Best of Budapest

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…

Everyone has learned that they can buy arabica and robusta coffee; the former is more expensive and of premium quality, the latter is cheaper and simpler. We were all raised on the latter one. Well, this is not necessarily true. On the other hand, there are more than just these two types, though…

As far as I can tell, Budapest doesn’t really have a group capable of bringing the same care and professionalism to a vegetarian restaurant that our tops chefs guarantee in the world of bistros. I can still assemble an unenthusiastic list, however, which can be used to check out the world of…

[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…