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Irish Times Publishes List Of Budapest’s Five Best Restaurants
- 29 May 2015 9:00 AM
- food & drink
The Irish newspaper The Irish Times has published a list of Budapest’s five best restaurants by the country’s top travel author. Reporting on the open-air Gourmet Festival held in Budapest’s Millenáris Park on the website of one of Ireland’s oldest and most-read newspapers, Fionn Davenport says that you can “eat well in the Hungarian capital no matter what time of year you visit”.
'Lechner: A Creative Genius' Exhibition, Closes On 31 May
- 28 May 2015 11:45 AM
- community & culture
Museum of Applied Arts: Ödön Lechner (1845–1914), one of the greatest figures in Hungarian architecture, and certainly its most original, deserves a prominent place among the international talents from the turn of the century. According to tradition, the Lechner family, who had their own coat of arms, had migrated to Hungary from Bavaria.
Hungary “In Running” For Jaguar Land Rover Plant
- 27 May 2015 9:00 AM
- business
Hungary is in the running to become home to the new eastern European plant of UK carmaker Jaguar Land Rover, according to the Financial Times. JLR, owned by India’s Tata group, is finalising plans for the new factory and has drawn up a shortlist of four host countries: Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary, the paper said, citing several people familiar with the matter.
Hungary’s PM: Every Value Can And Must Be Open To Debate
- 26 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
At a press conference in Strasbourg following a European Parliament (EP) debate on Tuesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that every value can and must be open to debate. The EP debate centred on two issues: the Hungarian government’s standpoints on migration and the death penalty. A number of speakers accused the Hungarian prime minister of opposing basic European values.
Video: Football Promotion Hopefuls Vác Beat Bölcskei
- 20 May 2015 9:13 AM
- sport
Hungarian football team Vác FC recently won 3-2, against Bölcskei SE, to the delight of expat owner and chairman Mr. John P. Marshall (pictured on left, with previous British Ambassador to Hungary Mr Jonathon Knott). This game was packed with goals as the video below shows, for the record the match scorers were Gulyás (2'), Kószás (22'), Pölöskei (35') and Miskovicz (9'), Tóth (19').
Journey To Perigord In Budapest
- 20 May 2015 1:02 AM
- food & drink
By Liz Frommer: Entering into the infamous courtyard at Brody Studios, one had the distinct feeling that you had just happened upon a rustic farmhouse far from the hustle and bustle of inner-city Budapest. Delicate meadow flowers in jars dotted two long tables side by side, each offering an intimate, family-style invitation to come and taste the specialties of Perigord’s very own Clarence Joubert ...
Xpat Interview: Alex Van Damme, Owner of TableFree Kft
- 19 May 2015 12:00 PM
Alex Van Damme was born in Belgium, Antwerp on October 5th 1972. He lives in Budapest since more than 10 years, is married and has 2 young boys.
Xpat Opinion: Ambassador Eleni Kounalakis On Her Years In Hungary, Part I
- 13 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
I just received Eleni Kounalakis’s Madam Ambassador: Three Years of Diplomacy, Dinner Parties, and Democracy in Budapest (New York: The New Press), recounting her years in Budapest as U.S. Ambassador. I must say that I was pleasantly surprised by the book, which luckily, despite its subtitle, has little to do with dinner parties. Instead, we have an account of the turbulent first three years of ...
Selah Sue Concert, A38 Ship Budapest, 12 May 8pm
- 12 May 2015 9:04 AM
- entertainment
Selah Sue will be in Budapest again to tour her new album Reason, recorded live in Zurich. Selah was not necessarily destined to become an artist, “I grew up in a really little town in Belgium, and none of my family was into music,” reveals the twenty‐one year old, with refreshing sincerity. “As a kid, I wanted to be a ballerina. I danced from the age of six to twelve”.
Irish Times Publishes List Of Budapest’s Five Best Restaurants
- 29 May 2015 9:00 AM
- food & drink
The Irish newspaper The Irish Times has published a list of Budapest’s five best restaurants by the country’s top travel author. Reporting on the open-air Gourmet Festival held in Budapest’s Millenáris Park on the website of one of Ireland’s oldest and most-read newspapers, Fionn Davenport says that you can “eat well in the Hungarian capital no matter what time of year you visit”.
'Lechner: A Creative Genius' Exhibition, Closes On 31 May
- 28 May 2015 11:45 AM
- community & culture
Museum of Applied Arts: Ödön Lechner (1845–1914), one of the greatest figures in Hungarian architecture, and certainly its most original, deserves a prominent place among the international talents from the turn of the century. According to tradition, the Lechner family, who had their own coat of arms, had migrated to Hungary from Bavaria.
Hungary “In Running” For Jaguar Land Rover Plant
- 27 May 2015 9:00 AM
- business
Hungary is in the running to become home to the new eastern European plant of UK carmaker Jaguar Land Rover, according to the Financial Times. JLR, owned by India’s Tata group, is finalising plans for the new factory and has drawn up a shortlist of four host countries: Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary, the paper said, citing several people familiar with the matter.
Hungary’s PM: Every Value Can And Must Be Open To Debate
- 26 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
At a press conference in Strasbourg following a European Parliament (EP) debate on Tuesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that every value can and must be open to debate. The EP debate centred on two issues: the Hungarian government’s standpoints on migration and the death penalty. A number of speakers accused the Hungarian prime minister of opposing basic European values.
Video: Football Promotion Hopefuls Vác Beat Bölcskei
- 20 May 2015 9:13 AM
- sport
Hungarian football team Vác FC recently won 3-2, against Bölcskei SE, to the delight of expat owner and chairman Mr. John P. Marshall (pictured on left, with previous British Ambassador to Hungary Mr Jonathon Knott). This game was packed with goals as the video below shows, for the record the match scorers were Gulyás (2'), Kószás (22'), Pölöskei (35') and Miskovicz (9'), Tóth (19').
Journey To Perigord In Budapest
- 20 May 2015 1:02 AM
- food & drink
By Liz Frommer: Entering into the infamous courtyard at Brody Studios, one had the distinct feeling that you had just happened upon a rustic farmhouse far from the hustle and bustle of inner-city Budapest. Delicate meadow flowers in jars dotted two long tables side by side, each offering an intimate, family-style invitation to come and taste the specialties of Perigord’s very own Clarence Joubert ...
Xpat Interview: Alex Van Damme, Owner of TableFree Kft
- 19 May 2015 12:00 PM
Alex Van Damme was born in Belgium, Antwerp on October 5th 1972. He lives in Budapest since more than 10 years, is married and has 2 young boys.
Xpat Opinion: Ambassador Eleni Kounalakis On Her Years In Hungary, Part I
- 13 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
I just received Eleni Kounalakis’s Madam Ambassador: Three Years of Diplomacy, Dinner Parties, and Democracy in Budapest (New York: The New Press), recounting her years in Budapest as U.S. Ambassador. I must say that I was pleasantly surprised by the book, which luckily, despite its subtitle, has little to do with dinner parties. Instead, we have an account of the turbulent first three years of ...
Selah Sue Concert, A38 Ship Budapest, 12 May 8pm
- 12 May 2015 9:04 AM
- entertainment
Selah Sue will be in Budapest again to tour her new album Reason, recorded live in Zurich. Selah was not necessarily destined to become an artist, “I grew up in a really little town in Belgium, and none of my family was into music,” reveals the twenty‐one year old, with refreshing sincerity. “As a kid, I wanted to be a ballerina. I danced from the age of six to twelve”.