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Els Quatre Gats Opens in Barcelona's Casa Martí
CONFIRMED75% CONFIDENCE129.3 years agoWikipedia[1] states the day outright: "The café opened on 12 June 1897 in the celebrated Casa Martí".The café that became the meeting room of Catalan modernisme opened on 12 June 1897 in the Casa Martí, a Puig i Cadafalch building in the Gothic Quarter. It lasted only six years in its first run, but in them it hosted Picasso's first solo exhibition and the circle around Rusiñol and Casas - and he drew its menu card.0.71Cafe Batavia Opens on Fatahillah Square
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE32.7 years agoThe article records the restaurant as established in 1993 without a month or day, so the pin takes that year's last day. The building itself is far older than the restaurant in it.[1]Cafe Batavia opened in 1993 in the second-oldest building on Jakarta's old town square, a Dutch colonial house restored as a restaurant, with teak floors, ceiling fans and walls papered in old portraits. It faces the former city hall across the cobbles of Fatahillah Square.0.67Caffè Florian Opens on Piazza San Marco
Caffè Florian, 57, Piazza San Marco, San Marco, Venezia-Murano-Burano, Lido, Venice, Venezia, Veneto, 30124, ItalyCaffè Florian
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE305.7 years agoThe article's infobox gives the year only - founded 1720 - so the pin sits on that year's last day.[1]Floriano Francesconi opened his coffee house under the arcades of Piazza San Marco in 1720, making it one of the oldest cafés in continuous business anywhere. It admitted women when other Venetian cafés did not, which is how Casanova came to be among its regulars, and its orchestra still plays to the square.0.66Demel Opens as a Konditorei by the Hofburg
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE239.7 years agoWikipedia[1] gives the year only - "established in 1786 in Vienna" - with no month or day, so the pin sits on that year's last day.Demel was established in 1786 a few steps from the Hofburg and became confectioner to the imperial court, a title it still puts on its boxes. Its window on the Kohlmarkt and its Anna Torte made it one of the fixtures by which Vienna measures its café culture, and it sits at the centre of a long argument with Hotel Sacher over who may call a cake a Sachertorte.0.66Café Kranzler Opens on Unter den Linden
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE191.7 years agoThe article states it "Opened in 1834 on the Unter den Linden boulevard" with no month or day, so the pin sits on that year's last day. It is placed at the City West rotunda, where the business moved after the war, not at the original Linden address.[1]Café Kranzler opened on Unter den Linden in 1834 and became the Berlin coffeehouse. Destroyed in the war, it was rebuilt on the Kurfürstendamm, where its red-and-white striped rotunda survives as a listed landmark of West Berlin's reconstruction.0.65Café Tortoni Opens on Avenida de Mayo
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE167.7 years agoWikipedia[1] gives the year only - "First opened in 1858 by a French immigrant" - with no month or day, so the pin sits on that year's last day.Café Tortoni first opened in 1858, started by a French immigrant who named it after a Paris cafe, and became the room where Buenos Aires argued about itself - Borges, Gardel and Rubinstein among the regulars whose likenesses now sit at its tables. It still trades on Avenida de Mayo with its original marble, mirrors and tango cellar.0.65Leopold Cafe Opens in Colaba
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE154.7 years agoWikipedia[1] gives the year only - "The Leopold Cafe was founded in 1871 by Iranis" - and its infobox agrees, with no month or day, so the pin sits on that year's last day.Leopold Cafe was founded in Colaba in 1871 by Irani immigrants, part of the wave of Zoroastrian cafes that shaped how Bombay eats out, and has outlasted almost all of them. It became a fixture for travellers along the Causeway, and was one of the sites attacked in November 2008 - it reopened days afterwards and kept the bullet marks in its walls.0.64Antico Caffè Greco Opens on Via dei Condotti
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE265.7 years agoWikipedia[1] says it "opened in 1760 on Via Condotti" and names no month or day, so the pin takes that year's last day.Antico Caffè Greco opened in 1760 a few steps from the Spanish Steps and became the room where the Grand Tour sat down - Keats, Byron, Goethe, Stendhal and Casanova among the names attached to it. It is the oldest cafe in Rome, and has spent recent years fighting its landlord in court over the rent on the premises it has occupied for more than two and a half centuries.0.63Creepies Opens in Chicago
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ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE1.1 years agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as August 2025, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.[1]David and Anna Posey open a French bistro with a Chicago accent on West Randolph Street, run day to day by chef de cuisine Tayler Ploshehanski.0.63Dolfy's Opens in New Orleans
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ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE176 days agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as March 2026, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.[1]Adolfo Garcia Jr. and Sophia Petrou Garcia open a Spanish restaurant on Freret Street built around pintxos and Basque-style wood-fire steak.0.62Savoy Opens Above the Esplanade
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ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE1.1 years agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as July 2025, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.[1]Chef-owner Kari Shaughnessy opens a polished, seasonal restaurant in Carlton, a town of about 2,100 in Oregon's wine country.0.62
