1850s

The Pizzinini family begins at San Cassiano; Rosa Alpina grows from the inn

Lane Crawford opens in Hong Kong with a tailor, a baker, a wine merchant, an auctioneer, a restaurant and a bar

Lane Crawford opens in Hong Kong

Scott's opens as an oyster warehouse in Coventry Street

Aristide Boucicaut becomes a partner at Le Bon Marché and replaces haggling with fixed prices, refunds and a reading room

Aristide Boucicaut opens Le Bon Marché — fixed prices, low margins, goods on open display

The Mont Cervin opens at Zermatt, one of the first hotels of the high Alps

The Villa Serbelloni opens as a hotel at Bellagio

The Pereire brothers buy the ground north of the boulevard des Capucines, meaning to build a luxury quarter connected to the railway stations they own

Henri and Édouard Mariage found their tea house in Paris on 1 June

Alexander Seiler takes the Monte Rosa at Zermatt and begins the Seiler dynasty

Napoleon III builds the Villa Eugénie at Biarritz for the Empress; it becomes the Hôtel du Palais in 1893

Queen Victoria stays at Le Meurice on her state visit to Paris

Johannes Badrutt takes the twelve-bed Pension Faller and makes it the Engadiner Kulm

The Europejski opens in Warsaw — the oldest hotel in the city

Jesuits found Château Ksara in the Bekaa — the oldest winery in the country

August Dehne sells the confiserie to his apprentice Christoph Demel

Pommery is founded at Reims; its cellars later become an exhibition space for contemporary art

Marqués de Riscal is founded in Rioja Alavesa

The Vier Jahreszeiten opens in Munich at the wish of Maximilian II

Baratti and Milano open their confectionery on via Dora Grossa, Turin

Jean Touan opens Café Tortoni in Buenos Aires, named for the Paris café

Florian is restored into the six rooms that stand today