Restaurants
Újváros Bisztró, Szarvas
The innovative contemporary Hungarian restaurant Újváros Bisztró of Bencze Szin, the owner, in Szarvas, is located on the bank of the Holt-Körös River. It has been included in the selected list of Hungary’s best restaurants, the Audi-Dining Guide. The cuisine combines cultural and culinary traditions with forward-looking and dynamic solutions. This idea is also reflected in the setting and the restaurant’s elegant design, creating a unique atmosphere.
Babel
In the heart of Budapest’s downtown they are offering a memorable fine dining experience. Their cuisine represents the gastronomic and cultural heritage of the former Monarchy and the Carpathian Basin, and their unique wine list unusually contains only white items, many from the Tokaj region.
Borkonyha
The Michelin-starred place, which functions as a restaurant and wine bar, is both a French bistro and a Hungarian family restaurant, as well as a wine shop and bar. The cuisine is rich in flavors, the wine selection is wide and flexible (200 types, mostly Hungarian wines), and the service is personal and informal.
Rumour
Rumour is a unique restaurant concept. A special and one-of-a-kind dining venue, where during the experience our guests can enjoy a multi-course tasting menu, getting familiar with the colorful range of dishes and rare ingredients of Hungary. Like in most “chef-table restaurants”, the most spectacular elements of food preparation take place in the open kitchen, in the middle of the “stage”.
Spago
Spago Budapest is characterized by its cutting-edge gastronomic concept based on seasonality. The gastronomic journey is completed by fusion and locally inspired dishes, as well as classics reflecting American, Mediterranean and Asian influences.
Laurel
Laurel Budapest is a restaurant in downtown Budapest that offers a tasting menu and is based on experiential gastronomy. Its wine list includes more than 200 items, with a particular focus on upcoming Hungarian wineries.
Textúra
The progressive fine dining cuisine uses domestic ingredients and goes back to old, traditional procedures and combines this with international ingredients and techniques. The result is an experimental cuisine, in the dishes you can always discover the play with the structure and texture of the ingredients, lightness and spontaneity.
ARANY KAVIÁR ÉTTEREM, BUDAPEST
A gourmet restaurant with a long history, but continuously renewed, which represents Russian cuisine with its special, caviar-based creations. Its carefully selected wine list received international recognition this year, with which Arany Kaviar is now considered a restaurant with one of the best wine selections in the world.
FAUSTO’S
One of Budapest’s best and most popular restaurants in the heart of the city center. Traditional Italian restaurant with a rich selection of Hungarian and Italian wines.
“Elegant wine, like elegant food, is for me a balance of flavors, emotions and the surprise caused.”
Maul Gergely, restaurant manager.
Kollázs, Four Seasons Hotel Gresham, Budapest
Vibrant and inspiring contemporary European brasserie & bar. The KOLLÁZS gastronomic experience emphasizes creative combinations in every detail, through exciting combinations of modern European cuisine interspersed with Hungarian specialties.
Felix
Located in one of the most historic areas of Buda, in enchanting Varkert bazaar Felix is waiting for you to discover! The restaurant is Michelin recommended, and holds Wine Spectator award. An iconic meeting place in the heart of Buda, where contemporary art and outstanding gastronomic experiences go hand in hand.
Déryné Bistro
This was the first café and confectionery to open specifically for residents of Buda, back in 1914. The former confectionery now serves its guests as a restaurant, and has always occupied a unique, central role in Budapest. The elegant, Parisian atmosphere of the renewed Déryné is ideal for enjoying excellent cocktails and their tasty dishes as well.
Gundel
Hungary’s most famous and only Hungaricum restaurant is a must-see, the most famous and bucket-list place in Budapest and Hungarian gastronomy! Today’s Gundel Restaurant is back to its original mission, which is “Gundel for everyone”! Gundel builds its dishes on tradition, especially the National 11, the eleven iconic dishes that everyone regards as the most important part of Hungary’s culinary heritage. Through them, the restaurant shows visitors from abroad what Hungarians like, what they eat, and what they consider the basis of Hungarian cuisine.
Onyx
While Onyx undergoes an all-round transformation you can dine at Onyx Műhely, where the creative team of Onyx showcases experimental dishes. The Onyx Műhely gourmet dining experience is an interactive and entertaining way of preparing and serving multiple course menu around a sixteen-seat table with a large ‘dinner map’ in the middle. The goal of Műhely is to present progressive Hungarian cuisine which is based on the intertwining of art, science and gastronomy and that uses local ingredients.
Platán Gourmet, Tata
The two-star Platán Gourmet restaurant is clearly a concept that embraces high-quality gastronomy. The style of the kitchen represents the cosmopolitan way of thinking. The restaurant’s impressive food compositions, dishes interspersed with colorful flower arrangements, are dreamed up by Michelin-starred chef István Pesti.
Restaurant 42
A star was born in Esztergom in 2023! The Restaurant 42, only one hour drive away from Budapest, received a well deserved Michelin star last year.
The assured, skilful cooking has a Hungarian heart and honest flavours but it is also modern, interesting and playful.
RESTAURANT SRA BUA, KEMPINSKI HOTEL DAS TIROL, JOCHBERG-KITZBÜHEL, AUSZTRIA
The best ingredients from Tyrol and the world’s most exciting flavors in one place. Unique Eurasian dishes in a first-class Austrian restaurant.
PRINS HENDRIK TEXEL - HOTEL ÉS BUNGALOWPARK TEXEL
A hotel and bungalow park located next to the dunes and the sea, the restaurant which uses fresh local ingredients and has a limited but seasonally changing menu and a special wine list.