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Book a table in La Pampa Budapest

Posted on May 5, 2019March 27, 2024 by Budapest Guide

Would you like to eat an elegant steak dinner in La Pampa Budapest? Fix your table reservation in La Pampa Budapest right now, and have a table prepared and waiting upon arrival to La Pampa in Budapest.

La Pampa is a fantastic steak restaurant in Budapest located near the St. Stephen’s Basilica, and just by the Arany Janos utca metro stop (blue line). It is a really elegant restaurant with a beautiful interior, and one of the top places to visit for a steak dinner in Budapest. Would you like to arrange with a table reservation in La Pampa today? Fill in the forms beneath and we will reserve a table in La Pampa for you and send you a confirmation of your table reservation within shortly.

La Pampa Table Reservation

Make sure to select La Pampa as your restaurant in the drop-down box with all the other restaurants. If you want to eat in another steak restaurant instead, you could, of course, consider Pampas Steakhouse, but La Pampa is a much more elegant restaurant with a nicer interior. The prices at the two restaurants are exactly the same.

Fix your La Pampa Budapest table reservation today to eat a T-Bone steak like the one you see on the picture! — *Ready for a T-Bone steak in La Pampa? Reserve a table in La Pampa Budapest today!*

Where is La Pampa located?

The restaurant is located along a very busy street, but you will not feel any of this as you get on the inside of La Pampa. There you can enjoy your meal in quietness and in peace. The restaurant has seating space for more than 150 people, but be aware, it is often fully booked during evenings, so make sure to reserve a table in La Pampa as early as possible.

If you travel by metro, just use the blue line and leave the metro at Arany Janos utca (and now try to pronounce that station name if you want to get a smile on your face). Once you get to the surface, walk across the street, and you will be ready to dine in La Pampa right away.

La Pampa price level

La Pampa is expensive, but that is because the raw material also costs a lot. The desserts are cheap, and the starters are also reasonable. If you do not want to eat steaks, they have chicken main courses costing around 10 Euro.

Starters: 5-10 Euro
Main courses: 10-50 Euro
Desserts: 4-5 Euro

You will find exclusive Kobe steaks and more at the menu, so this is a perfect selection for an exclusive dinner in Budapest, or just for a very good steak dinner eat Rib-Eye steaks, Rump steaks, N.Y. Strip, Sirloin, Porterhouse, or some other delicious meat.

If you want to read more about other restaurants in Budapest, or maybe find out more about possible wine programs in Budapest, click the link.

Book your La Pampa table in advance

We mentioned it earlier, La Pampa is a very popular restaurant, and even though they have space for lots of guests, it still gets full regularly. You should, therefore, reserve your table in the restaurant as quickly as possible.

La Pampa is open on December 31st as well, but if you want to dine in La Pampa on December 31st, you better reserve a table at least a month in advance (probably more) to get a free table. They run with their normal menu on this day (not a special New Years Eve menu or something like that).

Share your La Pampa experience

Have you been to La Pampa in Budapest? How did you enjoy your experience? We would love to read more about your stay and hear how you felt during your stay? Not only are we curious to hear about your stay, but there are for sure other visitors reading this article considering right now whether to reserve a table in La Pampa or not, and they would for sure love to hear more about your stay in the restaurant!

A visit to GoodBar GoodBurger in Budapest

Posted on February 27, 2019February 27, 2019 by Budapest Guide

Are you looking for a good place to eat a hamburger in Budapest? Maybe you will walk by the place named GoodBurger as you walk between Ferenciek square and Kalvin square in Budapest. Is this a place worth visiting? We have visited GoodBar GoodBurger in Budapest, and here are some quick thoughts.

First of all, the restaurant is located in the very center of Budapest. It is very easy to find, even though it isn’t located in Vaci utca (the main shopping street of Budapest). The street on which it can be found is a beautiful and nice street, it has great atmosphere, and very little car traffic due to limitations and regulations related to who can actually drive there.

GoodBurger in Budapest - Is it worth visiting? — GoodBurger in Budapest – Is it worth visiting?

A good location is nice, but it isn’t all. But, if you walk by this place and consider a quick visit, is it worth it?

Fantastic service in the restaurant

As we visited the restaurant, we were received and welcomed by a really wonderful waiter. She was smiling all the time, and very helpful. She was polite, nice, and made sure that we were able to enjoy every minute.

The menu is packed with popular meals, making sure that this is a place you can easily visit with the family as you can find lots of burgers and other popular meals in the restaurant.

What about the quality of the food?

During our visit to GoodBar GoodBurger in Budapest, we ordered a hamburger, a tortilla, some sweet potato chips and also some onion rings. These are all popular courses, so great meals to taste if you want to get a feeling about the food in the restaurant.

