burgerwar
Sep 25 '08
Monster in a Box
If you've been wondering why there's been no progress in the Budapest Burgerwar™ for the last month or so, you're looking at one big reason. We won't even tell you where we found this particuar slab of lizard meat,...
Aug 01 '08
Budapest Burgerwar: We May Have a Loser!
Since we've just published a review of what may well end up to be the winner of the Budapest Burgerwar™, it seems fitting to pair it with a review of a burger that has a good change of coming...
Aug 01 '08
Budapest Burgerwar: We May Have a Winner!
Nothin' but the Blues, a one-time hot-spot on Krúdy Gyula in District VIII, was moribund for years before being renovated and re-opened sometime recently under new management. Despite having lived within a block, I had not ventured into the...
Jul 30 '08
Budapest Burgerwar: The Farger Brutál Burger
Even when not pitted against others in a savage competition like the Budapest Burgerwar™, restaurateurs often give dishes with lots of animal protein names that make them not only big, but big and mean. The local burgermeister which seems...
Jul 25 '08
Budapest Burgerwar: The Claro Texas Burger
It may sound cruel to say so, but with just a few exceptions, all the burgers I've eaten as part of the Budapest Burgerwar™ have been not just inferior to the average American restaurant burger, but something akin to...
Jul 18 '08
Asian Invasion New Distraction from Burgerwar Quagmire
You know what today is? It's the first anniversary (plus two days) of the launch of our still-unresolved Budapest Burgerwar™. As we've readily conceded several times, this war has turned out to be much longer - and, to judge...
Jul 18 '08
Budapest Burgerwar: The Goa Brie-Shitake Burger
With the Budapest Burgerwar™ now being joined with the Budapest Asian Invasion™ to form a massive, two-front campaign to eat as much foreign food as possible in the Hungarian capital, it's only natural that our next burger up is...
Jul 08 '08
Budapest Burgerwar: The Inter-Continental Corso Burger
As I recently explained, our desire to bring the now almost year-old Budapest Burgerwar™ to its long-overdue conclusion has meant putting aside all the "lizard meat" burgers and other burgers of indeterminate animal origin now widely available in Budapest...
Jun 09 '08
Budapest Burgerwar: If You Can't Name the Meat, It Can't Compete
In a review last week of a particularly notably delivery-only burger, I briefly noted how the proliferation of such burgers was one of the primary obstacles to a more speedy resolution of the Budapest Burgerwar™. But the problem isn't...
Jun 04 '08
Budapest Burgerwar: The Taco Express Cheeseburger
One of the reasons for the "ceasefire" that brought the Budapest Burgerwar to a halt for several months was the question of what on Earth to say about all the more or less interchangeable "delivery-only" burgers that ended up...
Jun 04 '08
Budapest Burgerwar: A Perfect Cheapo Burger Opportunity Ruined at Grund
It doesn't take a great restaurant to make a great burger. It doesn't even take a restaurant at all: some of the most lauded State-side burgers can be bought at stands or drive-thrus. It is such a simple equation,...
May 27 '08
Anniversary "McMadness" Reignites Budapest Burgerwar
As we reported last Friday, global burger giant McDonald's picked today to stage a giant sale to celebrate its 20th anniversary in Hungary, offering Big Macs for the 1988 price of just 43 HUFs, which thanks to two decades...
May 27 '08
Budapest Burgerwar: The Pampas Angus Burger
Since the day this site was launched, I've wanted to do a full review of the Pampas Argentine Steakhouse, which for just as long has been sitting pretty on our "Top 33" list of better Budapest restaurants. I don't...
May 27 '08
Feeling Diner: Homesickness Should Never Feel Like This
The first thing I noticed about the Feeling Diner, a new themed restaurant on Király utca in a bustling part of District VII, is the overly-bright sterility of the place. If an expensive private hospital ever wanted a 50’s-themed...
Dec 12 '07
Does Budapest Really Need a $50 Meat Pancake/Fried Slice Combo Dinner?
