Central Europe

The Great Market Hall is the largest and oldest indoor market in Budapest, and a great place to discover hungaricums.

A visit of the Unicum House in Budapest, including the cellar where more than 1 million liters of Unicum are matured in nearly 500 oak barrels.

“Dr. Zwack, das ist ein Unikum!” Discover the history of the most quintessential hungaricum: Unicum.

A belated testament to the era when Budapest’s Onyx restaurant sat alone at the top of the Eastern European gastronomical world.

Textúra is the younger sibling of one of the few Budapest restaurants to have a Michelin star. Let’s look at the chef’s mystery tasting menu with Hungarian wine pairings!

At the forefront of the Hungarian dining scene, Bock Bisztró serves many Hungarian classics, often re-interpreted with a twist.

Having toured Moravia, Slovakia and Hungary, we’ll now go on a short escapade to the other side of the Iron Curtain. Six years after publishing my Sachertorte recipe, I finally made it…

The Austro-Hungarian Empire had a rich history of coffee houses and pastry shops. In Budapest, the tradition lives on in famous cafés like Ruszwurm (the city’s oldest, beloved for its cremeschnitte), Gerbeaud (birthplace of…

Tucked up in the northwestern corner of Hungary, Sopron is one of the oldest cities in the country. It’s also in a significant wine-producing region, one of the few to make both reds and whites.…

Sandwiched between Czech Republic and Hungary, my trip to Slovakia last year was brief. I’d been there for a longer stay a dozen or so years ago, but have few good pictures…