Hell's Kitchen

Just the best place we visited while in Budapest.

Extremely friendly, fun and attentive service.

Very, very good goulash soup! The best I ever had.

Note that this restaurant does NOT charge for service automatically. Which is rare in Budapest.

I'd come back any time and can recommend it highly.

Authentic Hungarian restaurant in the city center. Staff was very polite and helpful. Food was delivered quickly and it was warm. We choose Hungarian specialties and we made a great choice. I highly recommend this place.
Also sitting outside provided heating lamps.

Nice place, nice food, nice atmosphere and very nice traditional Hungarian gypsy music. We specially looked for a restaurant with a Hungarian live music for our marriage anniversary. Very much satisfied with everything. Service was quite professional, food and environment was also quite good. We liked the band very much. They walk around the tables, ask the guests where they come from and play songs of their country. They played a song from our country too. The name of the band is "Norbert Salasovics" We highly recommend this restaurant.

Excellent traditional Hungarian food and atmosphere.
Everything about food was great, especially the desserts, each day after 18 they have live traditional music. The best of our experience was the nice staff, especially our waiter Pisti who was very friendly, prompt and just great. I would recommend the restaurant anytime for an authentic experience.

Great traditional cuisine. Great service and atmosphere. Excellent selection of local beer and wine. Live traditional music. Moderate prices. Sincerely recommend visiting this restaurant.

We just came across this lovely restaurant on our first night's stroll. What a great find, atmosphere, service, food, food, and the wonderful group playing music, Norbert Salasovics and his orchestra of 2 violins, a zither(?) and double bass! Waiters Istavan and Norbert gave us excellent service, and we loved our meal of grilled pork rib, and the beef stew with cottage cheese pasta. So hard to choose ! No room for dessert! Reasonable prices !

What a find!
There was a great buzz to the place with live music playing, we even had Vivaldi.
Can recommend the Goulash in bread which is accompanied by a fiery sauce if required.
Friendly and quick service.
We had a great Hungarian evening.

Upon my arrival in Budapest, this the first place my friend, who lives there, took me for lunch. The well-decorated interior offers a cozy atmosphere. The waiters were also very friendly. All the meals we had were local, and my Hungarian friend assured me they were authentically prepared with a traditional taste. I was pleasantly surprised that all the wines were available by the glass. My only concern was the smell from the open kitchen, but we got used to it within a few minutes. This place is quite expensive compared to the local standard. I wouldn't say it's overpriced, but you might consider it as premium.

Enjoyed Hungarian cuisine, Hungarian wine and palinca.
Reasonable prices for the location an service.
Also there was live music, traditional with instruments.

It's my favourite place in Budapest!! Amazing food, wine, live music, decor, and Istvan service was absolutely outstanding! I ll be back and will bring crowds with me xxx Thank you

Very well located restaurant with delicious traditional Hungarian food. We ate lunch here and chose the gulyas soup and Turos Csusza (pasta with traditional low salted cheese and fried bacon). We also drank some local beer which was very tasty and refreshing. The staff is extremely friendly and polite. Dogs are allowed outside (maybe even inside but we did not ask and are offered a bowl of water from the restaurant. The service is pretty quick. The prices are a bit high but given the location and the quality of the food they offer we would totally recommend checking this place out and giving it a try.

Real nice experience ! We came back several times for food and atmosphere. The waiter was really nice , and spoke good english. We had a really good time ! You need to buy the spicy souse they do !

We really enjoyed this place. We popped in for a beer and the service was great and said we must revisit for dinner which we did. The live music is excellent, good sense of honour and subtle interaction with guests as well. My partner has Goulash which she really enjoyed, I had the gigantic schnitzel, which lives up to its name. A few sides, bottle of wine we’d happily return when we next come to Budapest

Gary is the best but also the others I do not know the names. The band is wonderful and you could buy their CD to support them as the music is good and if they know where you are from they sing songs from your country 😄

Traditional Hungarian restaurant, looks small from the outside but is big inside covering two floors. Most evenings there is a Gypsy band that wander around playing at tables. When we were there a lady was celebrating her 80th birthday with her family who had a great time. Menu and food were excellent, served by very friendly staff.

Such a great place to try Hungarian food, so tasty (not like other tourist traps) and the price was good. Excellent service as well, 100% recommend

Excellent local Hungarian food! Unbelievably, we went here even twice! Very tasty generous portions. Very welcoming service! There was also a lovely band playing sweet music! Highly recommended!

Food tasted great. Especially goulash was amaziiiinngg. But expensive place. There was live music. They went through each table and tried to sing depending on where you are from. Was lovely idea. It was Italian based menu mostly. But really everything was tasty and fresh and very homemade. Enjoyed. Although it was expensive😀

the food is just so amazing, during my stay in budapest i ate in this restaurant multiple times, i tried the goulash, paprika chicken, bean soup and schnitzel, and they were all so amazing. the waiters are really friendly and polite, and the atmosphere was amazing, as there was also live music with amazing performers. highly recommend!!

This is an excellent place to take out of town guests or visitors for a classic Hungarian meal. The 4 piece gypsy band plays nightly. They are excellent musicians and able to play requests. Staff and musicians interact with the guests and are extremely responsive to requests.