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Restaurants
Budapest is full of a surprising variety of restaurants. You will find all the major cuisines of the world represented here, and there are restaurants for every taste and budget. The city offers good restaurants of whatever type you fancy, whether you feel like eating world-class food in a grand ambiance, or scarfing some fast food on the street. Some of the best restaurants are located in little hidden niches throughout the city, so it pays to go off exploring. Budapest has many small, cozy traditional restaurants with a friendly atmosphere and carefully-prepared food. The Hungarian cuisine on offer ranges from hearty and greasy to genuinely gourmet. You might notice that waiters are not particularly friendly in Budapest. This is considered normal, so it you do get a cheerful waiter, appreciate your luck. People tend to eat out earlier in Hungary than most other countries. Lunch is usually the main meal of the day, served from 12 pm - 2 pm, and for dinner in most restaurants you should always plan to arrive before 9 pm.
The Hungarian Cuisine
Traditional Hungarian cuisine has many things in common with Slavic food, and has also been influenced a good deal by the Turks. The most typical foods used in main dishes are beef, chicken, pork and fish, and are often cooked in lard. Accompanying the meat dishes are usually a variety of vegetable dishes. Classic seasonings that give a characteristic Hungarian flavour to the food includes onion, garlic, paprika, and sour cream. Paprika is one of the most popular spices used in Hungarian cuisine, and comes in both sweet and hot varieties. Hungarian food is generally rather heavy, and can be quite spicy depending on what you order. If you feel like something lighter, order one of the country’s well-known soups.
Soups are a very important part of Hungarian cuisine, the most famous of which is goulash or gulyás as they say in Hungary. Other popular types of soup include fish soup, Jókai bean soup, and Újházi chicken soup. Soups are often served as an accompaniment to dishes such as stuffed cabbage with sausage (Kolozsvári töltött káposzta), or crepes stuffed with meat (Hortobágyi palacsinta).
Hungary also produces many good wines, of which the Hungarians are very proud. Some common native white wines are the sweet Debröi hárslevelü, or Szürkebarát from the north. Their most famous red wine is called Bikavér.
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