Some of the worst restaurants in Budapest to avoid
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Budapest is a beautiful city with a bunch of amazing places where you would get what you want and need for the value of your money. Then there are those places that you should avoid at all costs.
As we are slowly getting out of the coronavirus pandemic, and the country and the hospitality sector is reopening, it is natural that everybody wants to go out and have a nice meal. However, just because you are already inoculated and have the immunity certificate and thus the possibility to not only sit on the terrace but enter a restaurant, it does not mean you should not be careful when choosing the place. Budapest has a ton of amazing restaurants where you get the most delicious food of a proper portion for a reasonable price, seasoned with a nice entourage and perfect service. Here is a list of the places I would recommend without a heartbeat:
On the other hand, just like in any other capital, Budapest also has numerous places that look great from the outside, especially with a smiling waiter standing at the door and inviting you in to have the best meal of your life. Then you go inside but very soon wish you had not done so.
There is one good side of the pandemic, though, that we managed to get rid of the
absolute worst Hungarian restaurant situated in Váci Street.
Here is a list of not the worst-rated restaurants of the Hungarian capital but of those for which you would never expect to see such a low rating on their Tripadvisor page.
Porto di Pest
Apparently, not every Italian restaurant is as good as you might think. Despite the name, Porto di Pest offers traditional food both from Hungary and Italy, besides many international options. They have daily menus, pizzas, cocktails. As many complained, all this for a very high price. At least this is what quite a lot of comments say on Tripadvisor. According to most of them, it is the “shame of Hungarian cuisine, uneatable food for unrealistically high prices“. Waiters are slow and have no idea about what foods to offer or what is actually this daily menu they advertise. It is especially surprising as the restaurant is situated in a very well-known place, at Liszt Ferenc Square, and it is surrounded by truly great restaurants I would personally recommend.
Pizzeria di Carlo
Another Italian restaurant. Being situated on Teréz körút, a very busy part of the city, in itself would make you think that the restaurant has hundreds of comments on its page. This is not the case when it comes to this pizzeria, as only 22 people took the effort to write about it. Those who did so and left a bad review complained both about high prices for “nothing special” and about the incredibly rude service they were provided. Waitresses were not only the opposite of friendly and welcoming but looked unprofessional as they failed to write down the correct orders and, as a consequence, one of them messed up all the drinks of a table. After paying and leaving in a rush, one customer noticed they were even charged a service fee. Maybe she just had a very bad day.
This is an absolutely shameful article. How dare you give air to the ranting and ravings of perpetually angry Trip Advisers users, renowned for their lack of patience and absurdly unrealistic standards. They typically have some kind of royalty complex and are grossly unfair to restaurants.
This article is a blatant example of the abysmal so-called standards of journalism today. Hang your head in shame and delete this rubbish.
Be Fair, why don’t you try to express your disagreement with the article in a polite and constructive way instead of using aggressive vocabulary and harassing the author?
My solidarity to Palma.
GUNDEL sucks, but the whole Hungarian Gastronomy is shit. Run by GREED like the whole country.