Stop 4 · Gossip Walk
Próféta
Former beer hall · corner of Kárász and Kölcsey utca · until 1934
Writers Gárdonyi, Mikszáth and Herman sat here, and the city's best fish stew was cooked here.
In the 19th century Szeged's most famous innkeeper was György Ferencsevics, whom everyone called Kotyel Gyurka. Writers Géza Gárdonyi and Kálmán Mikszáth and naturalist Ottó Herman all came to his pub, the Próféta (“Prophet”). The city's best fish paprikash was cooked here; Gárdonyi even wrote about it.
The beer hall on the corner of Kárász and Kölcsey streets closed in 1934; the building is flats now. The nearby Propeller pub keeps its memory alive.
At one point 300 wine shops and pubs operated in Szeged at the same time. A few names from the old list: Négykézláb (“On All Fours”), Koppantyú, Vadembör (“Wild Man”), Örök világosság (“Eternal Light”).
On Nádor utca there was the Iszákregiment (“Boozers' Regiment”). Its keen members walked drunks home, then the next day sent them a letter inviting them to join. A dubious honour.
In the fishermen's inns there were no portions: everything went into one big pot in the middle of the table, and everyone ate as much as they could.
Still around today: the restaurant Henrik Haggenmacher opened in 1896, the Hági. And the Négylépcsős (“Four Steps”) pub, a pub since the early 1900s; regulars call the four steps at the entrance “the godfather”.
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- TrueThe Próféta beer hall closed in 1934.
- TrueGárdonyi, Mikszáth and Ottó Herman all drank at Kotyel Gyurka's.
- Allegedly300 pubs at once and the Boozers' Regiment: told by a city pub-tour guide, published by the local paper.