Culinaris

This week we'll take a little break concerning specific international cuisine and we'll have an overview of what we have learned and what is yet to come. Naturally, I found the perfect shop for that occasion! Culinaris is located in the very heart of Budapest, in Balassi Bálint utca, a minute away from our beautiful Parliament building. The characteristic of this colorful food store is that it offers delicacies from almost every national cuisine. It can be very handy for a gastro-geek like me to find everything at the same place and not having to fish specific ingredients from different delis scattered around the city. Let us now get carried away with the diverse tastes of Culinaris!

Clafoutis Grandmère à la Virginia Woolf

My friend found this genius recipe and she decided to try it out, and it just turned out wonderful. Not only this is a very traditional French pastry (which fits perfectly as a closure for my French week), but also it is introduced in a book "Kafka's Soup". This is a bestseller cooking book that tells recipes in styles of very famous writers, in this case, Virginia Woolf. I can't wait to get my hands on it! This is, I think, a stylish "Au revoir!" to our French cooking week! :)

You can find the recipe here! Special thanks to Fanni Petrák.

à table!

If you are searching for quality French bread and pastry, or just want to eat a real croissant with a cup of coffee on a cold morning, then à table! is the right place for you! This charming artisan bakery for me has now become the king of all pastry shops in Budapest. And to make us gastro-geeks happier, à table! has just opened a new boulangerie- patisserie in the city center of Pest, in Arany János utca (which is, by the way, less than 5 minutes from Pomo D'Oro). Let us take a look at the amazing supply of à table!'s baked goods!