The fastest, cheapest, frequently best food on Budapest's streets.
Vendors, food trucks and stalls: the cheapest, fastest, frequently best food in Budapest.
Karavan on Kazinczy next to Szimpla Kert is Hungary's first food-truck court, a Jewish Quarter open-air strip with langos, burgers, gyros and kurtoskalacs.
OrderThe full-size langos with sour cream and grated cheese.
TipLate-night until 01:00 Thu to Sat; the langos and kurtoskalacs lines are the longest.
Belvarosi Disznotoros on Karolyi Mihaly is downtown Budapest's standing-counter sausage shop, with paprika and blood sausage, wild boar stew and breaded pork.
OrderA plate of mixed Hungarian sausage with rye bread, mustard and pickled peppers.
TipNo seating, only high tops; the queue moves fast, take a tray and pay at the till.
Bors GasztroBar on Kazinczy serves a daily-changing menu of three soups and a dozen stuffed baguettes, a Jewish Quarter standing counter with five tables.
OrderThe daily soup plus a stuffed baguette from the chalk board.
TipClosed Sundays; the menu rotates weekly, follow the Facebook for the day's soup.
Retesbar on Suto utca near Deak ter is a takeaway strudel counter in downtown Budapest with apple, cherry, poppy seed and cottage-cheese fillings made.
OrderThe poppy seed (mákos) retes with a small Hungarian coffee.
TipOpen daily 10:00-22:00; ask for a piece warmed in the oven if there is a slow moment.
Retro Langos on Bajcsy-Zsilinszky across from the Arany Janos utca metro fries 30-plus varieties of langos to order, the canonical sour-cream-and-cheese.
OrderA langos with sour cream, grated cheese and a clove of raw garlic rubbed on top.
TipCash and card; queue runs 15 minutes deep at lunch, the standing-room counter turns over fast.
Drum Cafe on Dob utca near Deak ter is a standing-counter Jewish Quarter spot for langos and gulyas, a frequent Budapest dinner stop after the ruin-bar crawl.
OrderA garlic-and-cheese langos with a bowl of beef gulyas.
TipOpen daily into the late evening; cash and card, no reservations.
Kolbice by Kobe at the Fovam Square Central Market Hall puts six grilled mini sausages in a whole-wheat bread cone with cheddar sauce and sauerkraut.
OrderThe signature kolbice cone with cheddar sauce, fresh sauerkraut and Hungarian mustard.
TipGround floor inside the Central Market Hall; standing-only, eat at the high tops by the entrance.
The upper-floor langos counters inside the Central Market Hall on Vamhaz korut are the landmark Budapest spot for a sour-cream-and-cheese langos.
OrderThe classic langos with sour cream, garlic and grated cheese.
TipCash only most stalls; head upstairs to the gallery once you have crossed Vamhaz krt.
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