Gulyas appears as a signature dish in 1 Hungary cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Gulyás · Budapest
A thin paprika-and-beef soup with cubed potatoes, onion, caraway and a knob of bacon fat to start it, ladled from a kettle. Hungary's civic dish, the thing the rest of the world miscalls goulash.
Gulyás is the herdsmen's soup of the Hungarian Great Plain, named after the gulyás (cattle drover). The paprika version dates to the late 19th century when Szeged paprika industrialised. The thick-stew goulash known abroad is a Habsburg court adaptation; in Budapest gulyás is always a soup, not a stew.
Where to eat in Budapest:
- Hungarikum Bisztró
- Gettó Gulyás
- Kispiac Bisztró
- Menza Étterem