It was going to be hard to beat our dinner at Essencia in Budapest, but our dinner at Babel was another 10 out of 10. We walked from our hotel using our gps to navigate and ended up on the wrong street in front of a dive bar. From there we stopped using google maps […]
Read MoreI’m a sucker for Roman history and will take any and every opportunity to see Roman ruins when I’m travelling. Today, we visit Aquincum. The area of Aquincum was originally settled, sometime between the third and forth centuries BC, by the ancient Celtic tribe called the Eravisci. Little is known about the tribe, but it […]
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Hungary has been on my list of places to visit for a very long time. I don’t know exactly why other than my grandma used to make goulash and I always thought it was a Hungarian dish. What I didn’t know is that Grandma’s goulash was her own invention and nothing like Hungarian food! Then […]
Read MoreThere are a few elements of the Salt restaurant that I love – fresh juice pairings concocted and made in house, fresh herbs collected often by Chef Toth himself, the service….. And then there’s the food, which should be at the top of the list, but for me sadly, it is not. As we sat […]
Read MoreLeaving in the morning, we had more wonderful stops as we made our way towards Budapest, Hungary. Not too far outside the city of Cluj Napoca, we made a really interesting stop at the Water Mill Bologa where a local family is making an effort to preserve a historical watermill. Here we met the 6th […]
Read MoreOriginally we were going to fly from Bucharest to Budapest. Then, one night when I couldn’t sleep, I realized that the driving time wasn’t a whole lot different than flying given all the time involved in driving back to Bucharest from Brasov to fly to Budapest. It was an adventure trying to cancel a refundable […]
Read MoreWhat do you get when a Hungarian marries a Portuguese and they open a restaurant? Delicious food and a Michelin *! That’s the origin of Essencia Restaurant in Budapest, Hungary. Located on a quiet street in Budapest, Essencia offers three tasting menus, one Portuguese, one Hungarian, and one that’s named May 17, the day their […]
Read MoreArriving at the Ritz Carlton in Budapest, Hunary after a long day of roaming around northern Romania, we were hungry and ready to eat! Uber doesn’t operate in Hungary so we called a cab and gave him the name of the restaurant. He got lost and attempted to deliver us to a closed store. Bob […]
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