MICHELIN Guide Budapest : discover three unusual fine-dining restaurants
"A real Budapest classic, located in Buda, the hilly and more residential side of town, Arany Kaviár was originally founded in 1986. With the fall of the communist regime in 1989-90, the restaurant became privately owned. The original Georgian and Russian concept - featuring, of course, a lot of caviar - appealed to the Hungarians and to the tourists from the former Soviet Union. The restaurant kept its intimate charm, with its rich and heavy draperies and its secret garden. A impressive wall of excellent Hungarian and international wine bottles greets the guests as they enter. Nowadays, a dinner at Arany Kaviár can still start with a caviar tasting, but in a fun, educational way. Guests are presented with a tray of five types of caviar, ranging from trout roe to Iranian Beluga caviar. They are kindly asked to eat each of them directly off the top of their own hand, bringing the precious sturgeon roe to the right temperature. This is only one of the many surprises at Arany Kaviár." - Le Guide MICHELIN
