit and a cold pint of beer
again.
'For four years we had to clean, do measurements, make projects,
get permits. (...)," Şerban Cantacuzino, who received the inn back
in the beginning of 2007 by a final and binding decision of the
High Court of Cassation and Justice. The building had been
nationalised in 1950 by the communist regime.