Menza
Budapest, Hungary
The read// why locals go
Menza is named after the socialist-era works canteen and plays the joke straight, with 1970s Hungarian design and updated canteen cooking on Liszt Ferenc tér in Budapest. The dining room is a deliberate period piece, orange and brown, moulded plastic, wallpaper your grandmother would recognise, and the menu does the same thing with food, taking the dishes of that era and cooking them better than they were ever cooked then: stews, stuffed peppers, the old cottage cheese desserts. The terrace faces one of the busiest pedestrian squares in the city, which makes it a fine place to sit and watch, and prices stay low enough that young locals treat it as a habit rather than an outing.
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Liszt Ferenc tér 2, 1061 — Budapest
The read// why locals go
Menza is named after the socialist-era works canteen and plays the joke straight, with 1970s Hungarian design and updated canteen cooking on Liszt Ferenc tér in Budapest. The dining room is a deliberate period piece, orange and brown, moulded plastic, wallpaper your grandmother would recognise, and the menu does the same thing with food, taking the dishes of that era and cooking them better than they were ever cooked then: stews, stuffed peppers, the old cottage cheese desserts. The terrace faces one of the busiest pedestrian squares in the city, which makes it a fine place to sit and watch, and prices stay low enough that young locals treat it as a habit rather than an outing.
