Patriciu expands bankers' restaurant with Petit Heritage

Heritage, the most expensive restaurant in Bucharest, also known as the bankers’ restaurant because most of its shareholders come from the banking sector, has expanded following a 100,000-euro investment, through the opening of Petit Heritage Traiteur. The new restaurant, located on Radu Beller Street also supplies catering services, in addition to food served in the restaurant, and prepared in the Heritage restaurant’s kitchen. “We decided to expand not by opening a new restaurant, but by tapping into a completely different business segment. With Petit Heritage Traiteur, we target a more extensive category of people who appreciate sophisticated gastronomy, but do not always have the time to go to a restaurant. We offer them the possibility to have breakfast at our restaurant considering that we open at 7:30 in the morning, they can order breakfast here or invite friends over – we supply the food and the waiting. We believe the two services go hand in hand,” say the representatives of Heritage. The majority shareholder of the Heritage restaurant is businessman Dinu Patriciu, who became the richest Romanian following the full sale of the Rompetrol group to Kazakh state-held company KazMunaiGaz. The transaction whereby the Rompetrol group was sold amounted to 1.7 billion dollars. The second-largest shareholder of the restaurant is, according to the latest available data, Dan Pascariu, chairman of the board of directors of UniCredit Tiriac Bank. The restaurant has 23 shareholders in all, among whom Robert Rekkers, CEO of Banca Transilvania, Anca Ioan, former CEO of Tiriac Holdings, Rasvan Radu, chief executive of UniCredit Tiriac, and George Butunoiu, one of the best-known head-hunters on the Romanian market.