Swabia has something similar for wineries: Besenwirtschaft is a temporary small restaurant with very lax regulations. The main obligations are: at most 4 months open, at most 40 chairs, only cold food (often bread with lard), the wine does not have to be produced by the owner themselves, but the grapes have to be.

They are „advertised“ by hanging a broom outside (Besen is broom).

You tend to go visit a few over an afternoon, because they concentrate on certain wine-making towns.

Similar in neighbouring Latvia. Friends who recovered their grandparents' nationalised farm organised one there. They got to meet neighbours who lived there during the occupation. Pictures surfaced of the transformation into five tiny apartments in the late 1940s.

Can't imagine the food safety institutions even considering pop-up home cafes in my native Belgium.

• AyyEye

  today at 1:46 AM

  > Can't imagine the food safety institutions even considering pop-up home cafes in my native Belgium.

  Many states in the US have "cottage food" laws that allow low-risk foods (think baked goods, jams, jellies, candies, nuts, etc) to be labeled "this is an unregulated unlicensed cottage food product" and sold without a license. Belgium may have something similar.

Orthodox Jews do it every Sukkot :)

• Nail2680

  today at 2:23 AM

  I attended a Sukkot, druing which the host jokingly called the tent a "Jew Fort" and they had some lovely food and burned some herbs and overall had a great time. I really like the religious festivals that integrate more people. Like Holi, where I got to throw a lot of colored sand or something at people and eat good food. I feel like events like that really help integrate communities.

  Not Estonian, but a Swedish fellow I knew always had a summer event with lawn darts and other odd games and food each summer

TLDR to earn (tax free?) money, it has nothing to do with hospitality