festivals
Jul 23 '10
Northeast Town to Roast Inhabitants Alive With Heatwave Stuffed Cabbage Festival
The good news is that the kánikula (heat wave) that has recently had Hungary in a death-grip is set to ease a bit this weekend. The bad news is that the relief may not be enough for whoever is crazy...
Jun 11 '10
Why Isn't There a Stand Selling Magyaros Lepény on Every Square in Hungary?
Tuesday afternoon I stopped by Arriba Taqueria for a taste of their new fish tacos. Now I love tacos, especially fish tacos, and these were a real treat, in part because Arriba jefe for life Mo Ortiz was there...
Jun 07 '10
What's the Matter: Catfish Soup Got Your Tongue?
That's one big bogrács of what we are pretty sure was halászlé, at the mini-food festival which accompanied last weekend's Nemzeti Vagta ("National Gallup") horseracing show in Budapest. The fish could not be reached for comment....
Apr 06 '10
Foreigners Already Flocking to Upcoming Pálinka Festival
There are so many pálinka festivals these days in Hungary we generally don't bother doing more than adding them to our calendar of food and wine events. But the annual event held each April in the eastern town of Gyula...
Oct 07 '09
Is That a Sausage in Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Glad to be Blind Drunk?
By my count there are now three different annual pálinka festivals in Budapest. The smallest and least exciting of these - the so-called "Pálinka Promenád" - took place a few weeks back, and, frankly, it seemed so small and...
Sep 08 '09
Five Days of Wine Haze at the Budapest Wine Festival
The biggest autumn wine festival in Budapest, the 18th International Budapest Wine Festival, will kick off tomorrow and run until Sunday and as in previous years, the event will be held at the Buda Castle with the participation of 250...
Aug 28 '09
Drink and Dine in Disneyland this Weekend
Fans of Disneyland architecture and home-style Hungarian food will appreciate this quick heads-up for Traditions, Flavors, Regions Festival to be held in Budapest's Vajdahunyad Castle this weekend. The event is hosted by the Agricultural Marketing Board and promises the...
Sep 12 '08
Dark Clouds Threaten Hungary's Big Wine Festival, '08 Vintage
If you're in Budapest, you can probably see for yourself that the weather outside is not particularly cheery, and may have heard that the misery is expected to last pretty much all weekend. This puts us in a minor funk...
Sep 01 '08
They Say Wine Stimulates the Appetite, But…
The above pic was snapped at the wine festival recently held near Budapest's City Park by our Paris-based friend B.D., and is terrifying for several reasons that have nothing to do with the Spanish Inquisition-style implements being used to...
May 23 '08
Grab a Korsó and Fill Your Stomach at the Csaba Beer Festival and Knuckle Parade
The "Csaba Beer Festival and Knuckle Parade" ("Csabai Sörfesztivál és Csülökparádé") held at the Békéscsaba Sports Hall has been a tradition since first being held in 2001. This year's event started on Tuesday and runs through Sunday, and as...
May 16 '08
Truffle Festival Proves Hard to Track Down
The thing about truffles is that they are notoriously hard to find. Which is probably why the Hungarian Truffle Association - yes, there is such a thing - is holding its Truffle Festival on a Friday afternoon in Üllő, the...
Oct 05 '07
Another Weekend, Another Pálinka Festival
After last week's Pálinka Promenade, it's hard to think of new things to say about the Pálinka and Sausage Festival up in the majestic Buda Castle this weekend. So we dug out this pic illustrating how the modern, tech-savvy Hungarian...
Nov 10 '06
Everyone Head to the Pierogi Party!
Despite the conventional wisdom, if you are from Chicago and no longer live there, it is not pizza that you miss but Polish food. My favorite hometown restaurant, The Busy Bee (now closed), was a family-owned Polish restaurant under the...
Nov 10 '06
Who Was Szent Márton, and Why Is His Feast Day So Darn Delicious?
The last few days have been very bad ones for geese around Europe, and especially in Hungary, as butchers and cooks have finished preparing for Márton nap (St. Martin's Day), a traditional feast day that falls every year on...
Oct 20 '06
It's Sausage (and Face) Stuffing Time in Békéscsaba Again!
If Budapest is looking a little de-populated today, it's not just because people are clearing out to avoid the chaos of the 1956 commemorations. It's because, once again, the "Kolbászfesztivál" is already underway in the sausage capital of Békéscsaba....
Oct 17 '06
Thousands Flock to Annual Hungarian Pumpkin Festival
The mood was tök jó (that, believe it or not, is how Hungarian say "excellent") at the "Third International Őrség Tök Festival" in Őriszentpéter over the weekend, hirtv.hu reports. Several thousand visitors, including many from Austria, Slovenia and Croatia,...
Oct 17 '06
Thousands Flock to Annual Hungarian Egg Festival
Hungarian "master" chef László Benke and his team reportedly set a "Guinness" world record in Siófok over the weekend when they cooked tojáspörkölt (egg stew) for 3,500 people at the fourth annual Siófok Egg Festival. According to legend, the dish...
Oct 06 '06
If It's Got To Be A Wine Festival, It's Got To Be Tokaj
Although every winegrowing village in Hungary is drunk on it's harvest celebrations right now, the really big one is this weekend in Tokaj. The all day events, with a tradtion that goes back to 1932, are not restricted to getting...
Oct 04 '06
What We Were Eating While You Were Wasting Your Weekend Voting
Seemingly overlooked during the tense election weekend, the Festival of Hungarian Gastronomy quietly took place in Budapest's City Park last Saturday and Sunday, attracting a sparse crowd of hungry Magyars to sample good, straightforward Hungarian food. Little publicity preceded...
Sep 25 '06
Any Wine is Good Enough to Celebrate in Csákberény!
You may not have noticed it if you're a Budapest-bound city slicker - or are reading from a far away branch of the world-wide Internet vine - but Hungary's 2006 grape harvest has begun in earnest. We know this...
