Vapiano

by Landon Gildar

I'm American in Budapest, so the thing I miss the most from the Italian-American kitchen in Hungary is seafood. Specifically, Linguine and clam sauce.
Now, it's too much to hope for that shellfish would be available at reasonable prices in a landlocked country, so I was flexible in the clam part of the deal. But they had linguine, along with about a dozen other shapes I noticed. This is EXTREMELY RARE in Budapest, where the choice is mainly between spaghetti or penne.

They also had a seafood sauce that was cream based, instead of the more common tomato based seafood sauces. They added some strange vegetables, but it was really nice nonetheless.

I'm not a fan of al dente, I like extra parmagiano, the girl was nice enough to indulge my specific tastes.

Check it out. Ask for weird things. Until now it seems they are rigidly sticking to certain formulae, in an ideal world the workers would be more open to accomadating the customers' own tastes.