At the "Eck", chef Daniel Tilinger grills and smokes over an open flame right in front of the guests.

Art and fire: An afternoon in Patrik Tkáč's new experience restaurant "Eck"

Peter Moser, Christoph Schwarz, 04.01.2024

Not far from Vienna, in the Slovakian capital Bratislava, food-loving investor Patrik Tkáč has fulfilled his dream of owning his own experience restaurant - the "Eck" - and a winery. Tkáč has hired the young chef Daniel Tilinger for his project.

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The last few metres to the restaurant lead past young vines and oversized works of art in the garden - a metre-high rocket smashes into pieces of cake - and you can already get a pleasant whiff of one of the restaurant's trademarks; here, barbecues are cooked in the open kitchen directly in front of the guests over an open fire. An evening in the "Eck" should be "an experience", that's what the team is committed to.

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