Local and International Trends in Hospitality and Gastronomy

Conclusions

Over the past 20 years, Russia has seen a parade of national cuisines come through: There are pizzerias, sushi bars, Arab cafés with a hookah lounge and food stores with Uzbek flatbread nestling next to each other on the same streets. Russian Reporter picked 10 of the most popular imports and discovered how immigrating to Russia has affected each of them.
Thus, the basis of modern Russian cuisine is Old Russian and Slavic cuisines. Currently, Russian cuisine is not the most popular and well-known cuisine in the world, but trends in Russian restaurants suggest interpreting Russian cuisine in such a way that other nations of the world will like it.

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CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION IN HOSPITALITY SERVICE DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF KÖNYVBÁR & RESTAURANT, BUDAPEST

Tamara Rátz¹

Kodolányi János University, Budapest, Hungary Tourism Department

Introduction

The aim of this paper is to present and discuss a unique example of creative service development in the hospitality sector: the case of Könyvbár & Restaurant in Budapest, Hungary. Tourism and hospitality in the Hungarian capital have undergone significant changes in recent years, the restaurant scene has experienced a certain “revolution”, and the case of KönyvBár & Restaurant illustrates well these changes.
KönyvBár – translated as “BookBar” to English –, is a 40-seat literature- themed restaurant that opened in January 2015, on the edge of the so-called “ruin pub district” of Budapest. The novelty of the restaurant’s concept lies in their regularly changing menus inspired by international – and to a smaller extent, Hungarian – books, in addition to a standard, seasonally changing à la carte menu.