Best of Budapest

ZONA has become one of Hungary’s best restaurants without lengthy preparations in advance. The interior spaces are huge, for this is not a small, intimate restaurant, but a minimalist, upper middle-class gastro cathedral. The service is perfect and the clientele is international. The place is full…

Master Wang’s restaurants rarely appear promising at first glance. The locations at Telepy and Gizella Streets looked pretty much like any other Chinese cookshop. Every piece of furniture looked cheap and was cheap indeed. The headquarters at Gizella Street functioned as a cookshop at lunchtime,…

When approaching the gate of Élesztő, a quiet murmur reveals that we are at the right place. Turning in, we find ourselves in an inner yard that looks like a ruin pub with a lot of greenery, adequately quiet music and a very long line. The thirsty masses. Still, we are served in ten minutes.…

Two rooftop bars opened for business recently in Budapest. One of them is on the top of the Paris Department Store, where a skating rink operated in our grandparents’ time. The other one gives us the feeling of being close to the clouds above Gozsdu Court, which we badly need among the tall…

It’s great that we have Halkakas, which is based on Hungarian fish, but these are salt-water fish: TheBigFish is right next to Oktogon, run by the same people that also operate the fish market in Budaörs. This guarantees the quality of the ingredients and just like a good steak, good fish…