Fire &
Founders

Eight people. From different fields. One table.

🍴 Several courses   🍾 Sparkling wine reception   🍷 Paired wines   🤝 Networking
🏡  Burgenland, Austria

8 seats By personal invitation Once a month
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✓Franz replies himself ✓A conversation, not a pitch ✓You decide afterwards
Franz Ort
The story behind it

“I spent years looking for the right table, for a table where I could sit with my guests instead of standing apart from them. Nothing fit. So I built it myself.”

Franz Ort
Founder & host  ·  Mood & Food, Unterloisdorf

Today Franz invites eight people from different professions and industries to this table each month.

The film

An evening better shown than described.

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Who this evening is for

You have
earned this.

Most leaders pour everything into their work and forget to build themselves a setting that matches the life they have created.

  • Leaders who know what quality means
  • Founders for whom one evening counts for more than a meeting
  • Doctors, pharmacists, lawyers and tax advisors with standards
  • People for whom hosting means more than catering
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Guests at Fire & Founders
What guests say
Reinhold Geiß

An invitation from Franz Ort. Quite simply a new kind of grill table. First class.

Reinhold Geiß
Entrepreneur  ·  Golf Club Altea
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Delighted guests
at the Altea Grill Table
8
Hand-picked seats
per evening
1×
A month
Only eight invited guests
The Altea Grill Table

The table where nobody stands
at the grill alone.

No gas. No electricity. The embers of quality charcoal briquettes, set into the table top, right among your guests. Almost no smoke and no smell on your clothes. The Altea Grill Table is the only product of its kind in Europe.

Altea Grill Table beside a stone oven
The heart of the evening

One of a kind
in Europe.

You experience the Altea in person before anyone in your region owns one. No pressure. You decide afterwards whether you want one. More about the Altea →

What makes this evening
different.

Nobody stands at the grill alone

For once you are part of your own evening as the host, not the one serving while everyone else talks.

The embers. No compromise.

No gas, no electricity, but the heat of quality charcoal briquettes set into the table top. The aroma, the experience, with almost no smoke and no smell on your clothes. Franz built it because nothing like it existed.

The table becomes the conversation

Every guest asks about the table. Everyone wants to know where to get one. That is the moment Franz had, and the one you will have.

Regional sparkling wine, chilled in the table

The grill basin turns into an ice bucket. Bottles, drinks, starters: all in one piece.

Made in Austria

Handmade in Unterloisdorf, Burgenland. High-strength aluminium, CO₂-neutral ceramic, built for people with standards.

Clean in minutes

Stainless steel insert, takes apart, dishwasher safe. By the next morning the table is ready again. Done in minutes.

Picture how
this feels.

Arrival
A glass of sparkling wine in Burgenland.

Franz welcomes you himself in Unterloisdorf. A glass of regional sparkling wine, chilled in the Altea Grill Table. You meet people who think the way you do. The first conversations start on their own.

At the table
Eight like minds. One table. No agenda.

Business owners, executives, doctors, founders, lawyers. People who never find the time to get to know each other properly. Here that time exists. Franz tells his story briefly. Then the evening belongs to you.

Dinner
Several courses with paired wines, cooked over the embers.

Several courses, prepared right at the Altea Grill Table. Selected wines alongside. Everyone grills at the same time, nobody stands alone. The warmth of the embers, excellent food and conversations that go deeper than any business meeting.

Networking
Connections that outlast the evening.

What starts at the embers carries on. Shared projects, new contacts, conversations you do not forget. And on the drive home you think: I want this at my place too.

The table in use

One table. Many ways to use it.

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By invitation

Quite possibly the most exclusive grill table in the world.
Eight seats. By invitation.

When you have built something, your questions tend to circle inside the same room. At this table you sit with people from entirely different fields. The food cooks in front of you while you stay seated. Eight invited guests turn into good company fairly quickly. A few lines about yourself are enough. Franz will come back to you himself.

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Introduce yourself in a few lines. A direct line to Franz, a quick reply, entirely discreet. Your seat among eight guests People who know what they want do not wait.

Common questions
about the Altea Grill Table.

Exploded view of the Altea Grill Table: ceramic top, stainless steel grill insert and briquette tray above the table top
Ceramic top, stainless steel insert, briquette tray. Everything that sits beneath the table top.

Is there a grill table you can cook on right at the dining table?

Yes. The Altea Grill Table is a full dining table with a grill built into the table top. Every guest sits at the same table and grills at the same time. Nobody stands off to the side at a separate appliance. It is the only product of its kind in Europe.

Grill table with gas or with embers: what is the difference?

Gas heats, embers add aroma. Roasted notes only develop through direct embers and contact with smoke particles. Gas grill tables are cheaper and simpler to operate, but they do not deliver the taste of a charcoal fire. The Altea works exclusively with glowing charcoal briquettes.

What makes a grill table a good one?

Three things: a table top of fire-resistant ceramic rather than HPL laminate, a frame of self-extruded high-strength aluminium profiles rather than bought-in parts, and production in a workshop rather than on a line. The Altea is handmade by a family business in Burgenland, Austria. The table top is Dekton by Cosentino; the Altea is documented there as a case study.

Which grill table produces no smoke and no smell?

The Altea Grill Table is almost smokeless. The embers sit protected inside the table top, so fat does not drip into open flames. The result is hardly any smoke, no smell clinging to your clothes and no fire risk at the table.

Does the Altea Grill Table need gas or electricity?

Neither. The Altea runs on charcoal briquettes alone. There is no gas connection, no gas bottle and no power supply. The table can stand anywhere in the garden or on the terrace.

How do you clean the Altea Grill Table?

The stainless steel insert takes apart and goes into the dishwasher. The ceramic top is wiped down with a damp cloth. By the next morning the table is ready to use again.

Where can you buy the Altea Grill Table?

The Altea Grill Table is sold directly by the maker: Mood & Food, a brand of Torsysteme Ort GmbH in Unterloisdorf, Burgenland. Enquiries through mood-food.eu.

What is Fire & Founders?

Fire & Founders is a private dinner at the Altea Grill Table in Burgenland, Austria. Once a month eight invited guests (business owners, senior leaders, doctors and lawyers) come together for several courses with paired wines. The contribution is €95 per person.

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