Hungary’s renewed first McDonald’s in Budapest downtown reopened
Hungary’s renewed first McDonald’s in Budapest downtown reopened, and a Hungarian Michelin-star chef, Jenő Rácz, prepared the first fine dining meals, using authentic McDonald’s ingredients.
Hungary’s first McDonald’s fast food restaurant opened in 1988, before the fall of the Communist regime. Then, people stood in long queues to taste a tiny bit of the “American dream”. On Saturday, the same happened when the chain reopened the renewed first restaurant in Budapest downtown’s Régi Posta Street (Old Post Office Street).
According to portfolio.hu, the first Hungarian McDonald’s was renewed with unique solutions and natural building materials. Architectural concrete covers its interior. Furthermore, the floor and the walls of the McCafé unit are decorated with natural wood panels. In other parts of the restaurant, there is a terrazzo cover.
The tables were made of granite and wood, just like the lateral wall of the kitchenette. McDonald’s wrote that their first Hungarian restaurant meant more than just a meal serving unit. It was the courier of change. Therefore, people stood in long queues in front of it for days. As a result, they broke sales records in 1988 in Hungary.
Yesterday, the queue was also long despite the rain and bad weather. HERE you can check out a video of it, and HERE are some photos.
On the Saturday opening ceremony, Hungary’s probably most well-known Michelin-star chef, Jenő Rácz, welcomed the guests with a fine-dining menu containing elements of “traditional” McDonald’s food. Thus, guests could taste salmon, caviar, foie gras, and honey-glazed chicken breast. According to telex.hu, it was not the McDonald’s experience we got used to in the previous decades.
The Régi Posta Street McDonald’s looks great but one of the world’s most beautiful McDonald’s is a couple of streets away, near the Nyugati railway station. HERE is our article about it.
And below is another one:
McDonald’s in danger? Brand new fast food chain could take Hungary by storm – Read more HERE
We reside in regi posta utca.
We have lived near on 18 months of trucks and other machinery up and down our utca, through the building of a new apartment and “other” building on the corner of regi posta utca and vaci utca.
Then the McDonalds – face lift – 3 plus months.
Then from Thursday last week – no trucks – high quality utca cleaning – new red plastic covering over damaged paving through HEAVY concrete trucks and “other” heavy machinery/trucks – using our utca – what a FALSE & PLASTIC show we have seen.
The trucks have got to RETURN as the new building referred is NOT near completion.
Just for the VIP’s – the PLASTIC dolly up SHOW.
We poor tax payers from living in our houses what we have put up with and its LONG off ceasing, then this PLASTIC show – Appalling / Disgusting.