Budapest ranked among best brunch spots in Europe

Hungary’s capital, Budapest has been crowned one of the brunch capitals of the EU, with reviews for restaurants serving brunch in the capital scoring 8.68 out of 10.

That’s according to new research by Uswitch.com/mortgages, which analysed customer ratings of over 235,000 restaurants across each European capital, to ultimately uncover the best city to enjoy an alfresco brunch this summer.

The results:

Budapest, Hungary has the 10^th highest-rated brunches in Europe

Budapest, Hungary takes 10^th place with a brunch rating of 8.68 out of 10. With 993 restaurants available, brunch in the Hungarian capital will set you back just €17.92, the fourth cheapest of all EU capitals analysed, and almost three quarters (70%) cheaper than Copenhagen, Denmark (€61.28).

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Athens, Greece has the highest-rated brunches in Europe

The Greek capital of Athens ranks first, with an average brunch rating of 8.88/10. With 1,136 restaurants to choose from, the average price of a brunch in the ancient city is just €16.66 on average, the fifth cheapest of all capitals analysed. This is just 24 cents more than a brunch in Bratislava, Slovakia, the cheapest in Europe (€16.42 on average). 

Croatia’s capital, Zagreb, takes second place with a brunch rating of 8.85 out of 10. Despite the high customer reviews, the average price for a meal at one of these top brunch restaurants is the seventh most expensive in Europe, at €32.48. This is almost double (94%) the average price of a brunch in Athens (€16.66).

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The Mediterranean capital of Malta, Valletta, takes third with an average rating of 8.83/10 for their brunch restaurants. Not only does the capital offer some of the best brunch spots across the continent, but it is also the second highest-rated European capital for vegetarian restaurants as well, scoring a whopping 8.84/10.

Lisbon, Portugal takes fourth place with a brunch rating of 8.82 out of 10. With 2,010 restaurants available, brunch in the Portuguese capital is not only highly rated but also reasonably cheap, costing just €20.48 on average. This is 8% cheaper than the neighbouring capital Madrid, Spain, however, the Spanish capital offers 9% more restaurants (2209).

Bratislava, Slovakia is the cheapest capital for Brunches

Placing seventh with a brunch rating of 8.74/10, Bratislava, Slovakia, is also the cheapest place in Europe to enjoy the breakfast and lunch combo. Costing an average of €16.42 for a meal, 75% cheaper than Copenhagen, Denmark (€67.89) the Slovakian capital not only excels in brunch restaurants, but cafés too – with a café rating of 8.94/10, the fifth highest of all European capitals analysed.

Methodology

1. Uswitch.com sought to determine the best European cities for food lovers.
2. By analysing over 236,834 restaurants with four stars or more from over 1,356 cities across Europe, Uswitch.com were able to scrape 47 million user reviews from a reputable restaurant review site.
3. Each restaurant within the sample contains attributes including location, cuisines, meals offered, user ratings and price range. These attributes were used to identify restaurants rated with four or more stars that fall under the following categories: vegetarian, café, pub, fast food, and brunch.
4. To accurately map each restaurant to a specific European city, restaurant coordinates were reverse geocoded using the 2021 boundary line dataset, collected from Eurostat.
5. The Eurostat shapefile does not have boundary lines for these European countries. This explains the missing data for the capital cities of Andorra, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Moldova, Monaco, Russia, San Marino, Slovenia, Ukraine – Liechtenstein was removed from results as its results were based only on 19 restaurants.
6. After analysing the restaurants’ price ranges, places with an average price which falls above €130 were omitted from the study. Equally, cities with less than 49 restaurants have been removed from the data set.
7. Average user ratings of brunch restaurants were scraped, and final ratings were shown out of 10 to help differentiate similar ratings.
8. For the purpose of this press release, only EU countries were considered for the study to be able to accurately compare the prices analysed.
9. Data was collected on 20/9/21 and is subject to change.

Source: uswitch.com/mortgages/