Két Szerecsen

If you are looking for a nice and cozy restaurant for a cold autumn day, the Két Szerecsen can be a perfect choice. In TripAdvisor's Travelers Choice of 2015 the Két Szerecsen was selected among the first 10 restaurants in Budapest. After the delicious dinner I had, I have to admit I agree with everyone who has voted on this restaurant.

In the interior and in the style of Két Szerecsen, you can find some characteristics of the French Bistros. The menu is more diverse than that: there are Hungarian, French, Moroccan, Italian and Thai dishes as well. What they all have in common are the high-quality ingredients and the traditional tastes with the touch of modern gastronomy.

Is it a familiar feeling for you when you are looking at a menu, and you are sure that anything you will order, it will be perfect? I love it! At Két Szerecsen it happened like this just because of the menu, the interior, the atmosphere and of the things I read about it. As the result of this feeling we tried the following dishes (all of them are perfectly composed and delicious):

Prawns in white wine sauce

Spinach soup with crispy bacon and poached egg

Moroccan lamb shoulder, couscous with eggplant and mint, honeyed onion and yoghurt

Mangalitsa shoulder with vegetables

Unfortunately I haven't visited all the the 10 restaurants from TripAdvisor's Travelers Choice list, so for now I can "only" say that the Két Szerecsen is one of the best restaurants of Budapest where I have been. The wonderful dishes, the atmosphere and the service will bring me back.

Akademia Italia Budapest

It's a restaurant, it's a breakfast place, it's a shop, it's a cooking school and it's Italian. The Academia Italia was opened right next to the St. Stephen's Basilica.The first thing which will probably make you enter and see what else it has in store for you, is the interior of the restaurant.  Every little detail is perfect and designed with the utmost care by an Italian designer, from Turin. Of course, not only the design, but all the furniture came also from Italy.

On the menu you can't find any main course but you can choose between soups, salads, pastas, pizzas, risottos and desserts. It's a culinary paradise where you can come at any time and for sure you will find something ideal. And of course, all the ingredients are coming from Italy, included such a basic but essential products as the flour and sugar.

Breakfast at Akademia Italia:

Cornetto with vanilla cream

Omelette for breakfast

Dinner at Akademia Italia:

Octopus carpaccio with olives and celery

Pizza with speck ham and fontina cheese

Gnocchetto with Charlotte onion, tomato and Parma ham

Coppa golosa: Cream dessert with sponge cake, mascarpone cream and hot chocolate sauce

And if you would like to bring home some Italian delicacies, just go to the basement of the restaurant where you can buy products which are coming directly from Italy.

The cooking classes will be held here

As the atmosphere of the restaurant is so appealing, I am looking forward to go back for visiting a cooking class, for buying some Italian wine or for having a great dinner there.