norbi update
Feb 09 '10
Government Busts National Fitness Guru for Peddling Bogus "Diet" Pastries
Who says there is no food justice in Hungary? According to a long and probing story yesterday on index.hu, Hungary's competition office has slapped a Ft 3 million (roughly €11,000) fine on "Fitness" Norbi Schobert (left, with his wife and...
Feb 13 '08
Hungarian Biggest Losers Are the Biggest Winners
The Hungarian version of the hugely successful "The Biggest Loser" franchise, TV2's "A nagy fogyás", has set a world weightloss record for the show. Between them, the contestants lost almost 500 kilos in five months, with fatties from Australia coming...
Sep 27 '07
No Room for Fitness Norbi in Race For Lazy Diners
After the spectacular failure of the Norbi Update burger joint on Moszkva Tér and Norbert Schobert's other embarrassments (apart from his name, of course), the Budapest Court has ordered the liquidation of the fitness guru's meals-on-wheels company Norbi Egészségkonyha ("Norbi's...
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...
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...