Followers of our (soon to be re-started) Budapest Burgerwar™ will know that we are giant fans of the Gresham Kávéház's Ft 4,200 hamburger. Yes, €16.50 is a heavy price to pay for a burger, but since it's hard to...
Dec 05 '07
Insurgent Readers Interrupt Temporary Burgerwar Cease-Fire
Some readers have recently written in to enquire about the status of our Budapest Burgerwar™, apparently worried that they missed the conclusion, or that the entire conflict had been quietly settled through some sort of Central European-style "negotiated solution."...
Nov 13 '07
Budapest Burgerwar: A Word from the Competition
Not particularly hot on the heels of the painstaking and comprehensive Budapest Burgerwar™, comes this serving of burger advice from Privátbankár.hu. After the obligatory couple of paragraphs on the origins of the hamburger (Hamburg, duh), the piece launching into a...
Nov 07 '07
Budapest Burgerwar: The Gresham Beef Burger
Having reviewed the Ft 4,250/€16.50 Kempinski Beef Burger back in August, we have by now fully digested the somewhat sickening idea that you can pay as much in Budapest for a hamburger as it might cost to take out...
Oct 31 '07
Budapest Burgerwar: The Clock Mexicanos Toro Hamburger
Before I start this Budapest Burgerwar™ review of the Clock Café burger, I must confess that before chowing down I had just raked in a nice poker pot and was in a particularly good mood. I should also disclose...
Oct 19 '07
Budapest Burgerwar: The Netburger Mammoth Burger
Hungary is not a big place, being 109th out of 232 countries on this list. But it's still big enough that anything billed as "the biggest in Hungary" is likely to be pretty big. So when we saw Az...
Oct 11 '07
Budapest Burgerwar: The Pár Perc Cheeseburger
This may be the first instance in the Budapest Burgerwar™ in which the burger has served as a trimming rather than an entrée. Pár Perc Krumpli ("Few Minute Fries") is, after all, a Belgian fry stand that also offers...
Oct 01 '07
Budapest Burgerwar: The Iguana La Hamburgeresa
After enlisting as a soldier in the ongoing Budapest Burgerwar™, the first question my commander asked was what I thought about Iguana. Apparently, most of the other members of the BB army already had strong opinions, positive or negative,...
Sep 28 '07
Budapest Burgerwar: The Balettcipő Deluxe Burger
The Balettcipő's entry in the ongoing Budapest Burgerwar™ was an obvious candidate, given this corner's gushing praise for the Hajós utca eatery's take on that other very American sandwich, the Philly Cheesesteak, as well as its otherwise deft hand...
Sep 21 '07
Budapest Burgerwar: The Cara Mia Standard Burger
With 15 burgers already down in the ongoing Budapest Burgerwar™, we are really starting to see some patterns develop. In addition to burgers seldom coming cooked the way they are ordered, we have also found far too otherwise excellent...
Sep 19 '07
Budapest Burgerwar: The Vista Café Vista Burger
Like the nearby travel agency that shares its name, the Vista Kávéház és Étterem has something for everyone. There is an elegant front room restaurant with a gallery, a comfortable, clubby backroom, and a few computer monitors for those...
Sep 12 '07
Budapest Burgerwar: The Beer Cellar Sörös Hamburger
Back in March, we decided that the then-recently-opened "Beef Club"/Beer Cellar was probably not worth "joining" due to our experience with a waiter who was so out of it we still wonder how he managed to find his way...
Sep 06 '07
Budapest Burgerwar: The Gerbeaud Pub Burger
The first 20 pages of Arthur Phillips' famous but divisive novel Prague is an ode to lounging at the Gerbeaud Café on tourist hub Vörösmarty Square, and considering the adjoining Gerbeaud Sörház offers a burger, I was hoping to...
Aug 23 '07
Budapest Burgerwar: The Kempinski Beef Burger
We never said the Budapest Burgerwar™ would be easy, and boy is it not. In addition to having to wrestle with all these burgers, we've faced certain troubling philosophical questions, such as whether to include burger chains among our...
