Zoltán from Budapest

About me My name is Zoltan (it's a very old and traditional Hungarian name ;) ). I have studied philosophy. Now I work in the marketing business for Hungarian agriculture and study law. In my free time I take photos. I love contrasts in life - harmony is a bit boring for me. I feel itchy when everything is beautiful and pain when I see kitsch and cliche. But I love ...
Oct 2, 2025

Nagyi Kifőzdéje Budapest

Grandma's hash house

""Nagyi Kifőzdéje" in Budapest is an eating house that looks and smells like grandma. It's not fine dining, but it's what we'd eat at home with our grannies"

When I'm abroad, I'm always looking for local families to eat at, even though most times I don't make it. In a typical restaurant you will never taste what we really eat at home, but at this place you can eat what I usually eat at my grandma's (its name in English: grandma's hash house).

When I step in, I see and smell the house of most grannies in Hungary. Yeah, the workers there are also at the age of grandmothers, and the tastes are the same as grandma's.

It’s not fine dining - it’s the cheap Hungarian style from the age of the deficit economy. But it has the taste of home. Sometimes on a Sunday I feel I should be eating at my granny, but I can’t make it. Those days, I go there and eat something familiar together with other granny-less people.

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