KACSA VENDÉGLŐ - KACSA RESTAURANT

A Kacsa Vendéglő a budai Viziváros szívében, a Fő utca és Kacsa utca találkozásánál 1987 óta várja vendégeit. A vendéglő alapító-tulajdonosa, Rozsnyai Áron szakértelme garantálja a látogatók gasztronómiai élményét. A kínálatban a magyar és nemzetközi konyha különlegességei mellett természetesen kacsa specialitások is szerepelnek, melyekhez Magyarország legkiválóbb borait kínálja a házigazda. A békebeli eleganciát idéző enteriőr, a Zsolnay teríték és az élő muzsika remek hangulatot teremt az ínyenc falatok elfogyasztásához. A vendéglő délidőben csendes munkaebédek, este pedig családi-, baráti vacsorák színhelye, de a szeparéban lehetőség adódik kisebb, zártkörű események, üzleti vacsorák lebonyolítására

There have been missteps. The New York Cafe, long a center of Hungarian intellectual life, was a smoky, murmuring and impossibly grand space where patrons seemed to have stepped from an Eric Ambler thriller. It has become a gaudy patisserie attached to a swank hotel. The huge and hugely popular Westend Center shopping mall is a flavorless glass-and-steel arc of shops wrapping around the back side of Gustav Eiffel?s soaring Nyugati train station. Skip to next paragraph The New York Times Andrew Testa for The New York Times The New York Cafe has reopened with a new gaudy look. Yet odd, distinct elements speak to the atmosphere of dynamic upheaval. An underground market of cheap clothes and bad CD?s blends seamlessly into the mall above it, asserting an older, Oriental culture that refuses to be drowned entirely by American-style blandness. Big, clanging storefront casinos sit comfortably beside the boutiques and bookstores. A member of the European Union since 2004, Hungary still uses its old currency, the forint, and only its most optimistic economists hope for a conversion to the euro as soon as 2010. Budget deficits are swollen after years of overspending by Hungary?s Socialist government, which was re-elected in April. At the same time, wages are up and the standard of living has noticeably improved, at least for some. Those new luxury boutiques and elegant cafes are not just for foreigners. MY wife, Barbara, and I divided this trip in half: two nights in Buda, with its domed Habsburg palaces and crenellated fortifications stretching along craggy hilltops west of the Danube, and two in Pest, the more populous 19th-century commercial city of grand boulevards on the flats east of the river. Tourism is on the rise in Hungary, up nearly 7 percent in 2005 over 2004, according to the Hungarian Tourist Office. Yet escaping the crowds is still quite easy. wling shopping mall and food market near Moscow Square.