Address: Mosonyi u. 3, 1087, Budapest
Opening hours: 12.00 – 23:00 (closed Sundays)
For more information, visit their website here.
Just around the corner from the impressive Keleti train station building and a little way out of the more crowded city centre lies Rosenstein – a setting that feels that it has clung to the soul of Budapest itself. The restaurant is renowned among locals and foodies alike for its excellent selection of traditional Hungarian dishes and Jewish delicacies like roasted goose, tying it all together with talented chefs and attentive waiters. Somewhat strangely for a Jewish restaurant, this is also where I had the best pork of my entire life – the famed Mangalica.
Shunning the starters – although the soups looked lovely – we head straight for the mains: garlic Mangalica, breaded Mangalica and roasted goose. Out of the two pork dishes, the garlic Mangalica was absolutely incredible and showed that the meat truly deserves its reputation as the Kobe beef of the pork world. Another firm favourited was the roasted goose, which was brilliantly crispy with soft, tender meat falling off the bone underneath.
After processing the gastronomic revelation of ‘wow this is what pork can taste like’, we come to and order our desserts: flaming gundel crepe, poppy seed noodles and a Mont Blanc. Out of these, the Mont Blanc is the clear winner, savouring each and every last morsel, while both the gundel crepe and poppy seed noodles were interesting desserts, with poppy seeds playing an important role alongside quark in Hungarian dessert culture (you can read our guide to eating sweet in Budapest here). To finish, we sip on a sweet Tokaji dessert wine before paying an extremely reasonable bill.
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