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The First Theme Restaurant?

The following is compliments of National Geographic magazine.  "A hot spot called Hell's Cafe lured 19th-century Parisians to the Montmartre neighborhood ... With plaster lost souls writhing on its walls and a bug-eyed devil's head for the front door, le Cafe de L'Enfer may have been the world's first theme restaurant.  According to one 1899 visitor, the cafe's doorman - in a Satan suit - welcomed diners with the greeting, 'Enter and be damned.' ... Redemption for Hell's patrons wasn't far away:  A cafe called Heaven was right next door."

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