PHOTOS: Renovated restaurant in Budapest City Park is stunning

Városliget Café & Restaurant can continue to operate the restaurant and the Ornamental Hall in the City Park Ice Rink (Városligeti Műjégpálya) building in Budapest. Thanks to the winning tender, the team that has been working there for 10 years has renovated two rooms of the restaurant to fit in with the Summer on the Lake – Winter on Ice concept. Check out how the revamped restaurant and café looks now!

Tender won: renovation implemented

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The Városliget Café & Restaurant, located in one of the most beautiful parts of Budapest, will continue to operate with renewed vigour after its contract was extended through a tender. In line with the seasonal operation of the City Park Ice Rink and Boating Lake, the operator, part of the Eventrend Group, wants to better highlight the attraction values of the facility, Lelépő writes.

The aim is to highlight the historical and cultural past, the built heritage and the fact that Europe’s largest outdoor ice rink can be found here. In terms of the interior, there is a stronger emphasis on the historical and atmospheric presentation of the sporting life of the city of Budapest.

Exceptional themes and decoration

It is an important ambition of the restaurant’s management to better match the atmosphere of the restaurant with the boating and skating experience. One hall, for example, is entirely dedicated to boating. In the middle of the room is a table for twelve, made from a real boat.

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There are also water lilies and willows in the hall. The room as a whole has been given warmer lights, adding to the romantic atmosphere.

Main hall is now a winter sports hall

The main hall has been converted into a winter sports hall. Everything here is focused on skating and winter activities such as sledging. The primary aim was to create an interior atmosphere reminiscent of the ice rink and the City Park. A variety of truly curio skates and skis, some of which date back to the 1940s, are displayed in the hall.

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The serving of featured dishes is also adapted to the local winter-summer activities: some dishes arrive in boat-shaped bowls, or even with a sledge, Lelépő writes. Dinner is made even more enjoyable by guitar music.

In terms of gastronomic offer, the leaders insist on the need to respond to the demands of the modern age while preserving the Carpathian Basin roots. Some of the restaurant’s recipes are taken from period cookbooks and recipe books of old cooks, combined with the knowledge and innovation of master chefs.

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