![]() How did bars of Kaunas look like when you opened yours? Where you alone in your genre? Yes, the old visitors raised us a new generation of BO fans. They come with families, children, and there are also a few kids of the frequent visitors that now work behind our bar. I don’t think we have people who would be sitting here every day or week for 20 years, but some do return for specific occasions. ![]() Claudia loved the surrealist poet Paul Éluard, and she took the name from one of his verses, “The world is like a blue orange.” We’ve heard a variety of hilarious versions guessing the origin of the name, but I can assure you it doesn’t stand for the Blue Oyster as one of the rumours suggest.ĭo you have regular visitors that frequent BO since its opening day? When they began developing this idea, Deividas was the practical one, and Claudia was the moving spirit - it was she who came up with the bar’s name. The principal founders of the bar are probably Deivis and Claudia Mačiuliai: my brother and his wife. Not a typical Kaunas bar: we didn’t want it to be fancy, but a democratic place that would be friendly and close to people the one which you can visit without make-up or dress up (at the time it was like a slap in the face). It all began with the wish to open a different bar. Since we renovated it by ourselves - painted, demolished, brought all kinds of things from home - the opening of the bar itself happened only on May 5, 1995. We, as a company, are a year older, because we were established in 1994. Blue Orange has been running for 23 years already, right? ![]() Virgita to the left - Vaida to the right! ![]()
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