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serving panini, quiches, pasta (from 890Ft), as well as cheesecake and other cakes.
Mon-Fri
8am-5pm, Sat 9am-3pm.
Butter Brothers Bakery
IX, Lonyay utca 22 0620 978 6868
butter-brothers.com
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A congenial place to start the day,
Butter Brothers
is a small bright café shop with a couple
of tables and a few stools, with a cheery team serving coffee and excellent pastries. They also
bake their bread, and their milk is delicious. They have a small lunch menu, and sandwiches.
Mon-Fri 7am-7pm, Sat 8am-1pm.
RESTAURANTS
Borbiróság
IX, Csarnok tér 5 1 219 0902,
borbirosag.com
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map
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The marvellous
“Wine Court” offers one of the most affordable and enjoyable introductions to modern Hun-
garian cuisine anywhere in the city. The menu is by no means exhaustive, but that doesn't
detract from what is an exceptional medley of dishes; try the Hortobagy pancake for starter,
followed by grilled duck liver with caramelized fruits, and if there's still space, get stuck
into a portion of cottage cheese dumplings. The wine list, on the other hand, will leave
you completely spoilt for choice, with some of Hungary's finest vintners represented. Mains
2200-5000Ft.
Mon-Sat noon-11.30pm.
Fülemüle
VIII, Kőfaragó utca 5 1 266 7947,
fulemule.hu
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Popular and relaxed
family-run restaurant a few minutes' walk from Rákóczi út, serving typical dishes of middle-
class secular Jewish Budapest:
sólet
(beans), goose soup with matzo dumplings, and duck leg
with cabbage and “broken” potato. Mains 2500-5000Ft.
Mon-Thurs & Sun noon-10pm, Fri
& Sat noon-11pm.
Múzeum
VIII, Múzeum körút 12 1 267 0375,
muzeumkavehaz.hu
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map
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This grand
nineteenth-centuryrestaurant,adornedwithLotzceilingfrescoesandZsolnaytiles,isanother
old-school venture working hard to retain standards in the face of stiff competition. For the
most part, it succeeds, with a line-up of core Hungarian classics like breaded Mangalica
pork chops with mashed potato, and grilled goose liver with Tokaji Aszú cream. Mains
3300-7000Ft.
Mon-Sat 6pm-midnight.
Rosenstein
VIII, Mosonyi utca 3 1 333 3492,
rosenstein.hu
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map
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Don't be put off
by the dingy location, in an anonymous side street near Keleti Station: the family-run
Ro-
senstein
offers a most satisfying dining experience. Give yourself plenty of time to digest
the menu, where you'll discover dishes as diverse as wild boar
ragout
with forest mush-
rooms,legofwildhare,andbreadedcalf'sfootwithtartarandchips.Bookingadvised.Mains
3000-4500Ft.
Mon-Sat noon-11pm.
