The building served as an elegant hotel and restaurant with fish and international kitchen. Casa Hrisicos, grandiose and spacious as it is now, was  enjoying utilities which Constanța did not usually afford at the times becoming very fast the target of the luxury class of Constanța. It hosted the famous people of Romania and even Europe from different social classes looking for comfort, food and fine drinks.

The noble walls of the building keep the secrets of the times, it is said that between the walls of this restaurant in Constanța, Caragiale and Delavrancea did not only discuss poetry and creations, but also made political decisions which influenced the future of Romania:

“While Ioan N. Roman with master Caragiale
And Barbu Delavrancea where drinking
Chihlimbariu de Samos, borco de Tenedos,
in the short corner at Hrisicos
Planning not only the Romanian prose, but Romania itself”

Constantin N. Sarry (p. 398)