The hamburger we were served was a tasty and nice hamburger, with a fresh salad next to it. This is what we would call a correct hamburger. It wasn’t a legendary burger that would make us return to the restaurant day after day, but it was still a fresh and nice burger that should make most family members happy if they get to taste it.

The tortilla was just as tasty as the hamburger, and to make it different from most other restaurants, they added a layer of cheese on the outside of the tortilla which was then grilled, making it really crispy and salty on the outside. That was a fantastic taste, and it was really nice to eat. The only minus was that your hands got greasy holding the cheesy tortilla.

The side-dishes, both the sweet potato chips and the onion rings were nice! Normally restaurants serve you sweet potato fries, but here they prepared them in chips form. I would prefer the fries version as they have more taste, but it was still a nice side-dish. The onion rings were nice as well!

Sweet potato chips in GoodBurger Budapest

All in all about GoodBurger

The prices are nice, the service is fantastic, the food is good, and the location is superb. This might not be the best restaurant in Budapest, and it probably doesn’t have the best burger either, but it should still serve you well as you look for a place to eat a nice lunch or have a fine dinner in Budapest.

Have you been to GoodBurger Budapest? How did you like it? I would love to hear your thoughts and your comments about the restaurant.

Would you like to read more about other restaurants in Budapest? Look around here in our Budapest Guide. Would you like to enjoy a wine dinner in Budapest not far from the location of GoodBurger? Check our wine dinner offers and wine tasting programs right here.

Would you rather read more about other places you can eat a good hamburger in Budapest? Read about our visit to Lucky 7 Burgers right here.

Budapest Summer Festival 2019

Posted on February 20, 2019February 20, 2019 by Budapest Guide

Every summer, Budapest hosts a fantastic Summer Festival. This is not the Sziget Festival, but a festival with classical music events, Opera, and more traditional music.

In 2019, the Summer Festival will be arranged between June 1st and August 23rd. The events are arranged at three different locations, with the biggest happenings taking place at the fantastic Open Air Stage at the Margaret Island.

Turandot during the Summer Festival in Budapest in 2019

Among the highlights in 2019, you will find Turandot from Puccini, Adolphe Adam: Giselle, Pink Martini, and some more interesting concerts and events.

You can find the full program for the Summer Festival in 2019 at http://eng.szabadter.hu/.

For more information about other programs in Budapest worth enjoying, look around in our Budapest Guide for information about wine tasting programs, beer tasting, river cruises on the Danube, guided tours and private airport transfers. We can help you with lots of programs, not only in the summer, but all year around.

Do not forget, the city is a big one and it has a lot to offer. That is why a private guide will help you understand the city better and to discover the most important sights within a couple of hours. The city is much more delightful if you get a grasp on it, so let us show you Budapest on a private guided tour!

Budapest selected as the best destination in Europe in 2019

Posted on February 11, 2019February 11, 2019 by Budapest Guide

Based on votes from more than 200,000 users, Budapest was just voted the best destination to visit in Europe in 2019. When are you coming?

*Budapest is the best European city in 2019 – Picture taken from the official website.*

My first thought after reading about the results was that “probably all of Hungary voted for this to happen.” During the European Championship in football in 2016, the Hungarians did really well, and suddenly all of Hungary voted for a goal scored by Gera Zoltan to be the best goal of the tournament. In the end he won, but it felt kind of strange, because the swiss player Shaqiri scored a goal that was 100 times nicer than the Hungarian goal, but I guess the Swiss nation didn’t all come to vote for their national hero (like the Hungarians did).

So, when I read that Budapest just won the price, I thought it had to be a combination of Budapest as a fantastic destination and lots of Hungarians voting for their own capital. But, I read in an article that a very little percentage of the actual votes originated from Hungary, and that made me kind of relieved and able to enjoy the price much more!

Check the full list of the best destinations here.

But, Budapest won, and this might attract even more people to our beautiful capital.

Have you planned your trip to Budapest yet in 2019? If not, get started. And what better place to start than here in our Budapest Guide where we can help you out with private airport transfers, private guided tours, brewery visits, wine tasting experiences, and lots of other great programs. We have done so for more than 10 years, making us a company with long experience and lots of great feedback, and we would love to help you as well.

Read more about all the great programs we can help you with in Budapest here in our Budapest Guide!

Tokaj Harvest Festival 2019

Posted on February 7, 2019February 7, 2019 by Budapest Guide

A few days ago we received an email from someone curious about the dates for the Tokaj Harvest Festival in 2019. Here you have them!

The Tokaj Harvest Festival, also known as Tokaji Szüreti napok in Hungary, is arranged every single year, and it is a big celebration of the grape harvest in the region. Tokaj is the most famous wine region in all of Hungary, and especially the Tokaji Aszu wine is popular and famous all across the world. But, Tokaj is much more than just sweet white wine and dessert wines, and if you decide to visit Tokaj for the Harvest Festival in 2019 you will discover that for sure.

