Retes appears as a signature dish in 1 Hungary cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Rétes (Hungarian strudel) · 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.
Where to eat in Budapest:
- Első Pesti Rétesház
- Rétesbár
- Daubner Cukrászda