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Retro Big Mac By McDonald's Hungary

On the 20th years jubilee more than 1500 people bought almost 2600 Big Macs for retro prise HUF 43.  The first McDonald's restaurant opened in 1988 in Budapest, on the...

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First two Marché-Mol restaurants are open

Since 26 Mai two Marché-Bistro works on both side of M1 by Mosonmagyaróvár.   Every Marché-Bistro can serve 120 people in the same time, in both restaurant 50 staff wait...

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Tornyos csárda Opening on Midsummerday in Lázár Park

The new venue will provide a much bigger area and freedom for socializing, while the quality catering offers a new culinary experience for the guests: oven, open fire grill and...

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HUF 11 billion Hunguest Hotel developing

The company is planning renovating six of its hotels in the country, most of them will be 4 stars, wellnes and conference resorts. The developments include the complete renovation of...

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Széchenyi étterem

The centre of the historic city of Esztergom has been practically reborn in recent years. This restaurant in the city centre has been reopened with a new owner and a...

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Change in role

According to Éda Pogány from Coca-Cola Magyarország, per capita consumption of ice teas has produced a more than tenfold increase in Hungary since 2000, exceeding 10 litres in 2007. –...

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Kicsihuszár Mûvészklub-Restaurant

The owners have created not only a restaurant, but a true artists’ club as well. The place is open from 05,00 PM till 04,00 AM and the kitchen is open...

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Sauces and gravies: from basics to dressings

The majority of Hungarian chefs use instant sauces from time to time, or on a regular basis. An increasing umber of special and exotic flavours are available. According to Zsuzsanna...

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Artesano

Kisko Garcia, the chef of El Choco in Cordoba and known as the rejuvenator of traditional Spanish cuisine has played a major role in launching the restaurant. As a result,...

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Montecafé kávézó és cukrászda

Fortunately, the number of small, independent cafés like this one located in Krisztina körút is growing. They have good espresso, sandwiches, original Italian gelato and an atmosphere reminiscent of the...

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La Porta di Taormina

As a representative of Italian gastronomy, La Porta di Taormina focuses on flavours from Sicily. They have over twenty pizzas, twenty pastas and another twenty meat dishes, including traditional Hungarian...

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Is there a limit?

How far can a group of companies expand, without some units being depreciated? According to Tamás Sztanó, one of the owners of the Leroy restaurant chain, there is an answer...

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Scores in the GaultMillau system

The first “Restaurant and wine guide 2008” based on actual testing and the GaultMillau system has been published. Nearly 1,400 restaurants have been included, with points awarded for food, the...

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Velvety and trendy

Smoothies have officially arrived in Hungary. A Hungarian owned enterprise is making this drink in three stores at the moment. What happens when we mix fruit juice, milk shake and...

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Who is the king?

In 2008, Lou Lou and Café kör failed to repeat their success achieved in 2007, when they finished among the second 50 in the “Best 50 restaurants of the world”...

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Flood

The development of luxury versions of everyday products can result in the appearance of surprising brands, especially in segments like bottled water. It is quite an extreme offspring of health...

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New chairman for Étrend

Three chairmen for Étrend Egyesület (the organisation of chefs) in three years and all giving up within a year. Péter Mózes was the last in to give up in February....

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Restaurant on-line

We respect restaurants which take the trouble of regularly up-dating their web sites. We only discuss good web sites of good restaurants so that everybody can learn from the mistakes....

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Franchise news

New general secretary for Hungarian Franchise Association from 1. April. Dr. István Kiss was succeeded by dr. Katalin Mandel, managing director of DAKEXPO Kiállításszervező és Tanácsadó Kft. Her company is...

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Eating cocktails?

Cocktails are experiencing a true renaissance in the majority of more developed markets than ours. Restructuring of popular drinks, rather than inventing new flavours is the present challenge. Though we...

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Expanding universe

Franchising is regarded as a type of business within retail where risks are relatively low. 25 out of the top 100 franchise ventures on the list compiled by Entrepreneur magazine...

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With a Slavic soul

The secret of Russian cuisine is in the Slavic soul. During Soviet times, it was not easy to understand for foreign guests how their hosts managed to get hold of...

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Going to America

Lázár Kovács, one of the most talented among the young representatives of Hungarian cuisine has achieved many things in Hungary. He has become a media star and his own restaurant...

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Ambassador of Russian cuisine

At the moment, there is only one Russian restaurant in Hungary. Unfortunately. However, everybody knows Arany Kaviár. It owes its success to Sasha, alias Sándor Nyíri, the incredibly modest and...

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Working abroad… not a piece of cake

30 year old Antonio Fekete, a former holder of the Olympic title among chefs has experimented with working abroad on several occasions. He is just back from Switzerland. More money...

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Reasons and directions

It is possible that the R&D people of Red Bull only responded to the challenge posed by energy drinks launched by the big cola companies. Their answer to the challenge...

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Lumbini teaház és keleti étterem

Decoration is the sole expression of style in many designer restaurants, with gastronomy neglected. This is not so in Lumbini teaház, where the Nepal-Tibet style is quite understated in decoration...

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Self defence

British pub owners find it outrageous that retail chains sell alcoholic beverages at depressed prices in order to attract even more customers. They have joined forces to protest against this...

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Cascade

Cascade had once been a successful restaurant in Buda hills. Now, the name is the same again, but the concept is new. The interior has been redesigned into a multifunctional...

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Brave new world?

There are few political forces which dare to argue with the often demagogic principles advocated by health campaigners, like a total ban on smoking everywhere. One of the most bizarre...

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