
The team at Spago Budapest, located in Matild Palace, has received a huge honor as – in addition to retaining its Michelin recommendation – this year Imre Rácz, the restaurant’s Head Sommelier, has been awarded Sommelier of the Year in the Michelin Guide Hungary 2023, for his unrivalled passionate dedication and outstanding knowledge of exclusive wines.

Festive season begins at Matild Palace
As the most magical time of the year arrives, the elegant and stunning halls of Budapest's premier luxury hotel, Matild Palace, come alive with a plethora of lavish programs and enticing offers.

With top wines from micro wineries, wine cocktails and a renewed menu, N28 Wine and Kitchen is making a splash in the city centre
According to the classics, wine is the drink of the gods. But it is one thing to drink wine, and quite another to know and enjoy it. The concept behind the N28 downtown wine restaurant is to showcase as widely as possible the offerings ...
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Spago by Wolfgang Puck offers the city’s most unique selection of sushi
With the arrival of spring, the sushi menu of Spago by Wolfgang Puck Budapest has debuted thanks to the collaboration of Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group's Culinary Development Director Tetsu Yahagi and Executive Chef István Szántó. The menu, created using the freshest and best ...

Star chef Wolfgang Puck was catering the biggest film awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday, and 3 days later he was tasting Zsófi Mautner’s dishes in Budapest
Star chef Wolfgang Puck, who has been responsible for the menu of the reception following the biggest American film awards gala for decades, was back in Budapest to get to know Hungarian gastronomy

“Flying elephant” is back: after three years, Baltazár Grill reopens
Three years after becoming one of the many victims of the coronavirus pandemic and being forced into closure, Castle District dining attraction the Baltazár Grill has reopened its doors this mid-March.

Michelin Guide to extend list for the whole of Hungary
The Michelin Guide will announce its extended list of restaurants selected from across Hungary on Nov. 3, the Hungarian Tourism Agency (MTU) said on Monday.

Only exclusive champagne bar opens
More than 50 French varieties await bubbly lovers
"Come quickly, I am tasting the stars!" is what Dom Pierre Perignon is said to have shouted when he invented champagne. The origin of the phrase is questionable but the sentiment is not, and bubbly French champagne is popular with just about everyone, enchanting ...

InterContinental Budapest Sunday Brunch
Caught in two minds, both OK
Outside the picture windows the weather is absolutely filthy as winter turns on its ugliest face. Passers-by on the Corso are rugged-up to the max and bent into the howling wind. Snow threatens. Inside, looking out from the InterContinental hotel’s restaurant, we are perfectly ...

El Asador de Pata Negra in District VI
Smoky flavours from Spain
If you are looking for Spanish food in Hungary, you will surely come across Pata Negra. The brand covers more than only the two excellent tapas bars in Pest and Buda. Vilmos Losits and Szilveszter Mókusz opened another high-class grill restaurant, El Asador de ...

Caviar & Bull in District VII
360 degrees of culinary adventures
Caviar & Bull has been one of the top places for gourmets and connoisseurs for the past four years.
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Take-home treats from à table!
Feasting French-style
While we await the reopening of restaurants – one of these days – the French bakery and pâtisserie with the rather confusing name of “à table!” has joined the home-delivery ranks, or házhozszállítás as this service is known in Hungarian.

Chocolate and politics side by side at Parliament Square
Delectable museum delivers sweeter promises
I really enjoy coming across unusual and unexpected things, such as recently when I was passing through central Pest on the number 2 tram, taking in the high splendour of the Duna River and the opposite Buda side until my arrival at equally splendid ...

Interview with former director of Italian Michelin Guide Fausto Arrighi
A man respected and feared
Year after year the Volkswagen-Dining Guide – Hungary's oldest and only gastronomical platform – awards excellence and pinpoints the best restaurants. In 2020 it has again included an internationally recognised expert in the final decision-making to achieve an objective and professional verdict: Fausto Arrighi. ...
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Take-home treats from à table!
Feasting French-style
While we await the reopening of restaurants – one of these days – the French bakery and pâtisserie with the rather confusing name of “à table!” has joined the home-delivery ranks, or házhozszállítás as this service is known in Hungarian.

“Flying elephant” is back: after three years, Baltazár Grill reopens
Three years after becoming one of the many victims of the coronavirus pandemic and being forced into closure, Castle District dining attraction the Baltazár Grill has reopened its doors this mid-March.

Chocolate and politics side by side at Parliament Square
Delectable museum delivers sweeter promises
I really enjoy coming across unusual and unexpected things, such as recently when I was passing through central Pest on the number 2 tram, taking in the high splendour of the Duna River and the opposite Buda side until my arrival at equally splendid ...