Where to Eat in Budapest?
Budapest Restaurants

Our Budapest Restaurant Guide helps you to choose the right place to eat, suitable to both your taste and budget. Budapest has the advantage that you can have good meals at affordable prices.

The city has some exclusive restaurants too where you have to dig deeper in your purse.

A bad restaurant experience can ruin your whole visit.Let us give you a helping hand using our local knowledge. Of course we haven't had the chance to test all Budapest restaurants, but we'll do our best to gather reliable and useful information to help you decide where to eat.

Budapest has more than 1,000 restaurants and other eateries. Besides restaurants offering Hungarian dishes, you can taste every major world cuisine, as well.

You'll find exotic Budapest restaurants like: Mongolian, Russian, Middle Eastern. Sushi fans won't stay hungry either, there are a couple of Japanese restaurants in Budapest. Budapest has now a few vegetarian restaurants too.

If you're in a hurry and don't mind eating in a fast food restaurant you have a wide selection to choose from including MacDonalds, KFC, Burger King, Pizza Hut and others.

The eateries on the upper floor of the Great Market Hall offer good alternatives to fast food retaurants. You can have substantial and tasty Hungarian dishes at these places at reasonable price.

Although you can fine dine in Budapest restaurants at reasonable price, it's good to know in which price category belongs the restaurant you choose to have your meal in. To help you we indicate the price category (prices are per person for an average three-course meal, without tip) after all the restaurants listed here:

Most retsurants display their menu including the prices next to the entrance or in the window so you can view it from outside.

To have a delicious meal you won't necessarily have to go to the most expensive Budapest restaurants. They are mostly very famous places like the Gundel or Kéhli Restaurant and you have to pay for the name as well.

How to Choose a Budapest Restaurant?

Of course I recommend you trying the Hungarian cuisine first. The best way to get to know a nation is to taste its traditional dishes. I can assure you that Hungarian cooking is not all about goulash.

See our recommendation of Hungarian Restaurants in Budapest.

If you're price conscious see our list of Cheap Restaurants in Budapest.

Tipping in Budapest Restaurants

In restaurants we usually give around a 10% tip to the waiter. When you want to pay for your meal, signal to the waiter. He comes to your table and hands over you the bill.

Review the bill and feel free to tell the waiter if you don't understand something. Usually we don't live the tip on the table, but round up the bill by 10 percent (less or more, depending on your decision).
For example if the bill is 2800, give a waiter 3000.

Pages Related to Budapest Restaurants

Hungarian Restaurants in Budapest- a selection of good restaurants offering authentic Hungarian dishes.

Best Restaurants in Budapest - includes mostly our and our friends and relatives' favourite eateries by their location within the city.

List of some of the best Indian Restaurants in Budapest

Cheap Restaurants in Budapest

Hungarian Cuisine - history and characteristics of Hungarian cuisine.

Hungarian Wines - introduction to Hungarian wines and wine regions