TV chef Alexander Kumptner starts the pizza oven in the garden of the pillared hall. The Everybody’s Darling in the Tuchlauben has to wait.
Alexander Kumptner is sitting in the garden and has the smell of charcoal in his nose. The pizza oven is just coming, but, he says, “we have to practice”. That’s why he and his team have borrowed someone else before. It stands on a Pinzgau in the garden of the Volksgarten pillared hall and was fired for the first time on Wednesday morning.
Actually, Kumptner, TV chef with a past with Werner Matt and Reinhard Gerer, with his friend and partner Ali Pasha Ilkhanipour from the Volksgarten Club wanted to unlock the “Everybody’s Darling” in the foreseeable future. Located in the Tuchlauben on the corner of Landskrongasse, the “Darling” is planned as a day bar, with the word “day” being interpreted generously. In the mornings there is coffee and pastry, from noon you should be able to get something to eat easily, just like in Barcelona, also for a meeting, while there may already be an after-work session next door, which, like in Kleinod or Robertos, stays until two in the morning can.
A rear room has now also been added. There should be fine dining, 16 seats, a menu, “as if I were cooking privately for you”. Now the virus, which was originally planned to open in April, has come in between. At the moment, the chairs from Italy are still missing, “not even someone lifts off”.
In view of the general situation, Kumptner recalls, sitting in the Volksgarten, “talking into a whirlpool, it was, sorry to say that, everything was okay.” Also, “for the first time in our latitudes it felt like not to be free. “And yes, of course the whining is at a high level. But then, says Kumptner, the troop opened the doors to the Volksgarten and saw their own tables “at the perfect distance”, with the town hall in the background, “just unbelievable.” That was the idea, just a week and a half ago for the summer pop-up: “If we can’t go to Italy, we’ll bring Italy here.” Especially since Volksgarten operator Wolfgang Böhm doesn’t know yet when and how club operations will be possible again.
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