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🇭🇺 Budapest
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Every Place Bourdain Visited in Budapest
5 placesNew York Café
Dohány utca
Over 125 years old, it was the nicest cafe in the world at the time it was built where artists and writers gathered. Nowadays, they have lots of foie gras on the menu. Tony had the pork throttle stew.
Bufe Falatozo
"A smoky, chilly working class joint," Tony describes of this restaurant. "A golden pancake, heaped with chicken livers, and covered, nay, drowned, with a rich, deeply satisfying sauce with bone marrow." He also tried the venison stew and the HUGE schnitzel this place is famous for.
Belvárosi Disznótoros
Király utca
Tony tried the blood sausage with braised red cabbage and pickles.
Gellért Thermal Bath
Kelenhegyi út
A huge and beautiful thermal bathhouse Tony went to with Vilmos Zsigmond, a cinematographer who worked on movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind. (He died in 2016.)
Vígszínház Street
Vígszínház utca
Tony saw a gypsy band called Budapest Bar play and then ate with the musicians. They had chicken paprikash, whole perch roasted in bacon, stuffed cabbage filled with goose meat and slow-cooked, goulash.
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