Best of Budapest

[The original article was posted on May 26, 2014] As of March this year we have three Michelin-starred locations in Budapest. The first to receive a star was Costes in 2010, followed by Onyx – and we’ll quickly add that both of them have since maintained their good quality – and now the…

Even though I’ve never been to Vietnam, I can tell a good pho from a bad one. I’ve been to Thailand, but the experience didn’t add to my ability to distinguish a good tom yum from a bad one. I did, of course, finally learn to detect whether or not the soup was authentic, but this is only…

[The original Hungarian article was posted on July 30, 2014] I was shoveling frozen French fries and a fairly tasteless chunk of breaded meat into my face in the third best restaurant in Frankfurt when I began to have serious doubts about Tripadvisor’s top list. The idea behind the top list is…

The good news is that a new store, Őshonos, recently opened on Radnóti utca where you can pig out on all manner of succulent delights – specially seasoned sausages, bacons, cheeses and nostalgic saveloys and frankfurters. Őshonos was created by Sándor Kerekes, the Hungarian Grey cattle…

We have been trying out spas since February, and floating in hot thermal water has made it much easier to bear the otherwise not terribly severe winter this year. We checked out seven places run by Budapest Spa, and it’s now time to summarize our findings. We started with Király Spa, one of the…