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Rétes (Hungarian strudel) is a signature dish of Hungary; we have verified places to eat it in Budapest. Paper-thin pastry stretched until it covers a tablecloth, filled with apple-cinnamon, sour cherry, poppy seed or sweetened cottage cheese, then rolled and baked. Start with where to eat Rétes (Hungarian strudel) in Budapest.
Paper-thin pastry stretched until it covers a tablecloth, filled with apple-cinnamon, sour cherry, poppy seed or sweetened cottage cheese, then rolled and baked.
The rétes arrived through Vienna in the 18th century but was perfected by Hungarian cooks who treated dough-stretching as the room's central performance. The poppy seed (mákos) and cottage cheese (túrós) fillings are the most Hungarian of the variants. Első Pesti Rétesház stretches dough in front of customers as part of the experience.
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