8 foreign delicacy shops to visit in Budapest

For those wishing to step on a higher level in gastronomy, wmn.hu collected 8 stores in Budapest, where you can go on a cuisine adventure without buying tickets to another continent. This article will help you arrive prepared to these stores, so you will not embarrass yourself by asking for ten dekagrams of ‘prosciutto ham’ (prosciutto means ham in Italian).

Asian taste, Korean and Japanese food store and food bar

If you are helplessly devoted to Eastern flavours, you are in luck, because Budapest offers numerous possibilities to indulge in Eastern gastronomy. In order to make your favourite dishes at home, you can acquire ingredients from one of the two best stores: the one in Szépvölgyi út 2./b., or from Ázsia Bt. store on Fővám tér. In both shops you can find seasonings, sauces, pasta and countless local goods.

Address: II., Szépvölgyi út 2./b., IX., Vámház krt. 5.

Arbat Delikátesz

In Arbat (in Retek utca) you can find the only rival of Túró Rudi, the famous Hungarian dessert made of cottage cheese and chocolate. The feather-weight dessert made of cottage cheese and covered with chocolate may be even better than the Hungarian one. But this is just a subsidiary curiosity which makes the place famous among gourmets. All kinds of goods can be bought here, starting from caviar of the size of a pearl to smoked salmon and caramel cream.

Address: II. Retek utca 8.

Tej Pékáru Kávé Tea Grocery

Meaning Milk pastry coffee tea grocery. Although the iron Curtain has fallen, American sweets and trash foods which are hard to acquire in Hungary still have a large base of buyers. In the Damjanich utca Grocery you can buy

limited series M&M’s, Snickers, Dr Pepper, Doritos, and many more kinds of goods and are hard to find in Hungarian shops.

So, luckily, the Iron Curtain is long gone, and here you can buy all the things you would stuff your bag with on a trip overseas.

Address: VII., Damjanich utca 26./b

The British store

Missing the afternoon tea, butter biscuit, British cider and Cadbury’s? British store offers a wide range of British epicureanism, starting from oat cookies and ginger beer to the limited editions of your favourite snacks. Although you can find many of these sweets on other shops’ shelves too, here you have a much bigger choice and a wider range of tastes.