What do you get when you cross a 100 year-old recipe for traditional Hungarian pastry with a highly contemporary concept of dining and service? The answer is Első Pesti Rétesház Café & Restaurant, or in English: The First Strudel House of Pest.
The concept of a restaurant serving rétes (strudel), including entrées based on the flaky pastry is an anomaly in Budapest. Of course, you’ve undoubtedly had strudel before, but with duck leg, grilled venison or catfish? We doubt it. Once you enter the restaurant you face the baker preparing and baking strudels. You can basically watch, film and take pictures real-time while the strudel dough is being stretched, filled and baked.
The First Strudel House of Pest is located in the heart of Budapest in a historical building built in 1812. This unique restaurant’s mission is to preserve, hand down and popularise this real Hungarian tradition; the experience gained in preparing and consuming strudels in order to provide guests with gastronomic adventures that carry weight, history and values.
The restaurant also offers small programs for tourists, including dough-stretching/strudel making presentation as well as a short video (available in English, German, Italian, French and Russian) about Hungarian culture and traditions along with the history of strudel making.
The restaurant also provides the opportunity to purchase from a selection of souvenirs and traditional Hungarian items ranging from foie gras paté can through pocket knives to fruit jams from the countryside or even pálinka (a special local drink of 40-50 degrees of alcohol).
A GLIMPSE OF THE MENU
Cold Starters:
1. Hungarian Foie Gras
2. Hungarian snack plate (Smoked Salami, Matured Ham, Foie Gras, Goose Cracklings, Cheese Cream, Vegetables, Home-made Bread)
Hot Starters:
1. Strudel stuffed with Salmon served with Asparagus Sauce
2. Strudel stuffed with Poultry Meat "Hortobágy" Style served with Creamed Paprika Sauce
3. Grilled Goose Liver (Foie Gras) served with Home-made Milk-loaf bread and Saffron flavoured "Tokaji" Quintessence
Soups:
1. Chicken Soup "Ujházi" Style
2. Hungarian fish soup
3. Hungarian goulash soup
Main courses:
1. Roasted Leg of Duck served with Onion Mashed Potato Strudel & Braised Red Cabbage with Prune
2. Grilled Goose Liver (Foie Gras) served with Caramelized Apple Slices and Creamy Mashed Potato
3. Roasted Chicken Fillet served with Vegetable-Rice Torteau and Basil-seasoned Cheese Sauce
4. Slow-roasted leg of pork served with twice-baked Potatoes and Home-made Pickles
5. Beef Tenderloin Fillets "Budapest" Style (3x70 gr)
6. Creamed Veal ’Paprikás’ served with Buttered ’Galuska’
7. Roasted Lamb Chops served with Creamy Sugar Pea Mashed Potato & Onion Jam
8. Grilled Salmon Steak served with Balsamic Fresh Garden Salad
9. A DISH FOR TWO: Grilled Chicken Breast Fillet, Roasted Leg of Duck, Pork Leg Roast, Beef Tenderloin Fillets, Steamed Jasmine Rice,Roasted Potatoes, "Letscho", Grilled Vegetables, Strudel stuffed with Onion Mashed Potato,Braised Red Cabbage with Prune.
Desserts:
1. Apple Strudel with Vanilla Ice-cream and Cinnamon Sauce
2. Sour Cherry Strudel with Chilli-Chocolate Sauce
3. Sponge-cake "Somló" Style with Chocolate Sauce and Whipped Cream
4. Hot Chocolate Souffle with Vanilla Ice Cream
Drinks:
1. Wide selection of famous Hungarian wines and spirits (like Tokaji white wine)
2. Wide selection of teas and coffees
3. Wide selection of alcoholic drinks
4. Wide selection of both international and Hungarian beers
5. Wide selection of flavoured and plain lemonades
6. Wide selection of fruit syrup drinks
Restaurant area
Traditional dining area
Á la carte restaurant area
Live strudel stretching
Strudels
Strudel stuffed with Poultry Meat "Hortobagy" Style
Roasted Leg of Duck with Mashed Potato & Braised Red Cabbage
Grilled Goose Liver (Foie Gras) with Home-made Milk-loaf and "Tokaji" Quintessence
Plum strudel
Cottage cheese strudel
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