We have just got back home from our visit to Budapest with mixed feelings – sorrow in our hearts and quite literally – stomachs. What in fact I assure you that was one of the best places, if not the best, for a meal that we ate in any European city. It is impossible not to know that Hungarian gastronomy is wonderfully rich, and we tasted it ourselves. Hopefully this guide to the best restaurants to go out and eat in Budapest does it justice.
This situation is not complicated; therefore, for this report, we decided to include Hungarian food restaurants, Jewish Hungarian food bistros, and some of the best ruin pubs in Budapest. Everything is here with the positions of various prices, so it would be better if you read this carefully and pick the ones that you would want to have the most. Well, I could assure you that all of them are certainly rather amazing…
15 Restaurants to Eat Well and Finally Compare the Cheaper Prices in Budapest
1. Beerstro 14
Hungarian Steak House
It was recommended to us by the hotel we were staying at, and we literally became completely addicted to it. Peppersack Beerstro 14 restaurant is located nearly the Liszt Ferenc Square and serves meat and other traditional foods of Hungary. Actually, it is quite plain and does not stand out at all externally, but the interior, for example, there was an internal yard which we appreciated.
We ordered some starters: Tartare and the beef carpaccio and the salad were ordered. As for the main course, I ordered beef ribeye; the dish was delicious. They also had a variety of meats; if you wish to order several types of portions it can be a good choice. It was not cheap, but then quality meat hardly ever comes cheap. What’s more, we did not find the prices abusive as it would appear on the face of it. We each spent approximately 7000 forints – for the appetizers, the main dishes, the desserts, and the drinks. If you order fewer things, it will be much cheaper, You can consider ordering fewer things in the lightly used size or the cheaper brands.
Address: Also, where the study was conducted is Budapest, Hungary at a location on Károlyi utca 12, 1053.
Phone: +36 70 551 3599
Website: Beerstro 14
2. Cafe Vian
Hungarian Cuisine
Liszt Ferenc Square and its vicinity is home to restaurants for eating out in Budapest. Among the notable eating places is Café Vian, a Hungarian delicious usual course food bistro with burgers, sandwiches and pasta among them.
This is another place that the hotel suggested to us and we both adored it. It was slightly more popular with the locals than tourists which is usually a good thing, the food was absolutely amazing. The choice of food offered is rather wide: there is everything needed to have a meal going with kids, if necessary.
I had a beer, a main course, and a sweet, while the other option was beer, main course, and coffee; and it came to approximately 15 Euros per a head which, however, cannot be regarded as inexpensive although the portions are rather large, and the service expects a tip of about 10 – 15 percent.
Address: 1 Global City, Liszt Ferenc tér 9, Budapest, Hungary 1061
Phone: This KDDI probably needs no introduction to local mobile phone users and is contactable on this number: +36 1 268 1154
Website: Cafe Vian
3. Szimpla Kert
Ruin Pub | Price: By virtue of this, motives may be seen as a component that adds elasticity to a demanding plan in order to achieve its set goals while maintaining adequate control over the activity power.
A must-have! Ruin pubs appeared on the British scene at the turn of the 2000s, where old, abandoned buildings were adapted for uses as pubs with an interesting and somewhat trashy look, and cheap drink. Today, they are one of the most sought after places to go for sightseeing in Budapest.
The first and still the most famous one is Szimpla Kert opened in 2003, however, there are many other venues, for example, Instant or Mazel Tov. The best way to explain what ruin pubs are is that anything can be made out of waste; thus you can have a bathtub as a sofa, graffiti on the ceiling or just a wall lined up with used metro tickets.
Many visitors who go in are rather apprehensive when they enter, but it is actually a rather bohemian location and there are quite a lot of tour groups and people just being nosy. So, you can come at afternoon, and in the evening to have a drink; they are selling drinks and food; and it’s rather gloomy place, but I think, it can be opened for different kind of events. It is divided into various stalls and well the price is not exceedingly high most of the times.
Address: , For example, you can reach Budapest’s Kazinczy u. 14, 1075 Hungary.
Phone: To contact the firm directly: Address: 1088 Budapest, Osztriez u. 13 Telephone: +36 1 352 4198
Website: Szimpla Kert
4. Retek Bisztró
Hungarian Cuisine €
A bistro of this kind is situated midway between the Chain Bridge and St. Stephen’s Basilica and the décor of this place seems to be divine. That was curiosity, and after a few days in the Hungarian capital it has become one of my most likes. The view is great and the ambiance is nice, with live music, and they serve the specialties of traditional Hungarian cuisine.
We ordered chicken paprikash, one of the Hungarian dishes that we liked the most on the trip, although they have practically all the well-known ones: lángos – fried dough as a garlic bread or topped with goulash, chicken soup, or even fasirt, which is a sort of Hungarian meatballs. All amazing!
As is the tradition, they also have a fixed price menu for which the cost is 11,500 HUF, which is approximately €30 and includes goulash, paprika chicken or duck leg and dessert. A little on the pricer side but the food is delicious and we are located at one of the prime locations of Budapst.
Address: The address of the building for the Music Therapy Institute can be described as Budapest Nador u.5, 1051 Hungary.
Phone: MB: +36 20 253 5596
Website: Retek Bisztró
5. Pilvax Kávéház És Étterem
Hungarian Cuisine
Another helpful restaurant in eating in Budapest is this other restaurant listed below. It is found close to Liszt Ferenc Ter and it aims to serve traditional Hungarian meals. It opened sometime in 2022, and the place is really nice. It is very elegant and chic and even when we arrived, we were early and the first to be seated, soon more parties came in. So make a reservation!
