The old Franconian dialect was quite heavily influenced by French. Lots of French expressions were used in everyday life, though the spelling was sometimes 'germanized'. Some have survived until today. Kanapee is one of them. Picture a cozy, overstuffed couch, a little on the antique side, and you see a Kanapee.

Urfersheim belongs to the Illesheim community and is located 'just outside the fence' of an American military facility Storck Barracks . The town looks back on an interesting 1250-year-old history and its name derives from 'urbares-heim', which means 'arable homestead'. The little church amidst family farms and houses sports a unique Roman portal and a hidden room underneath the church bells, which was used as a shelter by the town's people in the Thirty Years' War and was freed from the dirt of the centuries by the town's youth in 1989.

If the average Franconian is sometimes perceived as a bit unfriendly or introverted, put a good part of the blame on language problems, be it with Foreigners or Germans. Franconian hospitality and cuisine are in a class of their own. Our landscape is lovely, our soil is rich, our wines legendary and our beer can hold its own against any Bavarian kind, not to mention the Northern German types.

Should you ever have a chance to visit Franconia, take it and make sure you stop by our little café to enjoy traditional Franconian food, delicious home-made cakes and a cozy family-like atmosphere. Come home to Kanapee.

…oh - and we do speak English, of course.

Freitag bis Sonntag
14-22 Uhr

Montag und Dienstag geschlossen

Jeden letzten Sonntag im Monat:
Frühstück ab 9.30 Uhr