Tokaj Harvest Festival 2019

The dates for the Harvest Festival in Tokaj in 2019 will be October 4-6.

We do not have much more information than this currently, but you can now start booking your flight tickets, find a local hotel in Tokaj, and do more preparations.

If you want to enjoy more wine experiences while in Hungary, we can warmly recommend one of our many wine programs in and outside Budapest. You can read more about the different wine dinners and wine programs at our wine tasting page.

It might be that Tokaj is the most famous wine region in Hungary, but there are lots of other interesting regions in the nation as well. For some, Eger and their famous Egri Bikaver is the symbol of Hungarian wine, while a very upcoming and popular wine region now is the Villany region. But, why taste wine from only one or two regions, when you can enjoy wine dinners and wine tastings in which you can taste wine from 5-6-7 different regions at the same event? Does that sound cool?

The Christmas Markets in Budapest in 2019

Posted on January 29, 2019October 7, 2019 by Budapest Guide

The 2018 Christmas markets are barely over, and already people are preparing for the upcoming Christmas markets in Budapest. But, when will the Christmas markets in Budapest be arranged in 2019?

One of the questions we received most throughout the entire year, is whether or not we have the final dates for this year’s Christmas markets in Budapest. And guess what? We have the dates.

You can start planning your trip to the Christmas markets in Budapest in 2019 already, because the biggest Christmas market at the Vorosmarty square will open on November 8th and be open until the first day of 2020, January 1st.

If you have seen the video beneath which we made in January 2019, you can see that our main guess was an opening on November 8th (or 15th), and the guess on November 8th was a success!

What about the Christmas market by the Basilica?

Budapest doesn’t have only one big Christmas market, the city has two. So, what about the Christmas market in front of St. Stephen’s basilica?

The Christmas market by St. Stephen’s Basilica will open on November 22nd and it will remain open until January 1st in 2020.

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It is time to get ready for this year’s Christmas markets already. You can read more about the Christmas markets in Budapest right here. We can also recommend our article with some useful pieces of advice to everyone coming to Budapest for the Christmas markets.

If you should have any comments or questions, please write them down! Would you like to enjoy other programs while in Budapest? You can read more about wine-tasting programs, brewery visits with lots of food, guided tours, river cruises, private airport transfers and more here in our Budapest Guide!

Budapest Spring Market 2019

Posted on January 18, 2019February 17, 2020 by Budapest Guide

Would you like to be in Budapest for the Spring Market, also known as the Easter Market, in 2019? Here are the dates and all the information you need!

Lots of people come to Budapest for the annual Christmas markets, but not so many people know about the amazing Spring Market. But, to be honest, they are quite similar, except the fact that the temperatures are nicer in April and the weather is much nicer!

When will the Spring market be arranged in this year (since this article is out of date)? Check the Budapest calendar to find out what’s on in Budapest right now and in the coming months!

Enjoy spring and the Spring market in Budapest in 2019

At the Spring Fair/Spring Market/Easter Market you can buy lots of handmade products from Hungarian designers, and even more important, you can eat a lot of delicious food and taste real Hungarian drinks. This is a fantastic combination, making it a place loved by many, especially ladies who enjoy both shopping and eating!

Budapest Spring Fair 2019 dates

In 2019, the Spring Fair will have its grand opening on March 29th, and it will then remain open for one entire month, closing up on April 28th.

The Spring Fair is arranged at Vörösmarty square, the square located in the end of the shopping street Vaci utca, and also the final station on the second oldest metro line in all of Europe, the yellow metro line.

Are you ready for a fantastic Easter market in Budapest?

Would you like to enjoy even more programs in Budapest? Here are some programs we can warmly recommend to you!

Read the different articles, and hopefully, you will find something that sounds both interesting and cool!

We wish you a pleasant stay in Budapest and hope you will enjoy the Budapest Spring Fair in 2019!

Book your Budapest hotel much cheaper!

Posted on December 21, 2018December 21, 2018 by Budapest Guide

We all want to save money wherever it is possible. We like to pay for quality, but if we find the same quality and the same product cheaper somewhere else, we like to purchase the product in the cheapest possible way.

And then comes the question – why pay more than needed for the hotel room you will live in during your stay in Budapest? We are not speaking about staying in a rat-hole with cockroaches, but why pay more for the exact same room you were planning to stay in when there is a cheaper option?

Book a cheaper hotel room in Budapest — Why pay more for your Budapest hotel? Source: Pixabay

How can I get the hotel room cheaper?

We just discovered an interesting in an article in the IP Address Guide that was about how you can get cheaper hotel rooms. It is easy to be a skeptic to such articles, but this was really interesting to watch and to read.

