Buda Restaurants
Expensive restaurants popular with tourists and nouveau riche Hungarians abound in the Castle District, but one place to consider is Fekete Holló at Országház utca 10, the most charming inexpensive eatery in the district.
The Tabáni Kakas, I Attila út 27, will help you raise your cholesterol level: almost everything (mostly poultry dishes) is cooked in flavour-enhancing goose fat.
Hearty Hungarian meals are served at Sörözo a Szent Jupáthoz, II Retek utca 16 a block north of Moszkva tér. The menu is posted outside in English and it's open 24 hours a day.
Pesta Buda Vendeglo,Fortuna utca 3, Tel: 212 58 80 Luxurious restaurant serving Hungarian menus as well as International menus. Traditional Gypsy music for entertainment.
Garvics Vendeglo,Expensive but worthwhile for its exclusivity - a popular haunt of the elite.
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Pest Restaurants
Fatál, V Váci utca 67, which serves
massive Hungarian meals on wooden platters.
Kaltenberg, IX Kinizsi utca
30-36 (metro: Ferenc körút), has substantial Hungarian
meals, a German menu and is a medium-price choice.
The friendly Karcsi, VI Jókai
utca 20, a block back from Teréz körút and four blocks from Nyugati train station, serves very reasonable
Hungarian meals weekdays from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Dine in style at the restaurant upstairs at the Duna Palota, V Zrínyi utca 5
(daily from noon to 11 p.m.). This elegant palace erected in 1894 was formerly a military officers
club.
Typical Hungarian meals are served at the Alföldi,
V. Kecskeméti utca 4 (metro: Kálvin tér).
If you re not discouraged by the prospect of spending something like 5000 Ft per person for dinner, Gundel,
next to the zoo directly behind the Museum of Fine Arts at XIV állatkerti út 2 (metro: Széchsizeenyi
Fürdő),is probably Budapest s fanciest restaurant, with a tradition dating
back to 1894. Budapest cognoscenti, though, have now abandoned Gundel to the expense-account brigade and
flock to Bagolyvár, Gundel s little sister next door. It s open daily from noon to 11 p.m. |
