In households across America on the fourth Thursday of every November, friends and family gather to share feasts of roasted turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, and many other harvest-season specialties that fill countless tables as the highlight of traditional Thanksgiving celebrations. This annual tradition of counting blessings and congregating with loved ones may have its origins among the Pilgrims in Plymouth, but the holiday’s spirit of grateful gobbling is now recognized with festive Thanksgiving events around the world, including these offers in the Magyar metropolis.
Arriba Taqueria: At all three locations of Budapest’s most popular Mexican eatery, guests can once again enjoy unique Thanksgiving burritos – a flour tortilla packed with roasted turkey, savory stuffing, sweet potatoes, and cranberry salsa. This foil-wrapped feast is available every day during November 14-30, and every order includes a slice of pumpkin pie, all for 1,890 forints.
Corso Restaurant: Located directly on the Danube Promenade, this deluxe restaurant hosts a sumptuous Thanksgiving buffet on November 24th between 7pm and 11pm (14,900 HUF), featuring pumpkin-ginger soup, roasted turkey, chestnut stuffing, mashed potatoes, and many other traditional specialties to be savored before a backdrop of beautiful Budapest landmarks like the Chain Bridge and Buda Castle.
ÉS Bisztró: One of Budapest’s top city-center eateries makes it easy to host a Thanksgiving feast anywhere in Budapest by delivering a table-ready meal – including a roasted turkey or goose with gravy, apple mousse, glazed carrots, pumpkin cheesecake pie, and more – to your home or hotel room, available through December 26th for 32,500 forints (plus a 5,000-forint delivery fee).
Kollázs: Visit the gourmet restaurant of the Art Nouveau landmark Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace Budapest to pick up a succulent holiday turkey “to go” anytime during November 23rd through January 1st, provided with herb stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, roasted sweet potatoes, vegetables, and pumpkin pie – a high-quality Thanksgiving feast for 50,000 forints.New York Café: At the historic café of the Boscolo Budapest Autograph Collection hotel, anyone can devour a scrumptious Thanksgiving Day meal of smoked veal carpaccio with goose-liver cream and green walnuts, pumpkin-cream soup, turkey breast with mashed potatoes and maple-syrup jus, and a chocolate brownie for dessert, served all day long during November 22nd-24th for 15,000 forints per person.
Peppers!: The Thanksgiving dinner buffet at this riverfront hotspot has much more than roasted turkey – bourbon-glazed Virginia ham, salmon baked with fresh herbs, and roasted lamb with rosemary are also available on November 24th between 5pm and 11pm, along with sweet potatoes, milk-bread pudding, pumpkin pie, and many other tasteful delights for 10,500 forints for each guest.
Tasting Table: Enjoy a Hungarian-inspired Thanksgiving feast served with an extraordinary selection of Magyar-made wines at this unique feast presented in a charming cellar, including smoked goose breast with pomegranate salad, duck-leg confit with layered potatoes and blueberry sauce, and chestnut pie with pecan crumbs, offered for 9,900 forints on November 24th beginning at 7pm.
