Hungarian savoury crepes filled with paprika veal stew, rolled and napped with a sour-cream sauce. The signature starter of restored Magyar haute cuisine.
Hortobágyi palacsinta was created in 1958 for the Hungarian pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair, popularly credited to celebrity chef János Rákóczi. Despite the rustic name evoking the Hortobágy puszta on the Great Plain, the dish has no historical roots there; the Hortobágy reference was 1950s marketing meant to suggest national tradition. It remains a Magyar fine-dining starter at Stand, Hungarikum Bisztró and Borkonyha.
3 editor picks for Hortobágyi palacsinta in Budapest, ranked by editorial score. All Budapest signature dishes · Hortobágyi palacsinta across every city.
Stand ★ 4.8
terezvaros · Székely Mihály utca 2, 1061 Budapest
Szabina Szullo and Tamas Szell's Stand cooks two-Michelin-star modern Hungarian tasting menus from a Terezvaros room near Andrassy and Liszt Ferenc ter.
Borkonyha Winekitchen ★ 4.6
lipotvaros · Sas utca 3, 1051 Budapest
Akos Sarkozi's Borkonyha behind St Stephen's Basilica on Sas utca holds one Michelin star and pours from a 200-bottle Hungarian wine list, downtown Budapest.
Hungarikum Bisztró ★ 4.5
lipotvaros · Steindl Imre utca 13, 1051 Budapest
Hungarikum Bisztro on Steindl Imre near Parliament cooks the canonical Hungarian classics, with gulyás, chicken paprikash and stuffed cabbage in a tiny.