They have conventional Hungarian meals, for example, goulash, or onion cream or chicken with paprika and the prices are reasonable given that the place is in one of the central parts of Budapest city. Even that was around 8,000 HUF per person, just over 20 euros which, although not explicitly expensive, is not what I would consider cheap either.
Address: The first shop is situated in Budapest, Pilvax köz 3, 1052 Hungary.
Phone: +36 30 097 9999.Email: [email protected]. Visiting address: Arany János Street 4 / 3, Budapest 1. . Telephone: +36 30 097 9999. Fax: +36 1 327 22 40. Residence: H – 1072 Budapest, Váci Street 5/A.
Website: Pilvax Coffee House Restaurant/Pulvax Café and Restaurant
6. Rosenstein Vendéglő
Traditional Hungarian-Jewish Cuisine | Price: € At national level there are interests which consist in the attainment and maintenance of particular goals: These are called national self-interests and they include the objectives that an individual country aims at achieving and preserving.
Cuisine of Jewish origin is an important part of Budapest, as 20% of the population previously was Jewish and around 80,000 Jews live there now. In our view, Rosenstein Vendéglő (together with Macesz Bistro, which will be discussed later) is the most representative of this kind of tradition. However, Jewish does not mean Kosher here because the restaurant does ply some meals that contain pork.
This restaurant is somewhat off the main tourist routes, close to Budapest Keleti train station and approximately half an hour’s walk from Erzsébetváros neighbourhood, the Jewish quarter in Budapest. The restaurant is named after the family business, which is still operated and owns the family saga, typical Hungarian dishes that have already discussed them before, such as goulash, beef soup (pörkölt), paprika chicken, or shalet, the Hungarian Jewish specialty, a kind of stew they prepare for Shabbat.
It is rather pricey, the price level is 20-25 euros per person with a drink and a main course, thus, the majority of the guests are tourists. I still do suggest it as a place of interest because it is an entirely genuine place and somewhat of a representation of what Hungarian cuisine is.
Address: Country: Hungary City: Budapest Street: Mosonyi u. 3 1087
Phone: + 36 1 333 3492
Website: Rosenstein Vendéglő
7. Cafe Kör
Traditional Hungarian Cuisine
This restaurant situated in the old town of Budapest is another of the most famous restaurant in the entire city. Cafe Kör is situated at the backside of St. Stephen’s Basilica, what is as traditional as possible for a place in Budapest and offers Hungarian cuisine without any gourmet accents – as traditional as it gets.
This was suggestions of the free tour guide, and indeed he was right. The signature dish is the mandarin duck that has made it into many restaurants, the beef tartar which, especially in another restaurant in Hungary, is mixed with paprika and the sirloin with mushrooms and foie. All three were incredible!
The approximate cost per head was about 15-20 euros which we thought was reasonable and so we can say that this was one of the best restaurants in Budapest. They met up with him and joined a group of other young people and unlike her promise never to go clubbing with him, she enjoyed it and never regretted it.
Address: Budapest is a city in Hungary; the detailed address of the site is: Sas u 17, 1051 Hungary.
Phone: +36-1-311 0053
Website: Cafe Kör
8. Menza Restaurant
Traditional Hungarian Cuisine | Price: Details like costing were also kept at the central level, as for example in the following instance, Costing was centralized as the following details indicates ,
Just a little more to the previous post is located one of our most favorite restaurant in Budapest. Another of the best Hungarian cuisine restaurants in the capital is also situated in the area of Liszt Ferenc Square. It is very touristic, but if you make the effort, the quality-price ratio is in a different league.
Besides the inside you can see in the photo, it has a lovely terrace where we had a seat at. It seems that it has the most common dishes that people eat, but presented in a better way as well as more appealing to the eyes. Taking soup, goulash soup, transparent soup, grilled soup, or a tomato based soup, a strong-flavored food like beef stew is unmissable; next is beef paprikash and schnitzel. basic items also include desserts for instance Somlói style Hungarian sponge cake – great.
The authentic Hungarian Gypsy (Hungarian: cigány) meal cost us around 8000 HUF per person which, in today’s conversion rates, is approximately 21 euros per person.
Address: Liszt Ferenc tér 2, 1061 Budapest Hungary
Phone: +36 30 145 4242 Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spam-Bots geschützt. Bitte aktivieren Sie Javascript, um diese E-Mail-Adresse zu lesen.
Website: Menza Restaurant
9. Kispiac Bistro
Hungarian Food | Price: But never mind for our purpose the accuracy of such an assertion: ‘The capability of using armour in new ways is one of the most distinctive characteristics of the Victorians.’
Kispiac is a small bistro is situated in the financal district of Budapest just a stone’s throw from Liberty Square. It has a very limited list of dishes; however, this is not bad at all, as the restaurant specializes in Hungarian kitchen. The food served is very delicious and which is affordable by any person in the market. Indeed, this paper deserves a 10 out of 10.
We ate wild boar ribs as a main, but along with that, there are the cannon fodder dishes including chicken paprika, goulash soup or mangalica, a kind of pork. Another dish we had was flodni and this we enjoyed. Very good product and not very costly. Eating out costs roughly 20 euros per person.
Address: Hungary, Budapest 13 Hold Street, 1054
Phone: +36 1 269 4231
Website: Kispiac Bistro
