On 19 September, the meeting of the Gundel Prize selection committee was held, as is traditional, at the Museum of Commerce and Hospitality, followed by a press conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
J\u00e1nos Gundel, a descendant of the Gundel family, the custodian of their culinary legacy and a well-known figure in hospitality education, and R\u00f3bert T\u00f6r\u00f6k, director of the MKVM, welcomed the attendees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Kov\u00e1cs, chairman of the Hungarian Catering Trade Association \u2013 the organisation that established the award \u2013 briefed those present on the committee meeting that had taken place prior to the press conference. He explained, amongst other things, that the twenty-member committee, comprising representatives of professional organisations, had faced a difficult task, as they had to choose from twenty nominees, all of whom were deserving of the Gundel Prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, according to the rules, there can be a maximum of three award winners in any one year. Following several rounds of voting, the committee finally awarded the 2025 K\u00e1roly Gundel Prize to the following three hospitality professionals (in alphabetical order):<\/p>\n\n\n\n
S\u00e1ndor Gottwald, the founding owner of the Gottwald Hotel in Tata and several other catering establishments;
L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Ruprecht, Pro Turismo award-winning chef and chairman of the Stylish Country Restaurants Association;
Rudolf Semsei, owner and managing director of Budapest Party Service, the VakVarj\u00fa restaurant group, Dobay Confectioneries and Paprika Revue House.
The creative chefs for the gala lunch scheduled for 19 October \u2013 in keeping with tradition \u2013 are last year\u2019s award winners \u2013 Attila Bics\u00e1r, executive chef at the Sauska 48 restaurant at the Sauska Winery in Vill\u00e1ny, and L\u00e1z\u00e1r Kov\u00e1cs-Sikl\u00f3si (L\u00e1z\u00e1r Chef), organiser of youth cooking competitions. Interestingly, both regard the Alab\u00e1rdos restaurant as having been instrumental in their professional development in their younger years, and both worked there under the mentorship and guidance of L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Jakabffy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The chefs at Gundel will, of course, play a significant role at the gala dinner in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Chef L\u00e1z\u00e1r announced at the press conference on 19 September, this October they\u2019ll be making a slight change to the usual arrangement, and the welcome canap\u00e9s and drinks, as well as the desserts and digestifs, will be served on the terrace (weather permitting), whilst only the soup, starters and main courses will be served at tables in the ballroom.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On 19 September, the meeting of the Gundel Prize selection committee was held, as is traditional, at the Museum of Commerce and Hospitality, followed by a press conference.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":25342,"template":"","publikacio":[35],"class_list":["post-25336","sajto","type-sajto","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publikacio-turizmus-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gundel.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sajto\/25336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gundel.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sajto"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gundel.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sajto"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gundel.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sajto\/25336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gundel.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gundel.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publikacio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gundel.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikacio?post=25336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}