A Madrid grocery hall reopened in 2009 and gave the world the food hall as a destination.
A working production space treated as an exhibition space, for a hundred and fifty years.
Two hundred years after a Napoleonic soldier opened it beside La Scala, the Milanese café became a line item in a luxury conglomerate and started opening in Shanghai.
A royal pharmacist made chocolate discs to hide the taste of a queen's prescriptions, and two centuries later the shop that sold them is still on the same Left Bank street selling the same discs.
Two Milanese counters, two luxury groups, and the same fight twice — with different winners.
Santiago’s market arrived from Glasgow in numbered parts and opened as a national exhibition. The Chilean who put it up is missing from the British account of who built it.
The great hotel dining rooms of Japan are frequently not the hotel's at all: they are old houses in residence, some of them founded before the country had hotels.
This Library is full of hotels that opened restaurants. Here the direction reverses.
Delicatessen, roastery, café and starred restaurant, in the same building behind the Residenz — the last complete survivor of the form that European luxury retail used to take.
One brother took the chocolate factory and built a global brand. The other took the shop on the Paradeplatz. Both are still trading, and only one of them still knows its customers' names.
A tea house founded in 2008 put 1837 on its logo, and the world read it as heritage. The Library records the operation as excellent and the date as a decision.