Café Rouge [SEP] inception
Café Rouge
Café Rouge is a French-styled restaurant chain, with over 120 sites across the UK. Café Rouge is part of a bigger restaurant network owned by Casual Dining Group Ltd.
History.
Café Rouge was founded by Roger Myers and Karen Jones, in Richmond, London as a small restaurant chain in 1989. As the brand grew, Myers and Jones incorporated the chain into a larger restaurant group: the Pelican Group. In July 1996, Whitbread purchased Pelican Group - comprising 110 restaurants under the Dôme,
Cafe Rouge (Hotel Pennsylvania)
The Café Rouge was the main restaurant in New York's Hotel Pennsylvania. It now operates as a multi-purpose venue, known as Station 32.
Construction.
The Café Rouge (as well as the rest of the interior and exterior of Hotel Pennsylvania) was designed by the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White. It measured 58 feet by 142 feet, with a ceiling height of 22 feet. making the Café Rouge the largest of its kind anywhere at