They did a live presentation in which they compared the booking services and prices at Booking.com with a new cryptocurrency based platform named Locktrip. There you can see them compare the prices of the Sofitel 5 star hotel in Budapest on the Booking.com and the Locktrip platform. And for a stay of three nights the difference in price for exactly the same product was 75 USD. They further tested other hotel rooms in other cities, and the differences in price was between 10-20% on all booking prices.

The Locktrip platform isn’t any different from the other hotel booking engines, and the fact that it is cryptocurrency based isn’t something you need to worry about. You can simply register, and pay for all your bookings in your local currency with your current payment card. It is important that you need to register at the platform in order to see the prices of the different rooms in your local currency. Before you register you will only see the prices in LOC (the name of the cryptocurrency). But, the value of the token can be seen at all times, meaning that you can easily find the price of the hotel room in your local currency, also without registering at the Locktrip website.

In other words, time to test Locktrip

It is easy to check it out and free to register. As you check the prices, compare them with your favorite booking engine. If you find it to be cheaper, do your booking on the cheapest platform (which most likely will be the Locktrip platform), and use the “saved” money on some cool activity or delicious food in Budapest!

We wish you a pleasant stay in Budapest!

Demonstrations in Budapest

Posted on December 17, 2018December 17, 2018 by Budapest Guide

Are you coming to Budapest in the coming days, or maybe you are here already, and now you are worried after reading and hearing about violent demonstrations in Budapest the last days? So, what is the truth? What is it all about? And will you be in danger as a tourist?

First of all, the demonstrations are against the current Prime Minister and his rule, and first of all because of some new rules that were introduced last Wednesday. On that day, the Parliament voted for the so-called “Slave Law”, raising the number of over-time hours from 250 to 400 possible hours for workers. Some call this a great opportunity to work more and earn more, while most people believe this will be abused by employers to drive their workers even harder.

The second law that was introduced is about a new system for the courts of Hungary, which will be overseen by the Minister of Justice. And if we have learned something about the politics of Hungary, it is that the Minister of Justice is in the hands of the Prime Minister, which again means that only such people will get those jobs that will vote for and do whatever the Prime Minister wants…

*CNN coverage of the demonstrations in Budapest*

Are the demonstrations dangerous for tourists?

The short answer is NO. The longer answer is NO, not at all! If you ever see someone demonstration, you can simply go another way. Or, you can decide to go with them. We have personal knowledge of people attending the demonstrations, and these are peaceful people who long for a change in the nation. There are some “crazy” people attending the demonstrations, but they are not really welcome, and if they turn a garbage can over, the people coming after normally place the garbage can back up in order.

In other words, if you are curious, take a look at what’s going on from a distance, and if you want to support them, walk with them. But, if you feel as if things get heated up, rather leave the area and eat some Goulash soup instead!

The ugly truth about the state of Hungary

We are really in love with the city of Budapest, but it doesn’t mean that we enjoy and appreciate everything that the politicans say and do. And it feels terrible when you hear that people are afraid to say their name to writers and to share their opinions on Facebook. Why? They are afraid of losing their jobs and fear their future. People are threatened to shut up, or they will lose their jobs! If you show up on demonstrations, the chances of being investigated for money matters or other stuff, increases a lot!

Even more annoying is how the state media is compromised, and thus, the larger part of the Hungarian population do not even know about the demonstrations. The State TV is saying whatever they want, and normally all they say about the demonstrations is that George Soros has financed them, and that those showing up are bullies who only want to destroy and create trouble. There are a few credible and objective sources for information, but those are really few, and thus, the average Hungarian will only see the filtered news served them by the Hungarian government.

In other words, there are plenty of reasons to demonstrate – but as a tourist, you do not have to worry at all about.

Free Sting and Shaggy concert in Budapest on November 24th

Posted on November 14, 2018 by Budapest Guide

Will you be in Budapest on November 24th? Are you a fan of Sting, Shaggy, or maybe Punnany Massif? If you haven’t ordered your plane tickets to Budapest yet, hurry up! It will be worth it!

The concert with Sting and Shaggy (with Punnany Massif joining in as a warm-up band) will be arranged at the Heroes Square in Budapest on November 24th. It will start at 18.00, and it will be a completely free event. The occasion for the event is the 30-year anniversary of the most popular kind of lotto in Hungary. But, who cares why it is arranged and who is arranging it – this is your chance to listen to Sting, Shaggy and Punnany Massif for free in Budapest on November 24th.

And, when you first visit Budapest, make sure to visit the fantastic Christmas markets in town, and since you do not have to spend money on the actual concert – spend your money on a romantic river cruise, a delicious wine dinner, or maybe a rustic brewery visit instead? You can read more about all these and other programs here in our Budapest Guide.

Do not forget to share this article on social media to let all fans of these artists around the world get the chance to listen to them all for free!

Ps: Do not try to approach the concert area with a car. There will be roadblocks everywhere, so park your car far away and approach the area on foot or using public transportation!