Cuisine Crush: Delicious Discovery in Budapest, Hungary

June 23-26,2014 Budapest

Budapest is the metropolitan bridges together the east and the west of the restaurant gastronomique. Our delicious discovery with bargain prices is always the extra surprises to cure our hungers on the road! 

IKON 

June 23

Since the check-in time is late, we decide to hang around at neighbourhood and hunt our first lunch here in Pest. Passing through Jewish Church, we saw IKON Bristol terrace are full of locals chatting and dining, so here it is. I order main course: duck liver with 2 pork steaks, bottomed with Hungarian baked potatoes and carrots; for drinks, I pick the fresh squeezed lemon juice. Only 12 euros I had those most fatty, softest and melting flavours in my mouth, only after 2-hour arrival I know this city definitely owns something in deep.

IKON

June 24

MNG Museum Café

After climbing to the MNG tower, it’s about time to step down, take a rest and have some afternoon snacks. We spot MNG museum café is quite popular, so we order tiramisu cake, fresh lemonade and coffee Americano. The lemonade tastes like sparkling soda, very different than IKON fresh squeezed one, but still very refreshing. Tiramisu cake is big, rich and superb. A museum café can even reach up a very satisfaction level, and tiramisu cake only 650 HUF (around 2,20e, in Helsinki there is no way I can enjoy tiramisu with this price at café), we have more satisfaction about food in Hungary.

June 25 

BRGR Burger 

BRGR Burger is yet another evidence to prove that Budapest is a city of deli. I take chicken burger and never expect there tacking a pile of lettuce, a thick crispy chicken, a sunny side-up and 3 deep-fried onion rings! The baked hamburger bread does not have the taste of mass-produced flour. Except Midhill Burger, this is the most tasty burger I take pleasing bites these 2 years.

BRGR Burger
https://www.facebook.com/pages/BRGR/442162375882218

June 25

Alexandra Book café

The most looking-forward café during this trip is Alexandra Book café. Viewing the ceiling oil paintings, listening to the piano alive, sitting on the maroon red velvet sofa and eating Hungarian Dobos Torta, I feel like I am having luxurious afternoon tea in Astro-Hungarian Empire Palace. Fully satisfied, we head another Italian Bristol, take pasta and Spanish tapas (790huf for 3!!) for dinner treat. At late night, a mojito with World Cup at bar is another enjoyment of our Budapest Day.

Alexandra Book café

1061 Bueapest Andrássy út 39

June 25

Gastland Bristol

We don’t suck blood, but we need some good food. Taking the bus downward, we saw Gastland Bristol showing huge black poster as: All You Can Eat, 1190 Huf! We peek inside of the store and then 5 minutes later, we enjoy BBQ, salad, pasta, pizza and Hungarian beef soup for pleasure. I especially like this white broccoli wrapped with deep fried bread crumbs, and wonder how Hungarian vegetables can grow so enormously. After the buffet, we go by metro and take a look of Hungarian Parliament Building. Completed in 1904 with neo-Gothic style, Hungarian Parliament Building ranks as the second biggest parliament hall in Europe, and still stands the tallest architecture in Hungary. Luckily, hubby and I just pick the right time at the right place to witness the changing of guard, which is, yet another unexpected bonus surprise of the happy day.

Gastland Bisztró Moszkva (Facebook)
Budapest Margit krt. 105

June 26

Central Market 

Taking the metro to Central Market, our last main attraction before airport, the local and tourism scene concentrate at this largest interior market of Central Europe. We are already quite hungry at the moment, so we rush to the second level for this super delicious Hungarian beef rice with a half liter beer. The tourists and citizens gather and walk in front of the narrow food stalls, and later proceed to highly tourism souvenir stores. At the ground level, vegetables departments, spice cells, butcher’s blocks and deli sections are dancing around us. I love the energetic and vivid atmosphere of Budapest. Central Market is highly commercial at certain level indeed, but the smell of local life is haunting in my mind, until now.