Welcome to Café Intermezzo,
Featuring the Largest Espresso/Cappuccino Machine in the World!
The European
coffeehouse…so prevalent, so popular, so common in the nineteenth
century Hapsburg Empire cities of Vienna, Prague and Budapest.
You have your table, you have your chair, you have your exact spot
at your coffeehouse where you plan, where
you ponder, where you promote the life you begin anew each day.
You read the paper, you learn what’s new, you admire a new
visitor whom you muster the courage to invite to your table for
a cappuccino.
Your visit
to your café isn’t simply a benefit, a treat, a perk…it’s
an absolute necessity for your life to move ahead with quality.
It’s as essential as breakfast and lunch…indeed, it
is breakfast and lunch. Food for
thought, food for life come to you through your moments in the coffeehouse.
The beverages and pastries you enjoy there are secondary to your
just being there.
Café
Intermezzo began as an idea in the mind of Brian Olson, predicated
upon his experience in, and love for, coffeehouses in Germany and
Austria. Olson’s partner in the opening of the Café,
Renate Olson, grew-up in Hamburg, Germany, and spent many hours
in Kaffeehausen. Their wish for
a European coffeehouse to themselves enjoy promoted the opening
of Café Intermezzo in the Atlanta suburb of Dunwoody on December
3, 1979. The eventual search for a second location yielded
an excellent old building on Peachtree Street near Midtown Atlanta,
which opened on December 29, 1987.
Café
Intermezzo, Das Europaeische Kaffeehaus,
provides a step back into nineteenth century Vienna. People
relax, meet, rendezvous, read, study, plan, create…everything
which took-place at Kolschitsky’s Coffeehouse
in Vienna beginning in 1683, and in all of its emulators around
the world thereafter (including the famous Lloyd’s
of London, and the Café Centrál
in Vienna.) Café Intermezzo presents over 100 different
tortes, tarts, cakes, pies and cheesecakes; scores of coffee beverages
and other non-alcohol beverages; many hundreds of beverages with
alcohol; and complete, international lunch and dinner menus with
a plethora of offerings.
Café Intermezzo
now offers Free Wireless Internet!
Available everyday at both locations between
the hours of 10am and 7pm.
Café Intermezzos are open every day of the year, from morning
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Alfred Polgar wrote in the Café Centrál in Vienna, “The
actual delights of this wonderful coffee-house can only be shared
by those who want nothing other than to be there. A lack
of purpose sanctifies the sojourn.”
Count Gasparo
Gozzi, in his 1770 book, Memorie Intuiti, which he wrote almost in its entirety
in a coffeehouse, wrote, “I
should recommend coffee-houses as excellent recipes for fleeing
from worries, and raising the spirits when one feels gloomy.”
He further wrote about another man at the coffeehouse: “He
had no greater joy than that, which was to sit some hours at the
coffee-house, listening to the various conversations, analyzing
different minds and characters.”
Brian and Page Olson, and their children Grace,
Christian and Jonathan welcome you to Café Intermezzo, and
invite your enjoyment of the Cafés anytime of the day, any
day of the year.
Thank-you!
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