Food & Restaurants

The best restaurants in Budapest are rarely the ones with a menu in six languages posted out front.

Here you get the full Budapest food map: Hungarian classics like goulash, chimney cake and proper pastry, plus the newer wave of burgers, hotpot, sushi and specialty coffee. Street food, market halls, cheap lunch menus and the fine dining end all live in this category.

Every place here has been eaten at by someone on our team, usually more than once, usually at our own expense. When a spot slides, we say so.

If you want the classics, start with the goulash and chimney cake guides. If you want to eat like a local on a budget, the street food and cheap lunch pieces are where the real city is.