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 retes 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 (makos) and cottage cheese (turos) fillings are the most Hungarian of the variants.
Where to eat in Budapest:
- Első Pesti Rétesház
- Rétesbár
- Daubner Cukrászda