Moto Pizza (Madách)

Moto is a lively pizza shop smack in the middle of Budapest’s fashionable Jewish Quarter on Madách tér (with two additional locations in the city). Order at the bar, then try to snag a table by the floor-to-ceiling windows made for people-watching the busy sidewalk. A dozen or so pizzas are available, all of them the pliant, puffy, soupy, and completely delicious Neapolitan style, prepared within minutes in a domed wood-burning pizza oven.

Let me draw your attention to the namesake “Moto,” topped with piquant sausage (kolbász), chili pepper, and red onions in addition to the tomato-basil-mozzarella base. One with a local angle and my go-to. The pizzas run €8-10, and Peroni, Fritz-kola, and Club-Mate are available for pairing. There’s a small jungle upstairs – a crowded plant shop – if you don't want to leave empty-handed.