chew news
Feb 16 '09
Your Big Blind Hungarian Wine Date Awaits
It's been almost six months since the smashing debut of the Bitch, Moan and Wine Society, the shadowy (i.e. not website-enabled) tasting group/purchasing club spearheaded by "Treehugger" Dan Swartz of the eponymous bookstore/café chain and "Bottlehugger" Ben Frieday of...
Nov 12 '08
Hungarian Cuisine Still Worth Killing Trees For (and Celebrating!)
If you're reading this page there's a good chance you are a) interested in food and wine; b) in Budapest; and c) capable of communicating in English. But even if you aren't, you are welcome at the first-ever non-virtual...
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...
May 22 '08
We're Sure This is a Retek, Just Not Sure It's a Sörretek
When I decided that what Chew.hu - and the world - really needed was a comprehensive English-language encyclopedia of Hungarian food and drink, I assumed the work involved would be painstaking but relatively uncomplicated. After all, how difficult is...
Mar 27 '08
Passing the Flame, and Stirring the Pot
As was hinted over the weekend, some big changes have been brewing behind the scenes here at Chew.hu. And after what may have been an interminable wait for those both inside the kitchen and patiently waiting outside, I'm happy...
Mar 21 '08
Can You Find the Hidden Húsvét Treasure?
Along with all the other great food-related Easter traditions in Hungary, there is also the tojásvadászat, what most English-speaking types know as the "egg hunt." And this weekend, we're having one. Not, of course, a real tojásvadászat (can't risk getting...
Dec 12 '07
We're Done Choking Down Our Greens, Now Back to Something a Little Tastier
Sorry for the lapse in posting. We were busy cooking up a (mostly) unrelated project, which is now ready to eat. Feel free to enjoy a taste, or to dig deeper into its nutritious greenness. We'll be back with our...
Nov 09 '07
Reader Tips, Automatic TIP, Topple Menza from "Top 33"
When our "Top 33" list of Budapest restaurants was started by our sister site Pestiside.hu back in the fall of 2004, the idea was simply to publish a regularly-updated register of our favorite dining spots in the Hungarian capital. Not...
Sep 24 '07
Happy Birthday to Chew, Happy Birthday to Chew...
This morning we woke up feeling a little strange, both washed-up but somehow a bit wiser, and after a few minutes we finally realized why: It's our birthday! Hard as it is to believe, it's been a whole year...
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...
Jul 10 '07
Hungarian Culinary Crisis (III): The Chew.hu Manifesto
Several weeks ago, when we published a translation of the so-called "Culinary Charter" addressing the alleged crisis in Hungarian dining and culinary culture, we promised to publish our own thoughts on the matter in "a few days." Well, it took...
Jul 05 '07
We're Dancing as Fast as We Can
Apologies for the light posting, but we've been light-staffed over the past few weeks, owing to an early-summer break, this time in Sicily, where the above somewhat gruesome (okay, really gruesome) picture from the rabbit section of the Catania...
Jun 04 '07
Ciao Budapest (I): Welcome to Italy Week at Chew.hu
No, the above pics are not from some just-opened Italian restaurant in Budapest. Instead, they are a few shots we took last week during our whirlwind, eight-day eating tour of north-central Italy. (That's stuffed zucchini flowers from near Venice...
Apr 26 '07
It Was Only a Bad Non-Burek Dream
We seldom publish hand-wringing corrections here at Chew.hu, as we are generally careful about making mistakes, and it's hard to get too excited about food-based factual slip-ups. But we feel obliged today to make a point of pointing out that...
Dec 15 '06
Sick Food (I): Dingy Hungarian Restaurants Safer than Sleek London Eateries?
Apologies again for the light posting this week, but we lost out appetite for writing due to a minor but icky bout of food poisoning, in addition to this. Happily - at least for Hungary - we actually got our...
Sep 10 '06
About Chew.hu
Chew.hu is an English-language website devoted specifically to Hungarian food and wine. It generally publishes three items every weekday - one at each mealtime - for a total of 15 articles per week. Unlike most second-language publications focusing on food...
