Thursday, August 2, 2012

Origano, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Origano - "Located in what was once upon a time the village of Vrhovci, Origano isn't Ljubljana's most conveniently located restaurant, but is nevertheless worth the effort it takes to find. Set in a century-old house, the interior has been extensively modernised in a spacious minimalist style, which is well-suited for the cooking workshops and culture/culinary evenings that frequently take place - with Russia, India, Ireland and Greece all recently featured. In addition to a seasonally focussed à la carte menu, Origano has some of the best set lunches in town, usually consisting of a few lower priced options, a slightly more sophisticated business lunch and something for vegetarians." - by InYourPocket Ljubljana

Tomaž Jug - CEO at Beezway and Advisor at Editor, born and raised near Gorica, flexible with his accent, did a bit of family tree research - found Vojvodina roots, GEA College Entrepreneurship graduate in Portorož, one of the earliest geeks in Gorica with 9600bit modem, started a company with his sister, was a paid DJ, worked for Krea in Gorizia Italy and Arctur, tried with Markendrink, founded Editor with Igor Cej,  which eventually evolved into a franchise which was also his thesis subject, recently their new baby Beezway got funded in by a VC and is now pivoting through Start Cloud series of workshops using Ries' Lean Startup and Steve Blank's Startup Owner's Manual, 7 months old daughter, was recently engaged in last minute (literally) vacation capacity searching in Istria, tinkering most of the time he will one day grow a business accelerator with special ephasis on proper physical environment to the tune of I/O Ventures probably starting in Gorica.

Sometimes they also organize blind dinners in Origano.

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