Analogous to the Café de la Rotonde and Zielony Balonik,[1] the cafe was named after Maksas Konradas (Max Conrad), its owner.

[6] In 1938–1939 the cafe experienced another reconstruction, after which it received significant improvements to spacing and decoration, along with a plaster statue of a girl made by sculptor Bronius Pundzius [lt].

[4] In 1986 a renovation contest was announced, which was won by architects Antanas Tarnauskas and Dalia Laurinatienė, as well as sculptor Vytautas Narutis [lt].

The cafe was famous as a meeting place for the core of the Kaunas elite, artists, intellectuals, and influential public figures.

As such it gained a more mystical reputation for being a space for only selected people to gather in, although casual visitors would also wander in, but mostly to see the "celebrities" visiting the place.

[2] Although the cafe was popular amongst many intellectuals, it was not profitable due to the visitors only ordering mostly coffee and cake, and for most of the time discussing with acquaintances rather than eating meals.

[6] The cafe gave rise to the rural Lithuanian artistic society to develop their individualistic view of art, characteristic of the urban intellectuals.

Other famous visitors of the cafe included Vincas Krėvė, Balys Sruoga, Juozas Keliuotas, Petras Cvirka, Liudas Truikys, Juozapas Albinas Herbačiauskas, and others.

Only Petras Cvirka mixed among other people, although he preferred to choose the company of Antanas Venclova, Broniaus Raila, Kostas Korsakas and other like-minded artists and strongly spoke out against those who spread rumors about his favoring the nationalists.

According to the sculptor Stasys Žirgulis [lt], after the disappearance Tulpė, the inhabitants of Kaunas fiercely criticized the then city government for allowing the destruction of the historic cafe.