Thursday, December 08, 2005

Cyrano - Budapest

So i had been scrimping to afford this place, and in the end it was very nice, but not out of this world - but its ok, because it was still good value by Australian standards. That said, it was expensive by Hungarian standards, and they obviously have had to deal with this before, seeing they had a sign on the front door making it clear that they don't serve hamburgers!
For starters i had Fowl Broth with Tarragon = and i wasn't expecting it to be creamy like this, but anyway. It was nice and full of meat, i just tried to avoid the creamy sauce as much as i could. This was 890HUF (AUD$5)
For main i had King Prawn in Chilli and garlic with mashed pesto flavoured potato and japanese ginger. This was three huge prawns atop a pile of mash. It was very nice, the prawns were perfectly cooked, the flavours were balanced and the mash didn't seem overly fatty. This was 3990HUF (AUD$24) Which is fine by Aus standards, good even, but a lot for this area (last nights main course was 900!)

I also had a glass of the house white wine, which was good (but unnamed) and it was 890 also - alcohol in restaurants is a rip off compared to the food. Also, they 'hid' the service charge in the middle of the bill which seemed strange, which equated to $5 itself, so the total came out at AUD$40 for the lot - not bad for a nice meal, but i wish i had have had company - the service here was pretty poor, but it may have just been the one waiter i had. Besides i am noticing how 'alone' i am here, there are SO many couples kissing in the streets, its like Paris! Oh well, thats life.

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