ANTON by Alelí and Alelí Now Share One Menu, and the Cheapest Pizza Is 6,500 Ft

ANTON and Alelí sit at the same address, a few steps apart, and they now publish one menu between them. The cheapest pizza on it is 6,500 Ft.

That matters because ANTON is still widely described as the cheaper way into this kitchen. On the card the restaurant publishes today, it is not.

Photo: Kelly Hunter, CC BY 2.0. A wood-fired pizza oven at work. Not ANTON’s own oven, but the same method behind its Neapolitan pizzas.

One kitchen, two rooms, and now one menu

ANTON sits inside the Dorothea Hotel building at Wekerle Sándor utca 3, directly opposite Alelí’s entrance. Same street, same number, a few steps between the two doors. Anyone who told you Alelí is up by Andrássy út was describing a different restaurant.

Giorgio Cavicchiolo runs both kitchens. He cooks for the Dani García Group, whose founder holds three Michelin stars in Marbella, and that Spanish pedigree is the whole of the Michelin story here. Alelí Budapest itself sits in the MICHELIN Guide’s main selection, a recommendation rather than an award, and it has never carried a star or a Bib Gourmand. Anyone selling you Michelin dining at this address is selling you a listing.

What ANTON keeps is the informality. No white tablecloths, warm low light, a Neapolitan oven, and a menu built on 48-hour-proofed dough, Italian hams and cheeses, aperitivo and spritz. It is a pizzeria and an aperitivo room that shares a kitchen brigade with a guide-listed restaurant.

What a pizza actually costs

Seven Neapolitan pizzas, all off the same 48-hour dough:

Pizza	What is on it	Price
Margherita	Tomato, mozzarella, fresh basil	6,500 Ft
Carbonara, funghi e guanciale	Mozzarella, parmesan, guanciale, egg, portobello	6,900 Ft
Mangalica prosciutto	Mangalica ham, mozzarella	6,900 Ft
Burrata e mortadella	Burrata, mortadella, pistachio, basil, parmesan	7,500 Ft
Diavola	Spicy salami, stracchino, pickled paprika	7,500 Ft
Pizza Alelí	Foie gras, pear chutney, balsamic, rocket	8,900 Ft
Tartuffo	Truffle, mozzarella, mushroom cream	8,900 Ft

The pasta sits in the same band, and it is where the kitchen is more interesting than the oven:

Pasta	Price
Gnocchi porcini	6,500 Ft
Spaghettini cacio e pepe	6,900 Ft
Rigatoni alla carbonara	6,900 Ft
Lasagna millefoglie	7,500 Ft
Cappelletti verdi di vitello, gremolata	7,500 Ft
Linguine ai frutti di mare	7,900 Ft
Pappardelle al ragù d’anatra	7,900 Ft
Tagliolini, garlic, chilli, Huelva prawn	8,500 Ft
Strozzapreti, beef tenderloin ragout, gorgonzola	8,900 Ft

Two things to add before you budget. Menu prices include VAT, and 15% service is added to the final bill, which the menu states outright. There is also a 10 g caviar supplement at 9,900 Ft attached to three dishes, which tells you where this menu’s ambitions sit.

Prices are in HUF, which is what you pay at the counter. Converted at 1 EUR = 364 HUF, the ECB rate on 6 August 2026. Rates move, so treat the converted figures as indicative. In euro that puts both the pizzas and the pasta at roughly 18 to 24.

Hours, address, booking

Detail	What to know
Address	Wekerle Sándor utca 3, 1051 Budapest, in the Dorothea Hotel block
Nearest landmark	Vörösmarty tér, a short walk
Open	Every day, 12:00 to 23:00
Kitchen	12:00 to 16:00 and 17:00 to 22:00
Lunch offer	Special lunch pairings between 12:00 and 15:00
Reservations	+36 30 547 2226, or online through the group’s booking system
Service charge	15%, added to the bill

The lunch window is worth naming on its own. Between midday and three the kitchen runs a pairing offer that does not appear on the evening card.

József nádor tér, photographed from Wekerle Sándor utca, the street ANTON sits on. Not the restaurant’s own frontage. Globetrotter19, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Taking the whole room

ANTON is 115 m² and holds up to 50 guests, and the restaurant markets it for private hire: aperitivo receptions, small company events, birthdays. For a group that wants a room rather than a long table, that is a more realistic ask here than at most central Budapest restaurants of this standard, because the space was built to be booked out.

So is it still worth it?

There is no savings argument. You are eating from the same card as the guide-listed restaurant across the corridor, at the same prices, so anyone picking ANTON to spend less will not. What you get instead is the version of that kitchen you can walk into in jeans on a Tuesday, at midday, without a plan made three weeks ago. That is access rather than a discount, and it is now the whole argument.

Order the pasta. The oven is good and the dough is properly handled, but the hand-rolled list is where this kitchen does work you will not get for the money elsewhere in District V.

More Budapest Italian

If it is specifically pizza you are chasing, our Budapest pizza guide ranks the city’s ovens, several of them well under 6,500 Ft. For the wider new-openings picture, see eight new Budapest places worth knowing in 2026. And if the guide listing is what drew you here, our rundown of Budapest’s MICHELIN restaurants sets out which of them earn the attention.

Prices, hours and menu details checked against the restaurant’s own published menu and website on 21 August 2026.