Aug 15 '07
Budapest Burgerwar: The Cha-Cha-Cha Bodega Burger
The Budapest Burgerwar™ has recently seen both a disqualification and a non-starter, so it's nice to report back to HQ with a satisfied grin and a pair of hands still covered in the red stuff. Ketchup that is. The...
Aug 14 '07
Fajitas Fail to Compensate for Lack of Burgers, Bikers at Club 66
A seemingly simple sortie along the M1/M7 motorway to the edge of town and Club 66 resulted in spectacular and humiliating defeat in the increasingly desperate Budapest Burgerwar™. The reasonably stylish and surprisingly full restaurant modelled on the great...
Aug 10 '07
Budapest Burgerwar: The Norbi Update Double Cheeseburger
Even before we fired the opening salvos of the Budapest Burgerwar™, our "burgerwar council" had an important decision to make. Should we include familiar chain outlets or not? In the end, we decided not, for the simple reason that...
Aug 08 '07
Kultiplex Serb Grill Shrugs Off Burgerwar Disqualification
In the seasonal round-up of beer gardens, for some reason, Kultiplex often gets left off the list. But not only has Kultiplex long had one of the city’s liveliest summer kerts, in the context of late-night dining, it also...
Aug 06 '07
Budapest Burgerwar: Jeff's Burger Stand
Many readers protest that most of the "mid-priced" (Ft 1,000 to Ft 2,000) offerings sampled so far as part of the Budapest Burgerwar™ fly in the face of all the basic principles of the burger: a hunk of meat...
Jul 30 '07
Budapest Burgerwar: Menza Still Hasn't Ground What I'm Looking For
A glance at the user comments for Menza in the Caboodle directory shows it to be one of those places that has as many detractors as it does fans, not to mention a definite downward trend. When it first...
Jul 25 '07
Budapest Burgerwar: The Sunny Sajtburger
It's been a long time since I've been home to NYC, which means I have had to endure my fair share of crippling food cravings in Budapest. The craving for a good ol' beefy American cheeseburger definitely hits often...
Jul 24 '07
Budapest Burgerwar: The Hungry Samurai
Having bowed down to the superior burger knowledge of Wilbur Mercer in the forum, I followed his recommendation and trooped off to Buda's Éhes Samurai to find out if it really is the best burger in town. The Hungry...
Jul 19 '07
Budapest Burgerwar: The Lazza Pizza Guru "Big Burger"
When I agreed to volunteer for the duty in the ongoing Budapest Burgerwar™, I did so on certain conditions, the first being that I wouldn't have to pay Ft 3,000 for a burger at some high-end joint, even if...
Jul 18 '07
Budapest Burgerwar: Champs' Beef Burger Knocks Out Hollywood Diet
It had happened one too many times. Somebody had pointed out that I was on my way to becoming one of the biggest players in the local entertainment business - and it had turned out they were talking not...
Jul 17 '07
Budapest Burgerwar: "Wikiburgers" Leave Mushroom for Improvement
Our Budapest Burgerwar™ has taken in America and Scotland, now it's Hungary's turn. The Wikinger Gyorsétterem on Móricz Zsigmond körtér usually comes highly recommended by Hungarians for two reasons. First, the burgers are large and well-packed and second, the...
Jul 17 '07
Budapest Burgerwar: The Kaledonia Edinburger
Since we kicked off our Budapest Burgerwar™ with an all-American burger, we thought it might be nice to follow it with something all-not-American. So off we went to the District VI Scottish pub and restaurant variously known as the...
Jul 16 '07
Budapest Burgerwar: The World-Famous Friday's™ Burger
For the first battle in our just-launched Budapest Burgerwar™, we decided it was only fitting to visit the place logic might suggest would have the best burger in town: a branch of the local franchise of cheesy American-themed global...
Jul 16 '07
The Budapest Burgerwar is On!
Here at Chew.hu we've never been particular comfortable with the idea of "best of" restaurant contests. As we've discovered time and time again with our own "Top 33" list of Budapest restaurants, ranking or grading restaurants is a very subjective...
