Focus on the new generation of gastronomes at this year’s Gourmet

With more than 100 exhibitors, including around 50 restaurants, dozens of confectioneries, street food, international cuisine and a variety of drinks from beers, wines, and champagnes to cocktails, the Gourmet Festival is the most important gastronomic event in Hungary. From 2-4 June, the Millenáris will once again host the event, this year with the theme “New Generation”.

Also this year, the festival will not focus on a specific food or ingredient: this time, the focus will be on young people and with them, innovation, new trends, technologies, ingredients or even style.

“Last year we focused on the theme of ‘Heritage’, but this year we are focusing on the future, as we can already see a new generation of chefs, pastry chefs, baristas and bartenders who, despite their youth, are representing their profession to a very high standard”

– said Richárd Nemes, Gourmet’s chief organiser.

At this year’s festival, the new generation will be represented by young professionals such as Anett Béres, who after university chose to follow her heart and became a self-taught pastry chef at the Michelin-starred Borkonyha and Textúra, and Richárd Csillag, chef at Lokal47 in Kétthely, who competed in one of the world’s most prestigious chef competitions at the age of 21, Mátyás Huszár, who leads the cheekily young team at the Vasüzlet in Balatonfüred, described as the “most exciting new opening” on the northern shore of Lake Balaton, and Edina Makai, who studied philosophy and played drums in a band before becoming assistant chef at the Michelin-starred Salt restaurant.