The former court chef Carl Heinrich Alfred Georgi (1835-1914) came to Wiesbaden from Berlin in 1893 and had a Moorish-style coffee house built in Unter den Eichen by the Wiesbaden architect Carl Dormann (1859-1921). Café Orient opened on January 27, 1900, the birthday of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Empress Auguste Viktoria donated all the silver cutlery. Café Orient soon became a popular destination for high society from near and far. However, despite the good business, Georgi had to sell his "dream café" just two years later as he had overstretched himself financially. Café Orient subsequently had various owners and tenants until the hotel manager Georges Richefort (1868-1932) bought it and brought it back to prosperity with his wife Lina (1866-1958). Richefort also had to file for bankruptcy in 1929. Café Orient survived the Second World War undamaged.

Later, the rented parts of the building were occupied by a wide variety of people and companies, including a costume shop, a pest controller, artists, a ballet school, a shoemaker and a tailor. However, urgent repairs were no longer carried out. The building deteriorated more and more into a dilapidated ruin. It was demolished in 1964. Today, a seven-storey block of flats stands on the site, with nothing left to remind us of Café Orient. A grandson of Richefort had the café rebuilt on a scale of 1:25 in Thuringia. This model and all the collected memorabilia of the Café Orient are waiting for a place in a future Wiesbaden city museum.