Budapest trip, again

[winter]

Life has interfered with blogging, alas. On the upside, I'm off tomorrow evening for three days in pretty, pretty Budapest, with pretty, pretty musicals to watch. And a certain blond Hungarian to try and kidnap ;)

I'm taking the train this time, night trips both ways, and between that and the fact it's Budapest, I've about as much nerves as with a trip to the seaside that I take every summer. Sure, I don't speak the language, but no-one expects me to speak it, and the city's so nice. I have my favourite bakery, my favourite pancake place, and among my plans are stocking up on a Hungarian hand cream and spices. It's not a strange city anymore.

And once I'm back, expect more squee about musicals :)

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[valancystar.livejournal.com]

Ooh, tell me your favourite pancake place! I'd like to try Hungarian pancakes if I have time while I'm there...

Have fun! And I look forward to musical squee. :)

[winter]

It's on Raday Utca (between Kalvin ter and Bakats ter), nearer to Bakats ter, on the western side of the street :) I don't remember the name, but it's a mock-Italian place that still does very good Gundel-palacsinta.

Mind you, it's one of the few places I've found that does decent food at all. I have bad luck with Budapest restaurants :P

[valancystar.livejournal.com]

We mostly ate at Italian restaurants which were lovely. Good food, lots of it, and tolerably priced. If you want, I can ask my friends if they remember the names and locations of our favourite places. Of course, in Finland we don't have that many good restaurants that aren't ridiculously expensive, so I don't know how our standards match with those of others, but at least we enjoyed what we got in those places.

[winter]

If you can please ask them? I think I had really bad luck on account of trying to find eatable Hungarian food ;)

[valancystar.livejournal.com]

One of the places was called Via Luna, and the address is Nagysándor József utca 3., district 5, 1054 Budapest. Lots of yummy pizzas and pastas and very nice tiramisu among the desserts. ;) We went there more than once and were very satisfied. There was also another, I'll see if someone else remembers its name and tell you...

[valancystar.livejournal.com]

Don't know if you will still get this, sorry I forgot to get back to you - actually, I also forgot to ask my brother, but I think the other Italian place was called Don Pepe. They seem to have several outlets in Budapest, the one we visited was at Nyugati tér.

Anyway, have fun!

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

That place opposite the theatre is very good for savouries :) They chicken salad was absolutely stunning - the plate is as big as your head :D

[winter]

They certainly had good cake :) Will try that for a lunch or two.

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. The cakes are stunning :D The chocolate cream one I indulged in was incredible. layers of cake with layers of different filling and chocolate icing with chocolate and cream on top. It technically would have killed me if I hadn't been in pain beforehand ;D