The Jetpacker

Some cities are more known for the food than the attractions.  Budapest isn’t one of those cities.  So we didn’t have high expectations for dining in Budapest.  But we gained a new appreciation for Hungarian food after dining at some great places.  Here are some our favorite restaurants in Budapest…

We enjoyed the Blue Tomato Pub so much, we went back twice.  The corn soup was thick and chunky, filled with pieces of bacon and topped with toasted almonds.  My favorite dish was a heart attack waiting to happen: bacon-wrapped chicken served over cheesy potatoes.  Also delicious was the paper thin steak topped with an inhuman amount of friend onion strings.

Mátyás Pince is an elegant, old-fashion restaurant that serves huge portions and entertains guests with traditional music and dancing.  It was a typical tourist thing to do, but it never felt tacky and was actually really entertaining.  I’m not sure if I was more impressed with the performance, the King Matthais feast (beef sirloin, leg of duck, bacon wrapped goose liver, sausage, potatoes, cabbage) or the table of 50 Germans who seemed to know the words to every song.

We put off going to the Nagyi Nonstop Palacsintazoja until the second to last day in Budapest and we regret the days we lived without it.  Nagyi Nonstop Palacsintazoja is a 24-hour palacsinta shop offering over 100 types of crepes for less than a buck each.  It’s a chain with a bunch of locations throughout Budapest.  We had a cheese crepe, a sour cherry crepe and a chocolate crepe, and that was enough to keep us filled until lunch.

Our favorite restaurant in Budapest was a trendy placed called Menza.  Read our review here.

Blue Tomato Pub
www.bluetomato.hu
XIII. Pannónia u. 5-7
+36 1 339 8099

Mátyás Pince
V. Március 15 tér 7-8
+36 1 266 8008