The Hotel New York in the early part of the 20th Century. Thank you to my friend and colleague in Cluj, Stefi Timofte, for finding this picture for me. Paddy says he got the details from a book in German, but the level of detail see my story about the internal decor implies that this book had very good photographs in colour or Paddy at least visited during one of his later visits to Romania. An eye for detail and the memory of the Hotel New York in Cluj.
The fact that the hotel is closed should not have been a barrier to this; all I had to do was find the recipe and a willing local barman and all would be OK. I had done some research, and whilst I could not find the recipe of the Cluj cocktail which was described by Paddy thus in Between the Woods and the Water β¦. An hotel at the end of the main square, called the New York β a great meeting place in the winter season β drew my companions like a magnet.
Florian Fischer kindly replied as follows, so maybe this autumn, to celebrate the publication of the biography, you may order one or even make it at home. I am really interested in cocktails of this period.
I was thinking about the recipe and I am quite sure, that it must be the following :. However, as I prepared for my last visit, there was an extra dimension to my anticipation. As the last week of April arrived Nick was staying at the house of a Romanian philanthropist in Turgu Mures.
We corresponded and Nick told me that he would be getting a lift to Cluj on the Monday, the day of my arrival. I was able to arrange some accommodation for him through a colleague at work and suggested that we meet at the Hotel Continental aka the New York in the main square in Cluj after I had finished work. This, therefore, is how we managed to meet after five months and, for Nick, over 1, miles of walking.
