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Hummus bar is a franchise with 3 restaurants in Budapest, all very conveniently located in downtown and all offering a wide range of vegan food. The bar in Alkotmány utca is vegetarian, and the one in Kecskeméti and Október 6 utca are “normal” as they say on their website, which is probably not “normal” to us but they also offer a very good veggie selection.

They have hummus dishes, sandwiches, salads, soups and desserts and different hot and cold drinks. I had lunch at the Kecskeméti utca Hummus Bar the other day, I had a falafel plate with mint tea, the service was a bit on the slow side but the stuff was excellent. It has both indoor and outdoor seating and since Kecskeméti utca has restricted traffic it was very pleasant and metropolitan to eat on the pavement area and enjoy the city.

Hummus bar 
Middle Eastern vegan friendly cafes, (but only one is exclusively vegetarian) now at three locations.
English menu, English spoken.
www.hummusbar.hu


Address: V. ker. Október 6. str. 19 Vegetarian friendly
Open: Monday-Friday 11.30-10pm Saturday Sunday: 12-10 pm
Tel: 3540108

Address: V. ker. Kecskeméti str. 1 Vegetarian friendly
Open: Monday-Friday 10-10pm Saturday Sunday: 12-10 pm
Tel+36 (70) 932-8284

Address:1054 Budapest, Alkotmány utca 20 Metro Arany János utca (blue) Vegetarian
Open: Monday-Friday 10-10 pm, Saturday-Sunday 12-10 pm
Tel: 302-13-85

Ice cream is important, at least for me and I’ll travel far and wide for good ice cream so the moment i heard about Gelarto Rosa I was impatient to get the family in the city to try it. They are right next to the St. Stephan’s Basilica in the city centre, a short walk from Deák Metro station.

the gelarto rosa shop

The owner apparently learnt the trade in Italy, naturalmente, and not only do they make amazing ice cream from quality ingredients it is also formed in a shape of a rose! Now how cool is that?

yum!

Apart from the traditional flavours they have poppy seed and  strawberry with elderflower (delicious) and lots of other equally exciting options, but we limited ourselves to two flavors each, well there is always next time.
Some flavours are prepared with birch sugar which supposed to be less nasty than white sugar and suitable for people on a candida diet.
And here comes the best part: only vanilla contains eggs, the other creamy flavours are lacto vegetarian, and all the fruit flavours are vegan, all sorbet ice cream! So just go for it,it is seriously good!

seriously good!