Restaurants in Budapest
If you are here is because you love good food (like me) and when you travel you don't want to leave anything to chance. So after you have booked one of my apartment in downtown Budapest you are looking for some good advice and some good restaurant where to eat in Budapest.
First of all you have to know that recently for Vanity Fair magazine Budapest wins the award of world capital of food.
Where to eat?
In my restaurant!! and where else? I am owner of a famous italian restaurant in Budapest. I love to spend my free time there every day, so it could be a chance also to meet each other, why not?
The place is BELLI DI MAMMA - Pizza & Wine.
Belli di mamma is very popular in Budapest, we do the best autentic italian pizza and some other typical italian foods as well, with traditional italian ingredients that comes fresh from Italy every day.
So I will wait you: BELLI DI MAMMA, the address Akacfa utca 45 (VII. district). Say that you are Dunaflat guests and you will have our best treatment.
Reservation table +36 1 9513969 and I will reserve for you.
READ HERE some reviews on BELLI DI MAMMA.
In many restaurants in Budapest, on weekdays, it's usual to offer a cheap daily menu, that is not usually offered to tourists for obvious business reasons. Request it and you will receive an additional menu with special daily offer (in Hungarian language it called 'napi menu' (lunch menu)).
Here my list of favourites 'napi menu':
Address: Andrássy út 41 (VI.)
Address: Mozsár street 12 (VI.)
Address: Liszt Ferenc tér 2 (VI.)
Address: Nagymezö utca 14 (VI.)
Address: Szófia utca 33 (VI.)
Address: Bem József tér 1 (I.)
This is my ranking of restaurants, suggested by my taste and my personal and private experiences.
At the bottom of the page you can find a map to locate restaurants in the city.
The ranking is divided between Traditional Hungarian taverns and Hungarian Kitchen 2.0, more focused on food lightness, modern cooking, a cuisine of excellence.
My advice is do not leave Budapest without having tried the Hungarian cuisine, but at the same time try to have a dinner once the excellence of the International Cuisine and if your journey includes a sunday please have the Sunday brunch experience.
You will be impressed.
Address: Hold u. 13 (V.)
Address: Kossuth tér 18 (V.)
Address: Mosonyi utca 3 (VIII.)
Address: Andrássy út 41 (VI.)
Address: Liszt Ferenc tér 2 (VI.)
Address: Nagymezö utca 14 (VI.)
Address: Kígyó utca 4-6 (V.)
Address: Paulay Ede u. 7 (VI.)
Address: Sas utca 17 (V.)
Address: Vigyázó Ferenc utca 4 (V.)
Address: Kertész utca 48 (VII.)
Address: Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út 78 (V.)
Address: Március 15. tér 4 (V.)
Address: Csarnok tér 5 (V.)
Address: Állatkerti út 2 (Distric VI.)
Address: Kazinczy utca 41 (VII.)
Address: Bem rkp. 16-19 (I.)
Address: Dob utca 15 (VII.)
Address: Dohány u. 29 (VII.)
Address: Magyar utca 12 (V.)
Address: Ördögárok utca 80
Address: Mňkus utca 22 (III.)
Address: Dózsa György út 72 (VI.)
Address: Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út 15/A (VI.)
Address: Podmaniczky utca 14 (VI.)
Address: Szófia utca 33 (VI.)
Address: Steindl Imre utca 13 (V.)
Address: Klauzál u. 23 (VII.)
Address: Bem József tér 1 (I.)
Address: Radnóti Miklós utca 38 (XIII.)
Address: Hídfo u. 16 (III.)
Address: Szolo u. 42 (III.)
Address: Bihari János u. 17 (V.)
Address: Vámház krt. 1-3 (V.)
Address: Váci utca 69 (V.)
Address: Jókai utca 20 (VI.)
Arany János utca 9 (V.)
Dohŕny utca 5 (VI.)
Andrássy út 34 (VI.)
Kolosy tér 5 (II.)
Belgrád Rakpart 13 (V.)
Mozsár street 12 (VI.)
Ocktober 6 utca 6 (V.)
Garibaldi utca 4 (V.)
Szondi u. 40 (VI.)
Károlyi Mihály utca 19 (V.)
Vámház körút 6 (V.)
Zoltan utca 16 (V.)
József krt 85 (IX.)
Október huszonharmadika utca 27 (XI.)
Holló u. 10, (VII.)
Podmaniczky utca 18 (VI.)
Király utca 30-32 (VI.)
Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út 35 (VI.)
Andrássy út 44 (VI.)
Nagydiófa utca 3 (VII.)
