''Angelina'' is a popular

tea house A teahouse or tearoom (also tea room) is an establishment which primarily serves tea and other light refreshments. A tea room may be a room set aside in a hotel, especially for serving afternoon tea, or may be an establishment that only ser ...

and café with several locations in

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and one location in NYC. Angelina is known primarily for its almost pudding-like

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() and for its Mont Blanc dessert. The name is also marketed internationally for sweets.

History

The tea house was founded in 1903 by the Austrian confectioner

Antoine Rumpelmayer Anton Rumpelmayer ( in Pressburg, Austria – in Saint-Martin-Vésubie, France) was an Austrian confectioner and ("Purveyor to the Royal and Imperial Court", equivalent in the United Kingdom to holding a Royal warrant of appointment). He wo ...

(1832 – 1914), and originally named eponymously "Rumpelmeyer". Rumpelmayer's son René, and from 1916 his widow Angelina, continued the café and

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. It is named for their daughter. It became an institution frequented by elite Parisians, including

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and

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. The tea house was owned by the Rumpelmayer family until 1963. The interior design is by French architect Édouard-Jean Niermans in the

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style. In 2005, Angelina was taken over by Bertrand Restauration, a division of Groupe Bertrand, a French company, who have expanded the chain in the

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and

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. In 1982, the tea house welcomes the cast of

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to film some scenes for the movie with actors

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and

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Other venues

The original café is at the

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, located at 226

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in the

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. Another boutique is at the

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on the

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, and a ''Boutique Angelina'' in the

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. In 2009, an Angelina café was opened at

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in the

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. Two years later, another was opened there, in the

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. There is another at the

Musée du Luxembourg The () is a museum at 19 in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. Established in 1750, it was initially an art museum located in the east wing of the Luxembourg Palace (the matching west wing housed the Marie de' Medici cycle by Peter Paul Rubens) an ...

and a ''Boutique Angelina'' at 108

Rue du Bac The Rue du Bac () is a street in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. The street, which is 1,150 m long, begins at the junction of the quais Quai Voltaire, Voltaire and Quai Anatole-France, Anatole-France and ends at the Rue de Sèvres. Rue du Bac ...

. Another tea house opened recently at the

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in the

Bois de Boulogne The Bois de Boulogne (, "Boulogne woodland") is a large public park that is the western half of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, near the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt and Neuilly-sur-Seine. The land was ceded to the city of Paris by the Em ...

. Since 2016, a temporary location for an additional Angelina tea house is located at the Hôtel National des Invalides during the busy seasons (usually from April to October). In 2018, a franchise was established in Singapore at the

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hotel. In November 2020, they opened their first location in New York City. The location spans , seats 60 people and has marble tables.

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* Coffeehouses and cafés in Paris Organizations established in 1903 Buildings and structures in the 1st arrondissement of Paris Belle Époque {{Restaurants in Paris

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