Restaurants

The Coffee House Challenge That Started It All Picture this: You’re sitting in Szimpla Kert, nursing your third fröccs of the evening, when your pretentious friend from Cambridge drops this bomb: “Budapest is just Vienna-lite, really. The coffee houses are…

My phone has been buzzing for weeks. It’s the same message, copy-pasted from friends in London, cousins in the States, and that one guy I met in a ruin bar five years ago who still thinks I’m his personal concierge…

Szia, fellow food adventurers! 🇭🇺 Welcome to the beautiful chaos that is Hungary’s National Restaurant Week 2025, where Budapest’s dining scene temporarily loses its collective mind and somehow creates magic in the process. I’m your sarcastic local friend from Budapest…

My friend Kenji thinks he knows fried pork. To be fair, he’s earned that confidence. Hailing from Tokyo, Kenji’s devotion to the art of tonkatsu—the Japanese breaded and deep-fried pork cutlet—is borderline spiritual. He waxes poetic about the precise thickness…

Alright, listen up. You’ve landed in my chaotic, glorious city. You’ve ticked off Parliament, you’ve steamed yourself into a raisin at a thermal bath… and now you’re thirsty. Someone — probably from a country where they consider boiled potatoes “a…