Giulia Ferraro
Markets, lángos and long lunches
Based in Budapest, District IX.
Giulia moved from Bologna to Budapest in 2014 and spends her mornings at the Central Market Hall arguing over paprika grades and túró. She reviews the whole ladder, from a corner lángos stall to the tasting menus off Andrássy út.
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Eating on Budapest's castle hill above the Danube
There is one proper kitchen inside the palace walls, and the Bastion arcade has the window tables. Two streets back the rooms are plainer and the bill drops.
Where a coeliac can actually eat in Budapest
A dozen Budapest kitchens cook nothing but gluten-free food. Here is what to order in each, what it costs, and how to build a day around their opening hours.
Traditional Hungarian Food in Budapest at Local Prices
Where to eat sólet, pörkölt and lángos in Budapest for what Hungarians pay, with the opening hours and booking rules that decide whether you get through the door.
The Great Market Hall at Dawn: Budapest's Belly and the Breakfast That Fuels the City
A local's-pace guide to eating through the Nagy Vásárcsarnok in 2026 — where the lángos is worth the queue, which counters are for two people not twenty, and what to order at each one.
The Gilded Cup: Budapest's Coffee Houses and the Century They Shaped
How Budapest's coffee houses became the parliament of a city's writers and revolutionaries — and where, more than a century on, you can still order the exact torte they argued over.
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