The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-05
ORCHESTRA A FEATURE
"Schrap's'' Restaurant Opens Auspi-
ciously-A "Oitifed' Place :
to Eat. 80: a.

"Schrap's" opened yesterday.
'Schrap's' is new restaurant which
is destined to become very popular. !
with after-t heater diners, if
the opening patronage is a criterion.
s Hcaet snd St av Sdfe
as the best available place for the pur-
pose. He has fitted up the restaurant,
which is in a new brick building, in ex-
cellent taste, weathered oak prevailing.
He plans to make the place acceptable
to the best classes in the city, and par
ticularly to the women.
til 1 am. today the tables were well
filled, especially at the conventional
hours for luncheon, dinner and after
theater supper. An orchestra played
from $3.50 o'clock, enlivening the place,
which was already made extremely
ch ee I and inviting by decorations:
business. He is well advertised in other
cities as 9! caterer to good livers: In
New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, St.
Louis, and abroad, the name Schrap is
familiar to bon vivants. At the Hol-
land house, Kingsley's, the Planters
hotel Tony Faust,s, the ;; N s Ye 9S state <;
catering was enjoyed thoroly. He
was also with Sir Henry WOOD! Of. the
English government at the Columbian
exposition. His walters are capable
men, who have attended to cafe Gus
toners, some Of them, abroad as we'll as
in the American .centers
cafe is the Royal Hungarian orchestra,
the rear Of the big diningroom. The
Hungarians played at the st. Louis fair,
and furnish music in the delightful and
artistic manner which has made that
country famous. .--.". -.-' F.. ..~ -
Along with the general movement in
theatrical and other circles towards
metropolitan methods, Minneapolis has
now gained an absolutely "citifed''
place to eat. A metropolitan caterer,
| metropolitan chef, continental head
waiter and Hungarian orchestra will
combine at the Schrap cafe to make the
with the up-todate methods Of the alb,
| solutely modern restaurant.
~ In the morning will be served de-
| lightful little club breakfast, At moor
| special French and German dishes will
be placed on the carte de jour, an6
for supper approved eatables for that
hour and for after the theater the dain
playgoers Of New York and Chicago
are accustomed to satisfy their want
of appetite, following the opera or tn,
I drama.
| It will be the endeavor of Mr.. Schral
to make his cafe the natural place t,
drop in for meal or a light lunch
When it is taken as matter of cours
at the office, in the store, at the club
and even in the home, that, as a mat
ter Of course, Schrap.'s is the place t
eats then the proprietsrs, COMPOSING
the Schrap's Restaurant company, vii
be satisfied that they have given tn
public the real desideratum.
The need Of restaurant uptown
where theatergoers could drop in efo
late supper, was one Of the requisite
which brought the ,Schraps to the city
: Other cafes have been successful, bu
) for theater purposes they have suffere
; in patronage from either early closin
} or surroundings not conducive to POI
Z ular approval
} The Schraps Restaurant company hs
lust been Incorporated with $50 900 cal
{ ital. With G. r. Schrap are associate
his brother, Paul Schrap, and his so
5 Walter J. Schrap. III.