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Feb 17 '10
Come Back and Share Your Horror Stories of Gluttonous Thursday 2010, Assuming You Make it Out Alive
So if you're a regular restaurant-goer in Hungary you probably know that tomorrow marks the 2010 installment of Torkos Csütörtök, or "Gluttonous Thursday," when éttermek around the country lop 50% of the prices of regular menu items. Unlike in previous...
Dec 29 '09
Can Hester from London Beat Baraka's New Year's Offer? Unlikely Indeed!
Among the holiday greetings and other assorted messages dropped in our inbox over the past week were two interesting and related items having to with New Year's Eve dinner specials. Here's the first: Hi, I have been such a fan...
Aug 14 '09
First Look: The Emporio Armani Caffé
It's been so long since I first saw the "coming soon" signs for the long-promised Emporio Armani Caffé (follow link for contact details and user info) that I was slightly startled when a friend told me it had finally...
May 29 '09
Is Stand Bistro the Budapest Restaurant We've All Been Sitting Around Waiting For?
As I argued a while back, Hungary's ongoing - or at least looming - "restaurant apocalypse" may not be such a bad thing, as there is plenty of dead wood in the national eatery trade that deserves to be...
Feb 10 '09
A Pair of Valentine's Day Specials We Could Learn to Love
Unlike in the past, this year we're not going to go out of our way to provide loving coverage to all the restaurants in town offering special menus and extras for Valentine's Day, for the simple reason that we generally...
Jun 11 '08
Artesano Too Astonishing to Wait for a Proper Review
One of my biggest faults as a restaurant critic is that I always end up waiting forever to publish reviews of places I've been to, in part due to simple laziness and incompetence, but also because I keep thinking...
Dec 03 '07
A Toast to Everyone Putting "Tokaj... Off the Beaten Track" on Track
Back in October we attended a refreshingly excellent culinary event in the dining room of the A38 Boat launching an interesting promotional campaign aimed at educating local and visiting gourmands and restaurateurs about the glories of Tokaj wines. Called...
Aug 21 '07
Segal Walks Away
The good news is that our recent decision to open up a "recently-closed" tag for stories about restaurants that have thrown in the towel seems to have been prescient. The bad news is that we are now attaching it...
Mar 23 '07
Five Little Reasons Baraka Will Probably Stay on the Top 33 Forever
Posting may be light over the next few days, as we are currently in the process of re-working our "Top 33" list of Budapest restaurants, adding a few eateries that we think are among the best in BP, and...
Feb 21 '07
Wine News Flash: 2004 Gere Kopár to Debut Tonight at Baraka
In addition to yesterday's just-in-the-nick-of-time announcement of tomorrow's "Gluttonous Thursday" restaurant extravaganza, we've just gotten late word of another important local epicurean event that is happening even earlier, as in tonight. Last night we stopped in for a little bite...
Feb 14 '07
Last Call for Food-Lover-Lovers' Big Night
With just hours remaining until the big event, we have a pair of late additions to Monday's rundown of Valentin Nap specials being offered by some of our 33 favorite restaurants in Budapest. Maybe we're just in the mood, but...
Nov 27 '06
There is Simply No Way Segal Doesn't Make the Top 33
It's been more than a month since we scoped out Segal, which recently opened in the former District V digs of culinary wonderland Baraka (Note: See updates appended below). Unlike the normal laziness that leaves us sitting on reviews...
