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12017-06-27T12:26:49-07:00Café Fanconi11google_maps2018-05-17T05:08:37-07:001872-192146.4844, 30.736The Swiss-owned Café Fanconi was opened in 1872. “By the end of the nineteenth century,” writes the historian Steven Zipperstein, “little was left…of [Odessa’s] Italians or French influences than a smattering of splendid, popular cafés—Café Fanconi was the best well-known.”