With reworked Hungarian classics that make it a winner, the ‘Owl’s Castle’ attracts the Budapest cognoscenti, who leave its sister restaurant, Gundel, next door, to the expense-account brigade. Choose to sit in the pleasantly old-fashioned dining room or on a sunny back terrace.
Bagolyvár
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