Sadly, I could not find a photo of Kaaps Restaurant online. It was a Green Bay landmark. Inside the narrow downtown building was a luscious German bakery, with mile-high breads, candies that were INCREDIBLY good (still available by phone order and they have a catalog). Kaap's Old World Chocolates (920) 430-9041.
They also had Steiff stuffed animals. I recall a stuffed hippo that had wooden teeth sewed into its red felt open mouth. I think that was Anne's.
Farther in was the restaurant, with dark wood booths and black marble-topped tables. [The tables and booths have been installed in a West DePere restaurant in case you happen to be in Green Bay and want to sit in one.] I usually got a hot fudge sundae there. It was served in a small pewter dish, one good-sized scoop of their HOME MADE ice cream, and a dark green ceramic gravy boat filled with dark, delicious hot fudge . . . it was not too thick, not too thin. When it poured over the vanilla ice cream, it ran down the sides and formed a moat of brown around the lovely white sphere. I can still taste it, which is a good thing, since the ice cream and the hot fudge are no longer available. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
They had VERY large geisha lamps with fringed shades at certain spots.
Legend has it that Otto Kaap, the owner, once climbed on top of a refrigerator (one of those huge stainless steel jobs), screamed and jumped up and down, to reprimand his staff. He was very thin with a bald head that was shaped like a light bulb. He had bulging veins all over his head, and he wore rimless glasses. He looked like the man in Edvard Munch's famous painting "The Scream", crossed with Mister Burns in The Simpsons.
There was also a VERY dark bar, where we were not allowed to go.
More on the bar later.
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Do you remember Otto's sister?
Movie star looks.
I frequented the restaurant to have lunch alone.
The atmosphere was glamours.
I loved sitting in the deep brown wooden booths and resting my hands on the black marble top table. The lighting was intimately low and everyone looked good (if you could see them- there were lots of nooks and crannies to tuck into for a secret rondevu) ...very sexy place with reasonable prices.
Loved the soup served with a hard roll.
People said the kitchen was dirty but when I worked there it was spotlessly clean.
Everyone knew our family (parents, grandparents etc)
LOL I loved the waitress's outfits, STARCHED to a fare-thee-well, black dresses with white aprons and white cap things like nurses used to wear (well, that is the way I remember them, anyway). To think you were one of them!!! They all seemed to be faded and worn. I am sure YOU were NOT!
I looked good in the uniform but didn't wear a bra or underpants...
Ohhhhhhhh, dear.
ooolala, rDs...
i always ordered the mint ice cream with hot fudge, o.m.goddess!!! remember the strange hard baby candies? and the dutch shoes? for some odd reason, when we ate there, i always wanted oragnejuice poured on top iceberg lettuce, had to be very cold.
i took a picture of the inside of kaap's. i will go in search.
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