Abandoned
plans to move the Prime Minister’s Office from parliament to the Agriculture
Ministry building opposite have seen HUF 15.6 million (EUR 66,510) spent so
far, and HUF 33 million (EUR 140,694) is still owed for planning and
reconstruction work, the government spokesman Dávid Daróczi said last week. Continue »

Even chefs
who are eager to experiment would probably be wary of combining curry sauce
with feta cheese. At Ramada Plaza’s Ambrosia Restaurant in District III on
Mondays pasta sauces are created which do not appear on any menu, because here
guests get involved in the process.  Continue »

After
drinking four beers and some wine, three Swedish tourists were presented with a
bill for HUF 445,000 (EUR 1,893). They refused to pay, and were then allegedly
menaced by three members of staff at a “place of entertainment” on Dohány utca.
Two members of the party were led to a cash machine and forced to settle the
extortionate bill while the third tourist was held hostage by the remaining two
employees. Continue »

We haven’t
always longed for a paternal state in the way that we do today. Following the
political and economic change of regime, the majority of us had had enough of
collective ideals, whether they were a question of state-cooperative ownership
or a bottomless hat from which the state authorities distributed what they had
earlier plundered.  Continue »

The
“What’s up?” exhibition at Műcsarnok continues to display an overview of contemporary Hungarian art until 31
August.  Continue »