“It’s beautiful here. They say that, of course, that Budapest is beautiful. But it is, in fact, almost ludicrously beautiful.”

Pléhcsárda

Restaurant · Angyalföld

"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. Bourdain had: schnitzel with potato chips, beer, pancake covered with chicken liver and bone marrow sauce, venison stew.

New York Café

Restaurant · Budapest District VI

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. Bourdain ate: goose liver terrine, pork throttle stew. Lunch date: Peter Zilahy, poet and performing artist.

Belvárosi Disznótoros - Király utca

Hungarian restaurant · Belvaros

Tony tried the blood sausage with braised red cabbage and pickles.

Belvárosi Disznótoros

Gellért Thermal Bath

Spa · Gellert

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.)

Old Kőrössy Fish Restaurant

Restaurant · Szegedin

Tony went to a restaurant from Vilmos' childhood, where they ate this fish chowder called halászlé made from pike from the river and seasoned with paprika and other spices.

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.