Hanul lui Manuc to open garden and oriental restaurant this summer

Hanul lui Manuc (Manuc’s Inn), one of the most famous XIXth century Bucharest landmarks, is starting to come back to life following an around two million-euro investment in reconditioning.
The inn’s heir, Șerban Cantacuzino, plans to open the inner beer garden and an oriental restaurant by the middle of the year, and later to open a boutique hotel and the inn’s famous wine cellar (restaurant). In order for these investments to take shape, two coffee shops and a bistro connected to the Manuc name have already been opened on the ground floor of the inn, which overlook Splaiul Unirii Blvd. Apart from them, no outside sign suggests that the inn might be open for business, a situation that has been going on for years. If you go in, however, the setting is being created for clients to enjoy a pig on a spit and a cold pint of beer again.
‘For four years we had to clean, do measurements, make projects, get permits. (…),” Șerban Cantacuzino, who received the inn back in the beginning of 2007 by a final and binding decision of the High Court of Cassation and Justice. The building had been nationalised in 1950 by the communist regime.