If there is someone who knows how good food should taste, it’s Fausto Arrighi, the former director of the Italian version of “Guide Michelin”. The passionate restaurant tester has been[…]
Attractively set up in a stylish villa in affluent District II 18 months ago, Émile restaurant has found itself establishing a reputation that has proved to be a little too[…]
Eszter Palágyi has been managing the kitchen of Costes, the Michelin star-awarded restaurant, for over a year. She talked to The Budapest Times about her working days in the famed[…]
No other Hungarian restaurant has received as much international recognition as Costes. It was the first restaurant in the country to be rewarded with a Michelin star, in 2010, and[…]
Do you think that rock’n’roll and fine-dining don’t make a good match? Budapest businessman Károly Gerendai proves the opposite. The old rocker and founder of the legendary Sziget Festival won[…]
Thomas Bühner has just presented his culinary skills at a Pödör Black Table Fashion Dinner in Budapest. The chef of the La Vie gourmet restaurant in Osnabrück, Germany, has been[…]
The prizes awarded by Volkswagen-Dining Guide each year are the equivalent for Hungarian restaurateurs of the Oscars for the US film industry. This year’s “Restaurant of the year” title went[…]
Asked in 1923 why he wanted to climb the then-unconquered Everest – a considerably riskier prospect in those days – British mountaineer George Mallory offered the immortal retort, “Because it’s[…]
Once there were grey offices hiding away behind the listed façade of the building in District V’s Vigyázó Ferenc utca, which was designed by Hungarian architect József Hild. Now guests[…]
Something is happening in the Budapest culinary scene. A few years ago foreign cuisine in the Hungarian capital basically meant an option between spicy or yoghurt sauce on your gyros.[…]
