XIX century

Debauve opens his chocolate house on the Rive Gauche

Jean-Baptiste Dalloyau opens the first Maison de gastronomie and invents food to take away

The Breidenbacher Hof opens in Düsseldorf

A widowed descendant renames the shop À la Mère de Famille

The Sanoner family begins at Ortisei; ADLER grows from the inn

Les Deux Magots begins as a novelty and fabric shop named after a play

The Nassauer Hof opens at Wiesbaden beside the springs

The Hotel de Russie opens on the Via del Babuino, its garden laid out by Valadier

Antonio Cova opens a literary café beside La Scala

Percier and Fontaine build the shop at 30 rue des Saints-Pères; royal warrant granted

Antoine-Étienne Dalloyau opens the first Parisian tea room

The Danieli opens in the Palazzo Dandolo, a fourteenth-century house on the Riva

The Promenadenhaus at Baden-Baden is rebuilt as the Kurhaus by Friedrich Weinbrenner, with a casino inside it from the start

Angelo Marchesi opens his pasticceria on via Santa Maria alla Porta, Milan

Weinbrenner's Kurhaus opens at Baden-Baden with a gaming room inside it

Tranquille Yard opens his restaurant on Kuznetsky Most — Yar, the oldest restaurant name in the country

Tremont House opens in Boston on 16 October, by Isaiah Rogers — indoor plumbing, indoor baths and lavatories, a reception area, locked single rooms, free soap and bellboys. The specification of the modern hotel, sixty years before the Savoy

Villa Sant'Andrea is built at Taormina by an English family; it opens as a hotel in 1950

Nadaya Mansuke opens the parent restaurant of Nadaman in Osaka

Iida Shinshichi opens Takashimaya in Kyoto, dealing in used clothing and cotton

Iida Shinshichi opens Takashimaya in Kyoto on 10 January

Jean-Jacques Ducasse buys vineyard parcels from Château Figeac; the land becomes Château Cheval Blanc

Jean-Jacques Ducasse buys vineyard parcels from Château Figeac; the land becomes Cheval Blanc

Adare Manor is begun by the Earl of Dunraven; it opens as a hotel in 1988

Augustus Smith takes the lease of the Isles of Scilly and begins rebuilding Tresco

Des Bergues opens in Geneva, often called the first purpose-built luxury hotel in Europe

Charles-Augustin Meurice opens Le Meurice on the rue de Rivoli — the first Paris palace hotel

Rambagh is built at Jaipur as a garden house for the queen's handmaiden; it becomes the maharaja's residence

Auckland orders a dak bungalow every ten to fifteen miles on the main roads

France bans gambling; the players cross to Baden-Baden and the Kurhaus becomes famous

David Sprüngli founds David Sprüngli & Son in Zurich

James Brown, valet to Lord Byron, opens Brown's in Mayfair

Jacques Bénazet takes the Baden-Baden concession and introduces roulette

The Oberoi Grand opens in Calcutta on Chowringhee

Samuel Cunard founds the line that invents the scheduled ocean crossing — a passage becomes a timetable

The Auckland Hotel opens at Calcutta on 19 November out of David Wilson’s bakery; it becomes the Great Eastern

Shepheard’s opens at Cairo; for a century its terrace is where the imperial world meets

The Bayerischer Hof opens in Munich at Ludwig I's wish for a hotel fit for guests of the court

The Baur au Lac opens on the lake at Zurich

The Quisisana opens at Capri as a sanatorium; it becomes a hotel in 1861

The Astor House opens in Shanghai, the first Western-style hotel in China, bringing the country its first electric light, telephone and film screening

Édouard Bénazet succeeds his father and decides a casino should not be only gambling — the integrated resort, proposed

The Venetian rising: Florian's rooms are turned into an infirmary for the wounded

The Kronenhof opens at Pontresina