Built by an insurance company as a company hall, its Café in the ground floor named
New York Café (New York kávéház) was a longtime center for Hungarian literature and poetry,
soon from its opening on Oct. 23, 1894 to its closure in 2001,
to reconstruct it into a luxury hotel, as it is now.
The café was also reopened in May 5, 2006 in its original pomp, as was the whole building.