Pastry shop, Café Sacher opens its first Italian restaurant in Trieste
Lovers of Sacher cake? Hold on tight, then. A Trieste will open its doors the first Café Sacher in Italya branch of the famous restaurant in Vienna famous for serving the dessert in its original version, that of the inventor Franz Sacher. A must see in the Austrian capital for travelers with a sweet tooth. Now, however, Sacher lovers can walk a few kilometers less to enjoy their favorite dessert. The Café Sacher in Trieste will be located in the very central via Dante and the inauguration is scheduled before Christmas 2022.
In Trieste the first Café Sacher in Italy
The idea of inaugurating the first Italian Café Sacher in Trieste came to Austrian entrepreneurs Dizzi Alfons And Erich Bernhardt, both architects. “The idea of opening a Sacher Café in Trieste was born almost a year ago – Alfons told the newspaper The small – and found concreteness when he closed the beautiful shop in Rosini (shoe shop ed), leaving free those wonderful spaces that go well with our project“.
After finding the agreement with the property owner and having obtained the license from the Sacher familythe project has come to life and will see the light a 2022 fine. Sara the third place in the world to be able to boast the prestigious signafter the historic Café in Vienna and a store opened in Tokyo.
What will be the first Italian Café Sacher
Also in the “little Vienna by the sea”, As Trieste has been renamed by some by virtue of its resemblance to the Austrian capital, you can taste the real Sacher. The chocolate cake with apricot jam filling will be served in a place it should have 50 seats inside and the same number outside. Customers will be able to buy it both sliced and whole and packaged in the unmistakable wooden box with golden corners.
Alongside the flagship product, they will be proposed also other Sacher-branded sweets. At the Café you can also have lunch with an Austrian dish, such as veal goulash or “Sacher Würste”. The menu will then include Viennese coffees such as the melange, the kleine Brauner or the Anna Sacher coffee. Just to Anna Sacher – Franz Sacher’s daughter-in-law – the venue will be dedicated, in particular “to his entrepreneurial ability, his determination and his good taste”, Alfons specified to the Piccolo.
The figure of Anna Sacher
In fact, Anna Sacher played a decisive role in the growth of the fame of the Café Sacher in Vienna. The restaurant is located inside theSacher hotelstructure from her husband Eduard SacherFranz’s son, in 1876 after having perfected the cake recipe by working in the pastry shop Demel. It was she, after the death of the two men, who took over the reins of the hotel and managed it until her disappearance in 1930. However, her management to her high standards caused the bankruptcy of the hotel which, after the bankruptcy, was taken over in 1934 by the Gürtler family which still owns it today.
The history of the Sacher cake
Taking a few more steps back in history, the birth of the beloved cake is due to Franz Sacher, the protagonist of a curious episode of “sliding doors”. In 1832, in the middle of the Restoration, Franz found himself as an apprentice cook, at just 16 years olda prepare an important dinner in the Viennese residence of the then Austrian canceller Clemens von Metternichas the permanent pastry chef was ill.
For the occasion the noble wanted a special dessert, a request that Sacher fulfilled by serving the dessert that would take his name. From then on he started to make a career by working in different cities, becoming rich and famous. Some sources say that this fascinating story was, at least in part, invented by his son Eduard to advertise his hotel. Whatever the story went, Franz Sacher went down in history as the father of the homonymous cake.