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Terrace on a truck: an imaginative solution for the parking spot issue in district seven
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It is currently not possible in Budapest’s seventh district for venues to turn parking spots into terraces. After several unsuccessful attempts at the municipality, Szabad Bistro decided to bypass the problem using a truck.
Hungary’s first gastropub
The special feature of Szabad Bistro, founded in 2019, is that both their food and their drinks are made without ingredients of animal origin: you can come here for lunch or dinner as well as for a coffee or a beer.
The bistro is located in the heart of the city, in district seven. According to Index, though neighbouring districts help venues recover after the lockdown by giving them free parking spaces so that they can temporarily open a terrace, in this district, an amendment to the 2019 municipal regulation prohibits the operation of catering terraces in parking spaces.
The manager of the pub wrote an open letter to the municipality weeks before the reopening, asking for help and cooperation. Csongor Kiripolszky considers it unfair that the municipality does not sacrifice parking spaces in favour of terraces and claims they should make an exception for the season to help restaurants after the coronavirus-caused setback. The bistro needed a terrace because many guests do not have an immunity certificate. Kiripolszky wanted to book two parking spaces on which to set up a terrace of four tables.
Imaginative – great idea.
What harm is it doing ?
Absolutely – None what so ever.
Bureaucratic bullshit gone wild by the District council.
We eat and drink at a restaurant in Baross ter, District 9 – Fecske Presszo.
They have been permitted to extend outside eating tables and chairs in the ter.
The decision to grant extended tables has ceased motor vehicle delivery access in the ter and made walking “tighter” – but great mood with ALL the outside eating facilities for the restaurants.
People & businesses need income – and it’s SUMMER – and “some” tourists may come.
Be fair and reasonable – and assist restaurants rather than “dismiss” them through ideas that clearly show they are thinking outside the square and using their BRAINS.
Are you Councilors ???