This is likely to be one the shortest restaurant review we'll ever publish, as during our visit earlier this week to the For Sale Pub we never actually ate anything. Unlike our aborted trip to the New York Kávéház, it wasn't bad lighting that made us walk out with empty bellies, or the lack of a table, or even an unfriendly reception: It was the prices.

We know this is a touristy restaurant in a very touristy part of town, and that in any event Budapest isn't a budget eating paradise these days. But when you open up a menu in a place that looks like the FSP (i.e. like a high-end backpacker joint) and see a globally-recognized "cheap eat" like spaghetti Bolognese for the equivalent of €10, you know something is not right, even if the portions are healthy and the food isn't half bad. (A review by our friends over at Kispad.hu back in 2005 gave the FSP a 4/7, saying it had the best csülkös bableves - bean and pork knuckle soup - in town.) And from the look on our waitress' face, it was not the first time someone had walked in, checked out the card, and then immediately walked out.

Except, of course, that we couldn't, because it's also one of these places where they put out lots of "free" unshelled peanuts, which you naturally eat while leafing through the menu and goggling at the prices, and which make you feel like you really should order something so you don't feel like a total heel when you walk out. So we ordered a single shot of the cheapest non-pálinka on the menu, which at Ft 980 (!) cost more than the deluxe gyros platter it ended up getting mopped up by.