![]() ![]() There was no logo on the outside, so it had a full-on underground vibe and for two years it was the party venue. We got together and founded the original Anker, which was an immediate success. I was running my own night club but had just lost my space and was looking for somewhere new. The centre did pretty well, so we started looking for a bigger space. It was an honesty-box payment system – pay what you want, which helped us cover our expenses. We had a hang-out area so we put in a fridge and stocked it with beers. A non-profit space with a recording studio. Leó: Gàbor and I first worked together when we started an underground arts centre for musicians, painters and bands. It’s unusual to find a bar with three owners but they all have very defined roles: Gàbor looks after the finance and business side Leó is in charge of image, concept and service and Krisztián looks after the music and events. ![]() Owned by three life-long friends, Krisztián Vranik, Leó Menyhàrt and Gàbor Szabó, Anker’t is situated in the seventh district and can squeeze in 800 people on a busy Friday. But these bars aren’t a long-term prospect – they pop up, and disappear, with alarming regularity, giving them a uniquely edgy and secretive underground vibe. Anker’t is a ruin pub and the only tank bar in Hungary. Ruin pubs (‘romkocsma’ in Hungarian, literally ‘pub in a ruin’) are unique to Budapest, where the rents are practically nothing for entrepreneurs looking to set up a bar in one of the many derelict buildings that litter the capital’s centre. ![]()
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