Erzsébet körút 43-49 (VII.)
Állatkerti út 2 (V.)
Dohany utca 42-44 (VII.)
First of all you have to know that recently for Vanity Fair magazine Budapest wins the award of world capital of food.
Where to eat?
In my restaurant!! and where else? I am owner of a famous italian restaurant in Budapest. I love to spend my free time there every day, so it could be a chance also to meet each other, why not?
The place is BELLI DI MAMMA - Pizza & Wine.
Belli di mamma is very popular in Budapest, we do the best autentic italian pizza and some other typical italian foods as well, with traditional italian ingredients that comes fresh from Italy every day.
So I will wait you: BELLI DI MAMMA, the address Akacfa utca 45 (VII. district). Say that you are Dunaflat guests and you will have our best treatment.
Reservation table +36 1 9513969 and I will reserve for you.
READ HERE some reviews on BELLI DI MAMMA.
In many restaurants in Budapest, on weekdays, it's usual to offer a cheap daily menu, that is not usually offered to tourists for obvious business reasons. Request it and you will receive an additional menu with special daily offer (in Hungarian language it called 'napi menu' (lunch menu)).
Here my list of favourites 'napi menu':
Launch menu ('Napi menu')
1° - Szék
Hungarian-Transilvanian restaurantAddress: Andrássy út 41 (VI.)
2° - Krizia
Italian restaurantAddress: Mozsár street 12 (VI.)
3° - Menza
Restaurant and lounge barAddress: Liszt Ferenc tér 2 (VI.)
Web: www.menzaetterem.hu
4° - Két Szerecsen
Hungarian restaurantAddress: Nagymezö utca 14 (VI.)
Web: www.ketszerecsen.com
5° - Regós
Typical hungarian restaurantAddress: Szófia utca 33 (VI.)
Web: www.regosvendeglo.hu
6° - Bem Étterem - Sörözö
Typical hungarian restaurant with beer house. autenthic traditional food and very cheap prices.Address: Bem József tér 1 (I.)
Web: www.bemsorozo.hu
This is my ranking of restaurants, suggested by my taste and my personal and private experiences.
At the bottom of the page you can find a map to locate restaurants in the city.
The ranking is divided between Traditional Hungarian taverns and Hungarian Kitchen 2.0, more focused on food lightness, modern cooking, a cuisine of excellence.
My advice is do not leave Budapest without having tried the Hungarian cuisine, but at the same time try to have a dinner once the excellence of the International Cuisine and if your journey includes a sunday please have the Sunday brunch experience.
You will be impressed.
Hungarian Kitchen 2.0
1° - Kispiac
Hungarian bistroAddress: Hold u. 13 (V.)
Hungarian food in paradise. One of my favourite.
2° - Biarritz
Hungarian bistroAddress: Kossuth tér 18 (V.)
Web: www.biarritz.hu
Historical Hungarian bistro, closed for decades and brought to light after the fall of socialism. Biarritz offers traditional Hungarian flavors and food. The restaurant is very friendly and informal. Certainly an original address, outside the normal tourist circuits.
3° - Rosenstein
Hungarian restaurantAddress: Mosonyi utca 3 (VIII.)
Web: www.rosenstein.hu
It's a family run business Hungarian restaurant, the most complete of all Hungarian restaurants, the restaurant that everyone would like to find. Ideal for tourists, for anyone who lives in Budapest. Here is all good and the Rosenstein family is ompletely ready to help you to enjoy the Hungarian cuisine without customizations. The real problem is the lcoation, in fact it's located in a poor district of the city. Reachable by taxi.
4° - Szék
Hungarian-Transilvanian restaurantAddress: Andrássy út 41 (VI.)
Hungarian-Transilvanian restaurant
5° - Menza
Restaurant and lounge barAddress: Liszt Ferenc tér 2 (VI.)
Web: www.menzaetterem.hu
Cool and trendy, the restaurant Menza was built on the site of the old refectory of the Terervaros district in the Socialist period. To exorcise the end of the regime, it opened one of the most fashionable spot of the city, also now it still on top. Cocktails are excellent and there is also an excellent food.
6° - Két Szerecsen
Hungarian restaurantAddress: Nagymezö utca 14 (VI.)
Web: www.ketszerecsen.com
Hungarian, international, fushion food in Broadway Pest. Here you can taste a new life of food experience, where most world flavours are mixed up for an excellent result. Trend setter.
7° - Apostolok
Hungarian RestaurantAddress: Kígyó utca 4-6 (V.)
