{"id":863,"date":"2023-03-13T04:26:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T02:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cosmindragomir.ro\/?p=863"},"modified":"2023-03-13T04:26:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T02:26:05","slug":"hanul-berarilor-casa-oprea-soare-fost-restaurant-bucur-trecut-si-prezent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmindragomir.ro\/en\/2023\/03\/13\/hanul-berarilor-casa-oprea-soare-fost-restaurant-bucur-trecut-si-prezent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brewers' Inn - Casa Oprea Soare (formerly Restaurant Bucur), past and present"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In a socialist advertisement from the early 1970s - with a wording specific to the wooden language of that period - it says the following: "Enjoy the joy of the hours of rest to the fullest at "BUCUR" - restaurant of the Tourism Office of the Municipality of Bucharest, Colonel Poenaru Bordea street no. 2, sector 5 \u2013 culinary specialties, selected wines; open from 10 am to 3 pm; reserve a table in advance by tel. \u2013\u2013\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Bucur restaurant (specifically Romanian) had been opened "in 1969, in a beautiful Br\u00e2ncoven style building, with balconies, period rooms (Romanian, Romanian-Br\u00e2ncoven, Moorish, Oriental) and a beautiful garden" (cf. From the \u015eerban Vod\u0103 Inn to the Intercontinental Hotel<\/em>, by Ion Paraschiv & Trandafir Iliescu, Sport-Turism Publishing House, 1979).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
In that era, there was a real momentum of recovery of some inns that had made a good figure before the establishment of the communist regime, which was proof that in the "age of trustees" things were also moving in the sense of a recovery of commercial sense based on profit (specifically, by the way, to capitalism, but that's another story): "Starting from 1967 and until 1977, the state trade bodies in the Capital carried out a vast action to bring back into the circuit some old commercial fords". (from Op. cit.)<\/em> Of course, the newly established Bucur Restaurant could not fall into this category, but the fact that it had a "ford", as they say, was a certainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We do not know how many of the customers who at that time (and later) crossed the threshold of the Bucur Restaurant - where, among other things, even in the restrictive times of the 80s, beer brands such as Radeberger<\/em>, Budweiser <\/em>or the well-known Polish beer Zywiec<\/em> - they knew that the establishment had been located in Casa Oprea Soare, work of the famous architect Petre Antonescu (1873-1965), a prominent representative of the Neo-Romanian style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In order to somewhat satisfy the curiosity of those interested in the configuration and names of the streets from the different eras in which Casa Oprea Soare was founded, we will start the investigation from a Guide to Bucharest from 1962 (published by Meridiane Publishing House). At that time, Colonel Poenaru Bordea street, on which, at number 2, the Oprea Soare house was located, was surrounded by three architectural monuments: the Operetta Theater (demolished in 1986, during the systematization for the Civic Center), the Capital Court (Palace of Justice ) and the Church of St. Spiridon Vechi (also demolished in the 80s and rebuilt after 1990). The adjacent streets were as follows: Strada Apolodor, Strada Sfin\u021bii Apostoli, Strada Asilul de Noapte, Strada Profesor Gheorghe Danielopol and Strada Artei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
A very interesting thing is related to the fact that the names of the streets and the configuration on the map look almost the same compared to a map of Bucharest from 1934, which shows us that sometimes the changes are not necessarily necessary, even looking at things from the point of view ideological view. Here, therefore, are the names of the streets from 1934: Strada Apolodor, Strada Sfin\u021bii Apostoli, Strada Artei, Strada Profesor Gh. Danielopol (which led to the Street of the Palace of Justice). Number 2 also appears on this map, at the intersection of Apolodor and Colonel Poenaru Bordea streets, where Casa Oprea Soare was located. This whole area belonged, at that time, to Sector III Blue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is worth noting - as we also have data here to inspire our investigation - is that in 1969, the year the Bucur Restaurant was opened, no name change appears in the Street Guide either. An important element that must be added is that the inn that the Tourist Office of the Municipality of Bucharest was proud of operated in a "recovered" house - but which had an ungrateful fate, being nationalized, like so many others, by the communist regime installed after the second world war<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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