Cafe Marika closes permanently after 30 years in midtown Sacramento as owners retire
Cafe Marika, a well-reviewed traditional Hungarian restaurant with three memorable decades in midtown Sacramento, is closing its doors.
“Café Marika is now permanently closed. We are retiring,” a poster appearing in the storefront window this week read. “Thank you to all our customers for supporting us for the past 30 years!!”
Husband and wife Eva and Louie Chruma opened the tiny lunch-and-dinner spot in the late 1980s. From then up through the recent closure, Louie cooked up reasonably priced chicken paprikash, pan-fried pork schnitzel and other Hungarian, Czechosolvakian and German food while Eva ran the business side, as a 2016 feature by The Sacramento Bee documented.
Eva Chruma told The Sacramento Bee on Thursday that the restaurant’s lease ended Tuesday and that the couple, who are approaching their 70s, decided to end their time running the restaurant to enjoy their retirement.
“We’ll try to have a life after work,” Chruma said.
Eva said the restaurant won’t continue under new ownership, and that the next owners of the space can do “whatever they want with it.”
This story was originally published January 2, 2020 at 9:50 AM.
