Can you recommend any street food vendors/areas in Budapest?
I love the street food culture in London and hope there is something like that here.
On a nice day, I like to take my food to a park or just enjoy the architecture, sitting outside and enjoying the sun while having the freedom to keep moving if I am short on time.
On the flip side, are there any places to stay away from because there might be tourist traps, the food may be bad, or it could make you sick?
Thanks,
Mark
This is a city with a fantastic food scene of outdoor dining. As soon as the weather is nice and until it gets really cold, tables along the street spring up everywhere and outside is the dining place of choice. I know what you mean by food trucks but they aren’t that common. However you will find places to grab food in Deak Ferenc ter, on Margrit Island, and elsewhere. But those places will also have tables and chairs, so you don’t have to go find a bench or piece of the ground.
I love the soups and sandwiches at Bors Gastro Bar, which is called street food and has no tables inside - but the location itself is in a real building (very near Street Food Karavan Budapest). But there are lots of places to get fast food of the normal sort.
On the flip side, are there any places to stay away from because there
might be tourist traps, the food may be bad, or it could make you
sick?
Tourist traps? Sure, but lets call them tourist facilities. Most of District V falls into that catagory. The beautiful area in front of the Basilica is another that comes to mind. Get out of District V and walk a block right or left from what ever main street you are on and the prices drop, the food gets more interesting and the tables are all speaking Hungarian. But the places is the tourist zones are very good, some world class, and they can be the places the locals go on special ocassions.
Make you sick? Not that I have encountered.
Would Lángos be considered street food? Maybe TexasTravelMom and Mr É can recommend some good one? (hint hint) ;-)
My cardiologist won't let me eat them.
Street food is the woman on the street in Teguicagalpa that hammered a wel into the top of an oil drum, filled it with fat, built a fire inside the drum and began frying chicken on a street corner.
Langos are cooked in various size restaurants or at least a permenant kitchen. The smallest I am familiar with is on the Opera House side street. No place to sit, you have to eat it on a park bench or the Opera steps.
The other option is Chimney Cakes and there are open windows and kiosks selling them all over town. Actually, one on the same street as the OP's rental flat I believe.
And lots of Turkish window meat outlets and quite a few pizza by the slice places with no seating.
Lol, Mary! CWSocial and I loved loved loved the langos at Street Food Karavan. They have the regular simple ones but also fancy ones. We both opted for something like red onion chutney and jalapeños….. but I am far from an expert on this topic. I can tell, though, that it is a topic for further research. Ha!
I have eaten a lot of places in Budapest and I only get sick if I eat too much. Ha!
Street Food Karavan has among its vendors local restaurants selling out of trucks. One vendor truck has their "real" restaurant across the street from the courtyard. Sure, pretty okay food. Took my son and his family there a few weeks ago. But its more of a themed version of a shopping mall food court than "street food".
Most of the underground metro stops have bakeries in them. Sweet stuff in the morning, savory in the afternoon. Again, no seats.
I asked about getting sick because I got food poisoning last year in London.
The only upside was it was near the end of my trip.
I do need to stay away from deep fried food as too much oil doesn't agree with me.
Langos is deep fried bread. Why mÿ cardiologist has banned it.
Hungarian food is part German and part Jewish and part Ukrainian and part Romanian. It's a tad heavy, a tad fatty and quite wonderful.
