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The food. Oh, the food.

Gerlóczy restaurant rocked my world. The broccoli cream soup with the big lump of ricotta cheese in the middle as an appetizer, followed by a main dish of white fish on top of polenta, covered in a mustard sauce, was so freakin’ phenomenal that the chocolate mousse dessert was anti-climatic — and if you know how much I love chocolate, you know what I’m saying. I’m still in a daze over that meal.

The night before, we ate at Centrál Kávéház, where I had “free range chicken paprika with noodles” (not sure if the chicken or the paprika was free range), which was actually in a beautiful paprika sauce, and was absolutely delicious. And the night before THAT, I had pumpkin soup with roasted seeds at Menza which also rocked my world (we talked about it all week).

Updated: We also ate at a place called Hummus, a Hare Krishna restaurant near the Danube; excellent Indian-style vegetarian cuisine (but not very spicey) and reasonable prices. And today I ate at an Italian sandwich restaurant called Pomo D’Oro, which was outstanding (get the lox sandwich!)

Budapest may have the best overall cuisine I have ever encountered anywhere on Earth. Come to Hungary hungry. Seriously.

Here is a bit about my presentation yesterday.

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