Basic dishes of Hungarian cuisine cooked flawlessly. Suitable for a first approach to Hungarian cuisine. Located in the most touritic area of the city, which in this case (unlike others) does not automatically results like a poor quality.
8° - VakVarju
Hungarian RestaurantAddress: Paulay Ede u. 7 (VI.)
Web: www.vakvarju.com
Typical hungarian restaurant for tourists and local people.
9° - Café Kör
Hungarian-french restaurantAddress: Sas utca 17 (V.)
Web: www.cafekor.com
The restaurant is very popular and busy every night of the week. Fast service and many fine waiters make make the service at the top. The dishes are classic Hungarian dishes. The daily specials are written on a blackboard for the benefit of those who prefares fresh products.
10° - Mák Bistro
Gourmet restaurantAddress: Vigyázó Ferenc utca 4 (V.)
Web: www.makbistro.hu
One of the best gourmet restaurant in Budapest
11° - M.
Hungarian-french restaurantAddress: Kertész utca 48 (VII.)
Web: www.metterem.hu
In this restaurant there is a not table equal to another, and there isn't a table that gives security about collapse to the ground at any moment. The daily menu is written in pen on recycled paper. Certainly a restaurant to open-minded people. The cuisine, though it is true, accurate and of great taste. Hungarian and French traditional dishes, prepared with precision, wisdom and skill.
Brilliant and unconventional.
12° - St.Andrea
wine restaurantAddress: Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út 78 (V.)
Web: www.standrea.com
13° - Kiosk
Hungarian restaurantAddress: Március 15. tér 4 (V.)
14° - Borbíróság
Hungarian restaurantAddress: Csarnok tér 5 (V.)
Web: www.borbirosag.com
The court of wine. This is the name of this unusual bistro near the Great Market Hall in Budapest. Here you can taste a cuisine light, fresh and modern and a limitless selection of wines. This is not a classic Hungarian restaurant, this is not a international cuisine restaurant. Certainly those are the ingredients of classic Hungarian tradition, but revised and assembled in a modern style.
15° - Bagolyvar
Hungarian historical restaurantAddress: Állatkerti út 2 (Distric VI.)
Web: www.bagolyvar.com
Younger brother of the famous Gundel, shares the local cuisine with more well-known restaurant, a milestone in Hungarian gastronomy. Located close to the Heroe's Square, Bagolyvár retains original architectural elements and an atmosphere reminiscent of the typical Hungarian dining room. It uses a staff totally feminine. The place is regularly packed with tourists.
16° - Kóleves Stonesoup
Hungarian restaurantAddress: Kazinczy utca 41 (VII.)
Web: www.koleves.com
This restaurant is located in the Jewish Quarter, and features classics of Hungarian cuisine and Jewish cuisine of Budapest. The restaurant is furnished in a very particular way, suitable for a young and creative people. The food is simple and valuable. The dishes are treated in detail and the flavors are well balanced. Certainly a place to be if you go from here. Good with respect.
17° - Art otel
Hungarian restaurantAddress: Bem rkp. 16-19 (I.)
Web: www.artotels.com
18° - Spinoza
Hungarian-Jewish restaurantAddress: Dob utca 15 (VII.)
Web: www.spinozahaz.hu
We are located in the Jewish quarter of Budapest and Spinoza here is an institution. Bistro, restaurant, theater, a reference point for the Jewish community of Budapest. In the evening the restaurant often hosts live music on Friday nights beginning at 19 is a very impressive evening of Klezmer music. The restaurant offers classic Jewish cuisine of Budapest. A timeless spot.
19° - Tabla
gourmet restaurantAddress: Dohány u. 29 (VII.)
20° - Ruben
Hungarian restaurantAddress: Magyar utca 12 (V.)
Elegant restaurant in downtown Budapest offering classic dishes of Hungarian cuisine at very cheap prices. The cost of meals not deceived: Ruben is a guarantee of quality and originality.
Traditional Hungarian Taverns
1° - Nancsi Neni!
Hungarian restaurantAddress: Ördögárok utca 80
Web: www.nancsineni.hu
One of the best hungarian resaturant. On the hill of Buda.
2° - Kčhli
Hungarian restaurantAddress: Mňkus utca 22 (III.)
Web: www.kehli.hu
Probably the most famous Hungarian restaurant of Budapest. It's located in Obuda, 20 minutes from city center. You can reach it by taxi.
3° - Paprika
Hungarian typical restaurantAddress: Dózsa György út 72 (VI.)
A place definitely impressive, nice for an evening with friends. Good Hungarian cuisine and service is very friendly. A place for tourists but the quality is very good.
