Best of Budapest

Judit told me that a new restaurant opened downtown, which in reality was actually only new in terms of location, and that she was in charge of their PR. She assured me that it’s a great place, told me I should trust her and that she knows I rarely accept invitations, but that I had to see this,…

Two musical groups joined forces to launch an experiment that promises to be quite a night of fun for all involved. The idea behind the project was to see what would happen if an ordinary person was suddenly thrust into the role of conductor and, without any prior training, had to direct two…

We’ve already written about downtown Budapest’s newfound vibrance, as crumbling and worn firewalls are revitalized with huge murals appearing on busy squares, thereby providing a much-needed dash of color to the otherwise dirty brick walls that fill central Budapest (which some tourists actually…

A few years back I went to the Hotel Nemzeti for a rigójancsi (a chocolate-based sponge cake and cream dessert) tasting. The reason we went there was because, according to legend, that is where the dessert was invented. The hotel was where the famous Gypsy violinist János Rigó asked the hotel’s…

Not so long ago and with the help of our readers, we began to compile a list of the Italian places in Budapest worth trying, and were ourselves quite surprised to discover the number of great places this city has - we’ve been unable to sample almost half of those our readers suggested in addition…