"This downtown restaurant is a neighborhood institution famed for its prewar Budapest ambience. In keeping with the bourgeois tastes of the period, the interior boasts a Persian-carpeted dining room and curvy Thonet bentwood chairs. For a local experience, visit at lunchtime, when office workers from the nearby financial district flock for cold fruit soups, veal paprikash, oversized schnitzel, and vegetable stews studded with meatballs. Owner Gábor Molnár’s cheerful presence has been a constant since the opening in 1995." - Tas Tobias