4° - Belvárosi Lugas Vendéglo
Typical hungarian restaurantAddress: Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út 15/A (VI.)
Web: lugas-etterem.com
5° - Sir Lancilot
Hungarian restaurantAddress: Podmaniczky utca 14 (VI.)
Web: www.sirlancelot.hu
It is a medieval restaurant, complete with waiters in costumes, play with swords and fire eaters. Hungarian meat cooked. You eat with your hands. Each table is equipped with a sink for washing hands. Suitable for a young guests.
6° - Regós
Typical hungarian restaurantAddress: Szófia utca 33 (VI.)
Web: www.regosvendeglo.hu
It's a quiet family-run neighborhood restaurant where you can enjoy a traditional Hungarian cuisine, with no frills and no pretensions. The portions are generous and the restaurant is cheap. It's a point of reference for many Hungarian customers.
7° - Hungarikum Bisztro
Hugarian restaurantAddress: Steindl Imre utca 13 (V.)
Web: hungarikumbisztro.hu
Here you can eat the real Hungarian cuisine. Eating at this restaurant will be like sit at the table in a Hungarian family. The dishes will not be fine, they will not be remembered after a long time, but they are undoubtedly traditional recipes of Hungarian cuisine. If you are a tourist and want to have an easy approach to the Hungarian home cooking this is your home-restaurant.
8° - Klauzal café
Typical hungarian restaurantAddress: Klauzál u. 23 (VII.)
Web: www.klauzalcafe.hu
9° - Bem Étterem - Sörözö
Typical hungarian restaurant with beer house. autenthic traditional food and very cheap prices.Address: Bem József tér 1 (I.)
Web: www.bemsorozo.hu
10° - Pozsonyi Kisvendéglo
Hungarian typical restaurantAddress: Radnóti Miklós utca 38 (XIII.)
Full of hungarian people. Hungarian classic dishes, in a little restaurant. Very cheap rates.
11° - Csalanosi Csarda
Hungarian RestaurantAddress: Hídfo u. 16 (III.)
Web: csalanosicsarda.hu
Autentic hungarian csarda
12° - Zöld Kapu
Typical hungarian restaurantAddress: Szolo u. 42 (III.)
13° - Szlovák Sörözo
Hungarian-Slovakian restaurantAddress: Bihari János u. 17 (V.)
14° - Fakanál
Hungarian RestaurantAddress: Vámház krt. 1-3 (V.)
The restaurant is located on the first floor of the Big Market Hall, which is one of the most visited tourist attractions of Budapest.
Here you can find the main basic dishes of Hungarian food, cooked in an authentic and tasty way, like the Hungarian grandmothers. A must for those seeking to discover the real flavors of Hungary.
15° - Fatal
Hungarian restaurantAddress: Váci utca 69 (V.)
In the pedestrian street Vaci utca is a Hungarian restaurant, very noisy, which are served at the Hungarian cuisine and the giant-sized affordable price. Ideal for those who have never tried the Hungarian cuisine, and is looking for an informal place to start to taste it.
16° - Karcsi
Typical hungarian restaurantAddress: Jókai utca 20 (VI.)
This place is very well known and frequented by Hungarians. Here you can find classics of Hungarian cuisine at very cheap prices. The business lunch costs less than 3 euros.
The portions are generous, authentic and of good quality.
The best goulash soup in Budapest.
International Restaurants
1° - PomoDoro
Italian restaurantArany János utca 9 (V.)
One of the most successful Italian restaurants in Budapest. Meeting place for many Italians living in the Hungarian capital, it's also frequented by famous guests. It has a varied menu, excellent food quality, and the rich offer of wines. Ideal for dinners with friends. The owner always sunny and smiling has become over time a person well known in Hungary.
2° - Fausto
Italian restaurantDohŕny utca 5 (VI.)
Web: www.fausto.hu
The restaurant offers typical Italian dishes and products of the highest quality. The chef is italian. A restaurant that has nothing to envy to the best Italian restaurants. Expensive.
3° - Hoppá! Bistro
International BistroAndrássy út 34 (VI.)
International Bistro
4° - Okuyama no Sushi
JapaneseKolosy tér 5 (II.)
Web: okuyamanosushi.uw.hu
5° - Trattoria toscana
Italian restaurantBelgrád Rakpart 13 (V.)
Web: www.toscana.hu
On the banks of the Danube is present for many years in Budapest, a Tuscany restaurant. Refined, good quality, good prices.
6° - Krizia
Italian restaurantMozsár street 12 (VI.)
Very good Italian restaurant. Here you can enjoy the excellent quality of the Hungarian products cooked Italian-style, adapted with great knowledge. To be noticed the meticulous precision in details. Talented.
