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COST: $71.50/ppMust be Prepaid by check or Venmo to Debbie or Michelle and includes Prix Fixe Menu Dinner & Show, tax, gratuity. Beverages will be additional on individual checks.
LIVE ENTERTAINMENT: Non-Traditional Opera performed by wait - staff!
Since its establishment in 1918, Victor Café has continued to cultivate old traditions and establish new ones. This blend has resulted in the living history atmosphere to which our many patrons and friends return year after year.
One hundred years ago a young Italian immigrated to America bringing with him little more than a great love for classical music and grand opera. It seemed only natural that his way of living would somehow include that love. John DiStefano settled in Philadelphia in 1908 and in 1918 opened his first business: a gramophone shop. Here, friends and neighbors came and enjoyed an espresso and spumoni while they listened to newly recorded operatic arias, symphonies and popular music of the day.
Upon the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, and in response to grim economic times, John purchased a beer and wine license and what had been DiStefano's Gramophone Shop became The Victor Café, "Music Lover's Rendezvous."
In 1979, an opera student working at The Victor Café between singing engagements sang for his customers and another tradition was born. On a shelf where a staircase connects the two brownstones which house the little café, sits a bell.
Every twenty minutes or so the wait staff will take a moment between courses to ring the bell, announce a performance, and fill the café with song.
For more on the history & info about Victor Cafe, click here → https://victorcafe.com/History=2
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RSVP w/payment by Oct 31 to our Hosts: Michelle Tieniber: 609.220.7109
or Debbie Longhi: 610.564.0960
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Victor Café, 1303 Dickinson Street,Philadelphia,PA,United States
