Best of Budapest

Apologies to everyone for the low-quality photos that will follow: when I left home I didn’t know dinner would be the theme today, so I had to use the camera on my phone. This place has a wonderfully simple concept: a new menu every week, with a three-course meal that costs HUF 1650 at lunchtime…

The Pándzsáb Tandori is great. I knew it was great before I went to India, since you don’t need to leave Újlipótváros to know that. Lajos Takács, one of the best chefs in Hungary earlier said that he loves Asian cuisine although he has never been to the Far East. There is no connection…

The Central Passage is great most days of the week because if you put on your noise-cancelling earphones and walk along it with your back to Király Street, you can discover what Budapest would look like after being ravaged by zombies. It is a newly built house that sits empty and abandoned right…

We rarely accept invitations, but we like the person, Csaba Harmath who is behind the concept of Terminál, since he helped us launch our blog with useful comments and advice. So we said yes to a lunch together. No one else can be as embarrassing in a restaurant. He can spot the most insignificant…

So, here's our top list of fast food places in Budapest, in no particular order, as they are all outstanding. Let's see what we have. Bors: you can never grow tired of their sandwich called brain dead. Brains, jalapeño, crispy baguette. They’re constantly experimenting, so you have little…