Hilton debuts its newest restaurant, CafAfA© Athenee

Newsroom 27/09/2010 | 15:21

Café Athenee opened last week, after the completion of the renovation works scheduled for 2010 at Athenee Palace Hilton. When asked about the investment in the café, Linda Griffin, the newly appointed general manager of the hotel, disclosed only the total sum invested by Ana Hotels this year for the hotel’s renovation, EUR 2 million. The food & beverage section of the hotel aims, however, to achieve a 10 percent business increase for the following year, as 40 percent of the hotel’s business comes from food & beverage.

The 200-sqm location’s menu focuses on classical European dishes and beverages, as well as Hilton-specific cuisine.The opening of the Café Athenee completes the refurbishment of the hotel’s ground floor, along with the new main lobby and spruced up colonnades. Griffin has also said that the renovation works will continue in early 2011, when the hotel’s main restaurant, Roberto’s, will get a facelift for its Italian concept. The ground floor shop in the Calea Victoriei hotel will open sometime in November or December this year and is rumored to be a Prada store.

Corina Dumitrescu