WOW! He worked for Gordon Ramsay and now he opened a restaurant in Budapest! – photos

It is not easy to find a Portuguese kitchen in Budapest even though there are many different restaurants in the Hungarian capital. The Essência Restaurant – Tiago & Éva tries to fill this gap where the leader is Tiago Sabarigo, the former chef of the Michelin restaurant Costes Downtown, who worked together with Gordon Ramsay before. Their restaurant is in Sas street 17. next to the Société Budapest.

The restaurant opened on July 7, which is quite brave taking into consideration that, because of the virus, there are almost no foreign tourists and many Hungarians lost their jobs or income. Furthermore, nobody knows what the future holds; for example, the government introduced travel restrictions yesterday because even though the virus does not spread inside travellers can take it from abroad.

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According to index.hu, all these did not stop Mr Sabarigo to open his Portuguese restaurant in the downtown of the Hungarian capital where 50 pc of the meals are Hungarian ones. He said that many still wait, but most of the people in the restaurant industry would like to work. Therefore, they did not want to postpone the opening.

Tiago Sabarigo has been living in Budapest for years, he moved to the Hungarian capital to work in the Costes Downtown, a Michelin restaurant. Still, his dream was to open his own restaurant. Now, he could make it come true together with his Hungarian wife, Éva Jenei (featured image).

The kitchen does not offer fusion cuisine but separate Portuguese and Hungarian dishes even though the use of paprika or good meats is also popular in Portugal, so a fusion kitchen would not be difficult to create. Furthermore, there is a Portugal meal that is very similar to the Hungarian goulash soup, and if we add some white wine to the famous Hungarian, we can create something familiar for even Portuguese people.