Look, who's turning 100!
India, Dec. 19 -- Don't be nervous about the forthcoming new year. At least one of its aspects is guaranteed to be special, in a sweet way. 2026 will mark 100 years of Wenger's.
An iconic Delhi institution, the cake shop started as a catering outfit for the British troops in 1924. A Swiss lady called Jeanne Sterchi had co-founded the place with her husband, a Mr Wenger.
Two years later, in 1926, the catering outfit reinvented itself as a confectionery and tea room at the Exchange Store Building in north Delhi's Civil Lines. The confectionary shifted to its present address in Connaught Place's A Block during the late 1920s, or perhaps the early 1930s-nobody is sure. Connaught Place itself was being built around the same time.
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