“We will open a pub in the historical center, just one number (one house) away from our La Mama restaurant on Lipscani street. We are currently working on consolidating the building, which can take a long time.” This is why the businessman does not give any opening date, saying just that the place will be opened in 2012.
Mahu first tapped the historical center in the autumn of last year with a La Mama restaurant. The historical center, which boasts around 150 restaurants is an over EUR150 million business.
“We opened the La Mama restaurant on Lipscani street as late as in the autumn of 2011 (…) but we could feel the buzz of the area. Then came December, also a traditionally good month,” he says about the first experience in the area with the biggest concentration of restaurants, bars, and coffee shops in Romania. Mahu says that now, after several weeks of freezing weather and heavy snowfall, “things are starting to get going again.”
(English version by Daniela Stoican)