Borza Tibor (szerk.): A Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum évkönyve 1970 (Budapest, Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum, 1970)

Gyenes József: Szállodák Pesten a XIX. században

papers, foreign travellers wrote about the new hotel with great satisfaction. János Bartl famed coffee-maker ran the hotel who turned the old café into the hotel No 1 of Pest. In 1849 at the time of the Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence, the Austrian General Hentzi had the building bombarded beyond reason and it was reduced to ashes. The building then in Móric Wodianer's property was again reerected to be a four-storied building. This was followed by an even and from the point of view of business a placid semicentury. Ferenc Deák, the famous Hungarian politician lived in the hotel from 1854 to 1874. At the end of the century monarchs too were received at the hotel, where leading personalities of the hotel and catering trade worked. So the last famous occupant at the hotel was Ede Palkovits, a past-master of the Hungarian cooks. In the First World War the hotel underwent a crisis. In 1916 it ceased to work as a hotel and from that time on up to its demolition it was used as a bank. It was pulled down in 1940. On the same spot stands today an institute for design next to the Municipal Concert Hall. 272