Páva

Frommer's Review

The restaurant of Budapest's truly world-class hotel must be elegant and suave at the same time, and this one is both. While the atmosphere here is a tad stiff, the dining experience is memorable. Make sure you leave yourself a lot of time to enjoy the Páva, however, which serves really great Italian cuisine: this is a 3-hour, six-course meal, and if you are lucky the friendly Italian restaurant manager Andrea Colla will guide you through a dinner in which four kinds of wines are served. We started with warm baby artichoke with provolone cheese and arugula served with a light balsamic dressing. Then came the best part of the feast: a porcini and truffle cappuccino with wild mushrooms and taleggio toast which was basically a mushroom soup, but exquisite and truly memorable. Next was a pumpkin and scampi risotto, which was followed by a bitter and truly unsavory grenade apple and Campari gratiné. It was supposed to guide us into the main course, but it just didn't work. The roasted duck breast with wild mushrooms served with folded ravioli was excellent, however, and it was a pleasure just dining in this building: one of Budapest's most beautiful.

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