Caru' cu Bere

[2] Nicolae bought the building at 5 Stavropoleos Street in 1897,[2] and made plans to open a restaurant there to expand their business operations.

[3][4] They hired the Austrian architect Siegfrid Kofczinsky to design a restaurant and brewery building in the gothic revival style.

[3] Victor left the establishment in 1912, opening his own brewery and several years later, Nicolae set up Ignat in a wine cellar business.

[1] When the Socialist Republic of Romania was overthrown in 1989, the heirs of the Mircea family began efforts to regain their ownership.

[8] Romanian writer Mateiu Caragiale's frame story, Sub pecetea tainei, is set in Caru' cu Bere.