| 7 "Shirtsleeve Gourmet" Restaurants where you can still Invite your Visiting CEO from Cincinnati |
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‘Shirtsleeve' indicates here that these places have no desire to overwhelm their guests by their ambience. Service is straightforward and friendly. Cordon Bleu is not (usually) mis-spelled on their menus - a mark of their culinary ambitions. Café Kör V. Sas utca 17. A very intimate and original classic. Kör" means „circle" in Hungarian, buti it also hints at the French coeur, - no coincidence. It looks and feels a French bistrot, one that has been here for a century - a praise difficult to deserve in present-day Budapest. In a small side street of Basilica. Fészek VII. Kertész utca 36. Off Grand Boulevard, a unique artists'cub that goes back to 1901. In a very bad shape, except for the inner courtyard, which is partly covered by a colonnade. Still popular with retired actors, old painters, "somebodies". Reasonably priced, always a real Budapest experience. Kisbudagyöngye III. Kenyeres utca 34. The décor of "Small Pearl of Buda" is a cross between post-modern and fin-de-sičcle. The designer ransacked all the low quality antique shops and the Ecseri flea market. It adds up to a very elegant and intimate atmosphere. Külvárosi Kávéház IV. István utca 26. Újpest ("New Pest") used to be an independent township swallowed by Greater Budapest in 1950, as District IV. This restaurant (the name means "Café Outskirts"opened in December 1993, in a charming, almost intact part of Újpest, where no less than seven streets meet. The fireplace is lit from 1 November - guests are encouraged to feed the fire themselves. Marquis de Salade VI. Hajós utca 43. That is a place where East meets West in the culinary sense, Paris with the Caucasian region, to be more exact. It is worth to sit to one of the t ables of the cellar, prefer ably into the inner ones. It has always been run by an immigrant lady from Azerbaidjan, who speaks by now excellent Hungarian still with a charming accent. Mosselen XIII. Pannónia utca 14. "Mosselen" means "mussels" in Flemish - it is a Belgian beer paradise, with no less than 8 Belgian beers on tap, and 25 more in bottles. Luckily the food is not Flemish, but French. A very nice and almost always crowded neighborhood place, what is also patronized by some celebrities of the area and the actors of nearby Vígszínház. Rosenstein VIII. Mosonyi u. 3. A favorite gourmet place between a railway station and a police barracks - far from the good restaurants: an improbable place, to put it bluntly. Favored by media people and the Budapest gourmands, those gourmet who hate salads and love rich traditional, rich Hungarian dishes, and a lot of it. (The latter smile at the faux elegance of the place.) But the menu is great, and reliable. |
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