Ukrainian investors are swooping on the Hungarian luxury dining scene, reports Világgazdaság, although factual evidence of this trend is almost as shady as the unnamed businessmen themselves. In addition to the mid-to-high-end eateries on Liszt Ferenc tér that we know of, the business daily only names identikit top-end restaurants Mokka and Dió among the “eight to ten” luxury restaurants already in Ukrainian hands. Then it goes on to avoid the burning question of why anyone would put their hard-or-maybe-not-so-hard-earned hryvnia into Hungary, worse still Budapest’s floundering dining scene, by telling us again just how much Budapest’s floundering dining scene is floundering. Not to mention that Ukranians are better known for cooking the books than actual cooking.
The bad things you ask for…
are never enough when they arrive…
Congratulation for the photo, it matches well the illness and the cure.
I’m a 33 year old Ukrainian and in the past ten years I lived in the UK, US, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Czech Republic and now Hungary with my American husband and our 3 kids. I guess Ukrainians do, to a large degree, earn the reputation they have in Eastern Europe, but, honestly – ‘Ukrainians are better known for cooking the books than actual cooking’?. does this come from anyone who’d actually been to Ukraine? that’s pretty ignorant. I guess Hungary’s reputation for bigotry is well deserved.
No comment for the article!!!
One question . I’m curious. If this is the photo for the Ukranians, which one is for Hungarians, for the English and so on …..
@Mariana: This is Erik, the editor-in-chief. Please accept my apologies for that line, which was probably “over the top” as we Americans say. But yeah, at least in Hungary, this is unfortunately the reputation, especially in regards to things like restaurants. Anyway, I have been to Ukraine, and Uki food is just fantastic!
I wrote that and I’m from England – and you know what they say about our cooking. Apologies for any offence caused, it wasn’t meant to be taken too seriously.
How are working in Restaurant business knows that fact ,and whats the problem????
The restaurant,service, food is the same only the owner is different.
Different owner…, same restaurant…, same service…, same food…, change the musicians and the music is still the same, that’s why the restaurants are closing down.