Master Szarka, the innkeeper ventured a new enterprise at the end of the 1760s: he leased the building that was just finished by Jakab Fellner, the manor's noted architect. The new inn was situated in a good place: not far from the main square, where the traffic of five streets collected, at the junction of the Old and Budai streets, where a lane towards the springs and the far vineyards began. Besides the local craftsmen and farmers, more and more guests came from remote towns. In 1803, the language reformer poet Ferenc Kazinczy had to stop here because of an illness. In 1809, Sándor Kisfaludy (a poet again!) was dwelling here together with the other members of the Kaiser's Guard. In the first half of the 19th century, a number of the Hungarian celebrities were among the inn's guests, namely Mihály Vörösmarty, József Bajza, Mór Percel. During the 1848-49 revolution and war of independence, the soldiers of Komárom's castle often came here to wet their whistles until captain György Klapka forbade his officiers sneaking out here from besieged castle... The walls of the old hotel and restaurant remind us of famous innkeepers, renowned gipsy musicians, noisy groups of tourists from the capital, and succesful (or scandalous) theatrical performances...