Nica - She fell in love with Jazz and cats. Her name was the Baroness Pannonica Rothschild de Koenigswarter.
Aristocratic and fiercely devoted to jazz, she became both patron and protector of the men who played it—at a time when the music, and those who made it, were far from socially acceptable.

In 1956, newly divorced, Nica moved into the Hotel Stanhope on Fifth Avenue, where her suite became a refuge for struggling jazz musicians. The place was soon nicknamed The Cathouse—for the cool cats of jazz who crashed there, and the 120 actual cats that roamed the rooms.

Nica opened in Austin by the owners of the famous nearby Elephant Room to homage to “The Jazz Baroness”. Nica features elegant, postwar-inspired craft cocktails and live music!