7° - TG Osteria
Italian restaurantOcktober 6 utca 6 (V.)
Web: www.tomgeorge.hu
Excellent restaurant with view of the Basilica of St. Stephen. The talented Italian owner will advise you on the day's specials. The menu is vast, ranging from pizza to pasta, from meat to fish. Excellent value for money.
8° - Salaam Bombay
Indian restaurantGaribaldi utca 4 (V.)
Web: www.salaambombay.hu
A few meters from the famous Chain Bridge, there is an Indian restaurant. Wide variety of traditional Indian cuisine in an modern spot. Patience and care of the guests by the manager make it a magical corner of the east in Budapest.
9° - Taj Mahal
indian restaurantSzondi u. 40 (VI.)
Web: www.tajmahal.hu
10° - La coppola
Italian restaurantKárolyi Mihály utca 19 (V.)
Web: lacoppola.hu
La Coppola is a Sicilian restaurant that serves delicious dishes like stay in Italy: real authentic and tasty. The chef is Italian. During the weekday lunch you can taste a special menu with pasta dishes at a very budget price. The quality is outstanding and the portions are plentiful. A real piece of Italy in downtown Budapest.
11° - Pampas
Argentine restaurantVámház körút 6 (V.)
Web: www.steak.hu
Marvellous steaks and argentine wines in a lounge restaurant in city center. Good selection of wines from Argentina and Chile. Do you want more?
12° - Iguana
Mexican restaurantZoltan utca 16 (V.)
Web: www.iguana.hu
A corner of the Caribbean in the heart of Europe. Pubs Mexican restaurant to eat or drink something. Cocktails and typical Mexican cuisine just a short walk from Parliament.
13° - Trattoria Venezia
Italian restaurantJózsef krt 85 (IX.)
Restaurant and pizzeria, which offers a decent quality of Italian products cookedi with care. It also provides some typical dishes of the Venetian lagoon.
14° - Hai Nam
Vietnamese RestaurantOktóber huszonharmadika utca 27 (XI.)
Vietnamese food for asian people of Budapest
15° - Sao
Vietnamese RestaurantHolló u. 10, (VII.)
One of the best vietnamese restaurant in Budapest.
16° - Ape Regina
Italian buffet restaurantPodmaniczky utca 18 (VI.)
Web: aperegina.hu
17° - Trófea Grill
Buffet restaurantKirály utca 30-32 (VI.)
Absolutely the best buffet in town, in a cool and lounge atmosphere. You can spend only few euros and you can eat and drink..everything. Reservation is suggested. It's always full of people.
18° - Caffé Gianmario
Italian restaurantBajcsy-Zsilinszky út 35 (VI.)
Restaurant and italian pizzeria. It s the meeting point of Italian community in Budapest.
19° - The Bigfish
Seefood BistroAndrássy út 44 (VI.)
A corner of the sea in Budapest. Practically you choose a fish and have it cooked on the grill in a simple way but always tasty. The products are fresh and very affordable prices. Try it.
20° - Il terzo cerchio
Italian restaurantNagydiófa utca 3 (VII.)
One the most authentic italian restaurant you can find abroad. Il Terzo Cerchio is a reference point for Italians living in Budapest. Good.
Sunday Brunch
1° - La Brasserie Royale (Royal Corinthia)
French & Hungarian restaurantErzsébet körút 43-49 (VII.)
Web: www.corinthia.com
The best hotel in town that could not accommodate the best brunch you can find in the city.
Frame of great elegance, impeccable service.
Menu whenever reorganized according to the event. Also suitable for families due to the presence of a baby sitter in the room.
2° - Gundel
Hungarian restaurantÁllatkerti út 2 (V.)
Web: www.gundel.hu
Gundel restaurant is the most famous restaurant in Hungary. We talk about the restaurant where take all the the State's meetings. This restaurant has hosted the greatest personalities of the contemporary world by Pope John Paul II, all U.S.A. presidents, rock stars, directors and actors.
It's an icon of Hungarian cuisine. The area is clearly reserved, except on Sunday where you can take part of the best Sunday Branch of Budapest and for this reason I also wanted to include this opulent restaurant among those of my list.
3° - Araz (Zara Hotel)
International restaurantDohany utca 42-44 (VII.)
Web: www.araz.hu
On Sundays from 12.00 to 15.00 at Araz, the restaurant of the boutique hotel Zara is serving a Sunday brunch sober and taste. Suitable for families with children due to the presence of a baby-sitter in the dining-room.
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