[5] In 1897, Ciro, an Italian-born Egyptian headwaiter, in Monte Carlo, opened his first restaurant within the fashionable narrow radius of a hundred yards around the square, fronting the casino, on the Galerie Charles III,[5] next to his former place of employment.
Ciro's became a European high society restaurant chain with branches in Monte Carlo,[12] Paris, London[13] (where Audrey Hepburn danced before her film career[14]), and Deauville.
..." (Ross Bolton)[26]"Louis Adlon, grandson of the proprietor of Berlin’s Hotel Adlon opened Hollywood’s first iteration of Ciro’s in 1934[27][28] (with Erich Alexander[29] and George Sorel[30]) Located on Hollywood Boulevard, the club was informally part of a chain with locations in London, Paris and Berlin.
"[31]In May 1915, Ciro’s London branch opened, as a private club, in Orange Street, near the back of the National Gallery.
A workers' newspaper commented:... if that's the way to win the war, and denotes a burning enthusiasm, the Tory press is right; Australia hasn't been doing her best, for she has scarcely got past beer by the jugful.