I started my studies at Gundel K\u00e1roly Catering Vocational School in 1998.<\/p>\n
It was mere luck I got to do my apprenticeship at the deservedly famous Hilton Hotel Budapest in the Buda Castle district. It was love at first sight, I was pulled in by the atmosphere of catering. I learnt a lot about profession, humbleness, loyalty from Istv\u00e1n Juh\u00e1sz and Csaba Horv\u00e1th \u2013 they had a great role in forming my \u2019first love\u2019 to something more lasting\u2026<\/p>\n
During my apprenticehip I belonged the ones who preferred learning by practice to sitting at my school desk. After my graduation, I got the opportunity of starting as a cook at Hilton Budapest.<\/p>\n
I worked there two more years and during this period I met the second big love of my life, my current wife, Veronika. Since then we established our family and we have two lovely kids.<\/p>\n
In 2004 I got a possibility at Pierrot Caf\u00e9 in Buda Castle district as well, where I spent almost 5 years working with chef S\u00e1ndor Cs\u00f3ka from who I learnt a lot.<\/p>\n
Like every young cook, I wanted to test myself abroad, and I was given an opportunity from chef Szabolcs Csit\u00e1ri to Ireland where I spent 6 months. In Ireland I became familiar with the high-quality materials \u2013 many times the fisherman directly came to us from the sea. The next big chapter in my life is the Eventrend Group, and its flagship, the New York Caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n
I worked 11 years with Andr\u00e1s Wolf which has a huge effect on my whole professional life \u2013 he inspired me, motivated me, he taught me and mentored me. He taught me how to think, plan and manage a big kitchen.<\/p>\n
During this period I worked at the Salon kitchen, the \u2019event\u2019 kitchen, which gave me new inspiration thanks to Tam\u00e1s Kelemen who showed me the \u2019tricks\u2019 how to manage an event kitchen \u2013 and life gave me the chance to be the director of this kitchen for 4 years. I worked at the new York Caf\u00e9\u2019s kitchen where I could learn even more from Zsolt Abrud\u00e1n about organisation, continuous improvement \u2013 I do not know a person more precise than him, so I learnt how to manage a pantry kitchen.<\/p>\n
consider my mission to search for the national small-scale producers and farmers \u2013 it\u2019s false that we do not have good resources in Hungary, it\u2019s just hard to find, but we are improving in this regard as well. I believe it is possible to create tasty food using Hungarian high-quality resources and recent technologies.<\/p>\n
I believe I returned to the Buda Castle, because this place is my past, my present and my future.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":819,"menu_order":3,"template":"","class_list":["post-818","team_members","type-team_members","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foorseg.dev3.smartbits.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_members\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foorseg.dev3.smartbits.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_members"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foorseg.dev3.smartbits.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team_members"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foorseg.dev3.smartbits.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foorseg.dev3.smartbits.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}