budaveg – vegetarian Hungary your vegetarian home in Hungary

I have some very pleasant news, 3 new vegetarian restaurants have recently opened in Budapest. I haven’t had the good fortune to check them out yet, but I hope I can post some reviews soon!

Ganges

The Ganga Vega Cafe has a big brother now, a restaurant close to Octogon. They offer delicious vegetarian food, Indian menus, and healthy options. They offer home delivery too.
1064 Budapest Vörösmarty utca 31.
gangesetterem@gmail.com
+36.30.5306368; +36.70.6338981
www.ganges.hu
Open M-Saturday 12- 8 pm

Bharata

Bharata Cultural Centre is the new home of Indian culture and cuisine: it offers yoga, ayurvedic medicine, meditation, dance and music courses,  and soon cooking classes! The cafe has special offers at the moment with really friendly prices. All food is lacto vegetarian. There are set menus, special offers for students, lassis and sweets. Can’t wait to try!
Budapest 1074. Almássy tér – Tivadar u. 3.
Open: Monday-Friday:  12:00-8.pm; Saturday 6pm-9pm, Sunday closed

Hummus Bar

There is a new vegetarian hummus bar just a few minutes from the budaveg vegetarian B&B, at  Hollán Ernő utca 6. James had a Falafel plate and was very pleased with it.
Open: Monday-Friday 10-10pm Saturday Sunday: 12-10 pm
Tel: 06 70 932 8284

Mannatural 

This lovely vegan raw food restaurant has moved! Just a few minutes from the previous location to 1054 Budapest, Garibaldi u. 5. They also offer an “all you can eat buffet” lunch for 3000 HUF and dinner for 5000 HUF on weekdays. Please call or email to reserve for dinner: 06-20-776-9843, info@mannatural.hu, just pop in for lunch.

This means we have now 22 vegetarian restaurants and cafes in Budapest, pretty amazing! I have just updated the restaurants page and our ebook accordingly, which you can get by subscribing to our mailing list. We hardly ever send out any emails, and you can safely unsubscribe any time.

Dear Friends,sorry for this long hiatus on the blog. We were bogged down with health issues in the family even considered closing down budaveg and turned down a couple of inqueries. Really sorry about that.

We found out that James’s health problems are caused by heavy metal poisoning from his amalgam fillings so in the past few weeks we spent all our time googling the net and at dentists and health practitioner’s surgery. We went from normal dentists to holistic ones and ended up at a “biological dentist” who is an expert at safe amalgam removal and does a lot of additional therapy. It also costs an arm and a leg (rather a second hand car) but still it is 6 times cheaper than in the UK, so we can actually pay for it without re-mortgaging the house, yupee!

Obviously I am going to blog about dentists now, dental tourism is massive in Hungary, and perhaps others can benefit from my recently gained knowledge. I am not going to link any or do any advertising, unless we have personally tried them.

Also we have been looking into raw food diets and met a couple of expert and committed raw foodist, I am planning on running a series on raw food movements in Hungary starting with no other than Mr Bicsérdy himself, our own frutarian celebrity from 1900, then Gitta and Aniko fronm Raw Food Academy and Agnes from Life Kitchen.

And to finish on a happy note we offer a 10% discount for any bookings made in February (you can book any dates in 2012) if you write “heavy metal” in the booking request- just to raise some money for James’s dentist, lol.

Ah yes, and here is my bottom right wisdom tooth operated out last Friday, cute, right? Our kids love playing with it. The young lady in the picture is also teething like hell by the way. I could also post a picture of my swollen face too, but that is not so pretty.Luckily I didn’t have to take antibiotics and I think homoeopathy really helped in my quick recovery.   One more wisdom tooth to go…

Summer is almost over, school is about to start and this is the best time for a city break! The weather is pleasant; not too hot, yet sunny, prices are lower and there is so much more to do than sightseeing!

7-11 September Wine festival in the Royal castle in Budapest, 15 counties are presenting 220 vineyards and 5000 types of wine, this year the special guest is France. Folk music, craft market and children’s activities make it into a great family event. Hungary has 22 different wine regions,  and lots of excellent vineyards- but most are relatively small so even their award winning wine hardly makes it abroad, but here is the perfect opportunity to taste a bit more than Bull’s blood and Tokaji.

image from: www.winefestival.hu

If wine is not your cup of tea how about a Chocolate and Sweets Festival? It is held 16-18 September also in the castle district, and looks yummy! Lots of handmade chocolate, ice cream and tastings of course.

We celebrate the composer Franz Liszt this year which culminates at the LISZT AND EUROPE INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL 29 September – 2 October 2011 held at these venues: MTA Roosevelt téri Díszterme, Művészetek Palotája, Millenáris

8-17 October Budapest Autumn Festival: is a prestigious art festival with art exhibitions, concerts, film, theatre and dance.

If you are into pop and rock, you can look forward to the following concerts:

George Michael 19 September,
Bryan Ferry 21 September,
Britney Spears. 30 September
Rammstein 10 November
Sade 23 November
Rihanna, 8 December

The budaveg apartment is available in September and October, you can book the best veggie B&B in town here or simply get in touch!
See you soon in vegetarian Hungary…

New design, new logo, new system- and a hefty discount!

Welcome to the new budaveg- vegetarian Hungary site! Isn’t it beautiful?

Budaveg went through a total renewal: we have a new logo, a new site and a new system: budaveg turned from self catering accommodation to a vegetarian B&B; we are now providing delicious vegetarian breakfasts for our lovely guests. This means coffee, tea, soya milk, 100% orange or apple juice, cereal, fruit, jam, vegan spread and vegan bread.

We have now:

• A wordpress powered blog- expect posts once a week
• An online booking calendar- booking is so easy and instant!
• Language bar- and translations are on the way!
• Lots of photos on our Flickr site
• 3 videos on YouTube introducing and showing the budaveg apartment
• Up-to-date information and active web presence on Facebook and Twitter
• Getting in touch has never been easier; we have a live Skype button
• Ask anything, anytime, we are on formspring
• Up-to-date listing on vegetarian restaurants
• Up-to-date google map with sights, veggie places, spas etc.
• A fresh new Ebook on veggie places and food- a free download

To celebrate the new site we are offering a generous 25% on all booking made this May. You can book any dates in 2011, but you’ll have to make your booking this May. And to receive a further 5% off, like us on facebook and share the post announcing the new site with your friends.

See you soon in Budapest!