Buja Disznó(k) (Buda)

For lunch, I often head to Buja Disznók, a fast casual restaurant on the main deck of the Fény utca market in Buda. The place is known for its delicious offal dishes and schnitzel. Within ten minutes of ordering, I might be chowing down on sour lungs with bread dumplings (beuschel, their signature), tender morsels of roasted pork liver, or crunchy fried duck liver. Pickled veggies on the side, thank you. Friday’s lunch special is cholent and flódni (the latter a wonderful Jewish-Hungarian layered cake).

Buja Disznók, which is overseen by the well-known chef Lajos Bíró, has several locations across the city; the upside of this one is that after your meal, you could dart across Fény utca and continue to celebrate the culinary pleasures of life with a Dobos torte or a krémes at Auguszt, an iconic Budapest pastry shop.