Where did we start out from? We needed a place where we could make good food from good ingredients, which, in 2013, was a serious challenge in the gastronomic desert around lake Balaton.
Malackrumpli Bistro opened its doors for the first time in the summer of 2013 as a part of the still-existing Biobalaton grower’s market in Balatonfüred. Our primary goal was to operate the market and to support our own certified organic farm (www.fekete-barany.hu), but the guerrilla restaurant, operated with great enthusiasm and a modest infrastructure, became very successful very quickly. The media picked us up, and, in some ways, flooded us: the guests just kept coming and coming. We had to close by the end of the season and we were able to reopen the next year only with great difficulties. We were guerrillas, we just wanted to cook good food, but the world changed, and we had to change, too (in the second year we could not get away with not having any shade on the terrace…), so we had to invent something new every year while retaining the old values. We had to develop and invest continuously.