Zsidai Group ready to go as restrictions eased
Better dining is one advantage of restaurants lockdown
Zsidai Group’s 13 Budapest restaurants used the long pandemic shutdown to prepare new menus and concepts, and the six of them that have terraces were ready to swing straight back into action when outdoor dining reopened on a sunny Saturday, on April 24, followed ...
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.
Haste would compromise results achieved so far, state secretary says
Restaurants to reopen only once mass vaccinations under way
Reopening restaurants and other catering facilities will depend on how quickly Hungary can get hold of vaccines and have its population vaccinated, Zoltan Kovacs, the state secretary for international communications and relations, told MTI on Monday.
Kempinski’s festive dinner takeaway
Luxury to your doorstep
Christmas is a time when a little over-indulgence can be excused, and with the unforgiving coronavirus pandemic forcing a restaurant lockdown, perhaps a gourmet meal delivered to home or office doors is one way of restoring some of the cheer of yuletides past. Kempinski ...
Legendary restaurant has gilded heritage over more than a century
Déryné Bistro makes best use of pandemic
Plans to rejuvenate District I’s Déryné restaurant were already in place in spring this year when the COVID-19 outbreak happened and the lockdown period was enforced. So what better time to carry out the thorough revamp and bring back to life the splendour of ...
Hungarian Bocuse d’Or team qualifies for world final
At the Bocuse d'Or European championships held in Tallinn, Estonia, Hungary's team of chefs led by Istvan Veres qualified in ninth place for the finals to be held in Lyon in June 2021, the head of the Hungarian Bocuse d'Or Academy, Zoltan Hamvas, told ...
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 ...
Émile returns after an enforced absence
Nice to have you back where you belong
Like everyone else, an old friend was knocked out of action by illness in mid-March and it is only now that we can enjoy his company again, very nearly three months later. Émile is back but still being careful, lest the ongoing health dilemma ...
Award for gastronomical sustainability – Restaurant Pajta in Őriszentpéter
“We would like to be trendsetters”
One of the highlights of this years' Volkswagen-Dining Guide Award Gala was a new category in which the Dining Guide Römerquelle Sustainability Award was given to the restaurant that implemented a real farm-to-table concept in their operations. The first winner of this to-be-annual award ...
Interview with Zoltán Herczeg
“Today it is the virtue that really matters. The world of arrogant, eccentric chefs is a thing of the past.”
We talked to Zoltán Herczeg, publisher of the Dining Guide, about the Sustainability Award and the "green" approach in Hungarian restaurants.
