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Did Titanic sinking close Cafe Parisian in 1912?

Question asked:

“The permanent closure of the restaurant 'Cafe Parisian' in 1912 was caused by the sinking of the Titanic.”
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Confidence: High Checked on November 8, 2026

Summary

The Café Parisien referenced in the sources was a dining venue aboard the RMS Titanic, not an independent restaurant that closed permanently in 1912. Its existence ended with the sinking of the Titanic, but there is no evidence of a separate establishment named “Cafe Parisian” that was closed as a result of the disaster.

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encyclopedia-titanica.org
  • Cafe Parisien | Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board

    The room was about 84ft. long on the Titanic, it was shorter on the Olympic being about 75ft. long. Both rooms on both ships were a little over 17ft. wide. There were no revolving doors on the Titanic, just on the Olympic. I bet this is a rare picture of the 1912 illustration of Olympic's proposed design of the Café Parisien!

  • Cafe Parisian | Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board

    Didn't Mrs Candee adjourn there with some members of 'Our Coterie' after dinner on Sunday night, until the cold drove them all inside? No matter who the clients, the brief success of the Cafe Parisien aboard the 'Titanic' inspired the White Star Line to fit a more elaborate version aboard the 'Olympic' soon after the disaster.

  • The Parisian on the night the Titanic sank | Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board

    The Parisian, commanded by Captain Hains, was one of the ships in the near vicinity of the Titanic on the night of the disaster. Click to expand... But was it really "in the vicinity" of the disaster? Of course, there is an article from the Philadelphia Inquirer from 19th April 1912 mentioned on ET: PARISIAN'S WIRELESS EXPERT OFF DUTY WHEN TITANIC STRUCK BERG .

h-net.org
  • Cafes and the Parisian Working Class

    These include judicial records after 1870, especially those dealing with the sorts of petty incidents which took place in cafes, civil archives (including bankruptcy records), newspaper accounts, contemporary published accounts, novels, and studies by modern historians.

en.wikipedia.org
  • Parisian café - Wikipedia

    A Parisian café is a type of café found mainly in Paris, where in addition to serving food and drink it can serve as a meeting place, neighborhood hub, and place to relax in a congenial atmosphere. Typical Parisian cafés are not mere coffeehouses, but generally include a complete kitchen ...

jazzageclub.com
  • The Cafe de Paris, Paris - Jazz Age Club

    She also claimed that eventually Barraya sacked Maurice. Many years later Florence Walton refuted all of Irene’s claims saying Maurice was a ‘gentle, loveable man’ and that they were not dismissed by Barraya but left the Café de Paris in order to open in a show in London in July 1912.

titanicpages.com
  • Titanic’s Café Parisien | Titanic Pages - Titanic History Website

    Titanic’s Café Parisien for first class passengers – said to have been a first of its kind aboard a ship –was an afterthought – it was not originally intended to have been included aboard Titanic, and it was not, at the time Titanic sailed, included aboard her near identical sister ship Olympic.

cafeparisien.com
  • Cafe Parisien

    And then, in an unusual source to be sure, we have the recorded personal effects of Luigi Gatti, manager of Titanic's À la Carte Restaurant and Café, whose body was recovered at sea in the weeks following the sinking: among them, a key to the "entrance to Cafe Parisian."

popularmechanics.com
  • There’s a Wild Conspiracy Theory That the Titanic Never Sank

    Closely examined, none of the Olympic/Titanic claims can hold up to the phenomenal effort that was needed for the switch: the two ships were not exactly identical. The Titanic had a “unique café and enlarged á la carte restaurant,” Chirnside writes, and was modified based on the company’s earlier experience with the Olympic.

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