Back. The grand Café de la Gare is reopening a store. This is what is announced on the social networks of this one hundred and ten year old brand. According to announcements made by the page of this century-old café, on social networks, the Café de la Gare is back, after years of absence, in the same premises, at Soarano station. In recent days, the time has come for recruitment and communication for this brand which was closed in 2019 “for renovation”. Good news for subscribers to this place with its cozy setting and metropolitan decor, a brand which has since been managed by Madarail.
The Café de la Gare is a vestige, remaining almost intact, of the first French infrastructures in Antananarivo. Although the café is, in its conception, a place to wait for the next train to this or that destination, like the Gare de Lyon or Austerlitz, the Café de la Gare Soarano has been, for years , a quiet place, far from the shackles of traffic, in the city center. Families and groups of friends shared unique moments under the vaults of this colonial architecture, transformed into a bar-restaurant. Several similar brands had to close their doors a few years ago, to name only the Ritz, Rex and Plaza Ampefiloha cinemas. Establishments left abandoned or even rented to be converted into places of worship.
Itamara Randriamamonjy