Assuming you are not shooting out of town for the holiday weekend, you might want to check out the fifth annual Budai Gourmet festival, which kicks off tomorrow and runs until Sunday. While the festival is mostly about wine and food, the organizers seem to take a rather broad view of the word “gourmet,” and have added in some kind of classic car show. On the plus side, the event is usually far less mobbed on than the bigger Budapest International Wine Festival that takes place at the close of every summer in Budapest, as the above pic indicates. On the down side, it looks like unlike last year’s festival, there aren’t going to be any high-end restaurants on hand to hand out tasty tidbits. Still, sounds like fun, assuming the same people enjoying all that wine and booze are not also driving those classy old classic autos.
Building on last year, this festival is almost completely all about
mid-level wineries and almost nothing about food, just look at the
food lineup on the website, it is a joke. The small selection of
restaurants were about the only saving grace for last year’s event,
and even then, not all of them showed up…
I love this type of festivals….Dear Anonymous this year is going to be a little different. Info from the website: Szabó Edit journalist talks to Hungarian celebrity chefs, winemakers and others who are strongly involved with gastronomy. (Friday and Saturday: 4PM, Sunday: 3PM) Guests: Chef László Csizmazia from Cafe 57, János Konyári Winemaker of the Year, Ákos Holló winemaker of the new generation, Péter Vida winemaker, Balázs Csapody chef & owner of Kistücsök, Péter Geszti and his wife. Edit Ditz sommelier. It will be fun….(I’m not Chef László Csizmazia, okay?)