Café Gerbeaud

Café Gerbeaud, situated at Vörösmarty tér 7 in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, is a traditional coffeehouse opened in 1858.

In order to be closer to the city center, Kugler in 1870 moved the store to Vörösmarty tér, called "Gizella Square" at the time,[2] on the ground floor of the head office of Hungarian Commercial Bank of Pest.

In 1882 while travelling in Paris, Kugler first met Emil Gerbeaud and immediately recognized his talent and spirit of enterprise.

Emil Gerbeaud, descended from a confectionery family, was born in Geneva and gained experience in Germany, France and England.

Since his clientele loved the paper boxes for takeaway pies that were already introduced by Henrik Kugler, Gerbeaud continued with this tradition and started to design these himself.

For the interior design of his confectionery, Gerbeaud in 1910 took advice from Henrik Darilek who mainly used marble, exotic woods and bronze.

The traces of the last 50 years have thus disappeared, and today the café shines in the style built by Emil Gerbeaud.