The building at 26 Slawkowska Street which houses Cyrano de Bergerac in its celler and the Piano-Bar Le Fumoir on the ground floor has a nearly five-hundred year old tradition. The tenement-house was built within the Northern part of city's fortifications raised in 13th-14thcentury to repel Tartar invasions.

The first written information about the inhabitants comes from the year 1598. It has been listed in the Register of Monuments as one of the few tenement-houses in Cracow. People of various professions lived here and among them goldsmiths, bakers and gingerbread makers. In 1841 Kazimierz Robacki, a violinist and cathedral chanter's son established Miodosytnia K. Robackiego (Mead cellar of K. Robacki), which started a tradition of gastronomic activity at 26 Sławkowska Street. Honey, the basic material for mead production was brought from Ukraine and Podolia. It was brewed on the premises of the Corpus Christi Church in Kazimierz. Afterwards it was warmed and enriched with special herbs and spices. Prepared in this way mead mellowed in storage for several years in quarters called Korzenna which are today's cellars of Cyrano de Bergerac. The mead cellar itself was situated on the ground floor of the building where Piano-Bar Le Fumoir is located today.

After World War II which ended over a hundred years of mead production, in 1946 Jozefa Robacka-Krzyzewska opened in its place restaurant Pod Strzecha. In 1993 the house became the property of Anna Nowak-Riviere. After several years of intensive adaptive work in the cellars a new restaurant Cyrano de Bergerac came into being. This charming personality of French literature and film served as the origin of an exclusive restaurant placed five meters below the level of Slawkowska Street. Tapestries, tables, chairs, sideboards and trinkets gathered here are all authentic epochal antiques and have a story of their own. Discrete music of French masters such as Brel, Piaf and Aznavour sounds in a harmony with the congenial atmosphere of the interior.

On June 11th 1997 a grand opening of the restaurant took place and was attended by politicians, artists, journalists. As early as a half year later the Galician Academy of Taste chaired by Michał Ronikier and inspired by Robert Makłowicz, a member of Gazeta Wyborcza editorial staff rewarded Cyrano de Bergerac with the Golden Jackdaw Price as the best restaurant in the region. People of various walks of life come here, among them politicians, businessmen, artists, journalists, scholars and scientists.