Located in Budapest’s historic Jewish Quarter, Tábla opened last year as a sister eatery to the neighboring Esca restaurant to pamper guests with breakfast and lunch specials proffered from a prudently planned menu that changes weekly. Now, in addition to serving minimalist midday meals, the restaurant’s renowned owner and chef Gábor Fehér is keeping Tábla open for dinner, when epicureans can enjoy elaborate evening feasts made according to the place’s profile by fusing French and Scandinavian culinary techniques. Best of all, the menu still abounds with Hungarian specialties.
District VII in the Hungarian capital boasts plenty of hip hangouts, and sometimes it’s hard to follow the pace of new dining destinations launching in the neighborhood. While many eateries open with high expectations, some go out of business just as fast within a few months. However, those restaurants that are managed with expertise and a careful concept stand stable to become regular haunts for urban dwellers, just like Tábla, a minimally designed hotspot welcoming an increasing number of epicureans since opening last year.
While until recently the miniature eatery provided culinary adventures only for daytime guests and closed every day at 3pm, beginning this week the restaurant announced on their Facebook page that now they stay open for dinner, as well. Thanks to the new business hours, gourmets who want to sample modern Hungarian specialties can get a taste of Magyar flavors offered with Tábla’s weekly changing selection until 9pm on weekdays.
Blending Scandinavian and French cooking techniques, this week’s menu offers dishes like Mangalica terrine with fig, homemade sausage with mashed potatoes and vinegar-infused onions, cholent with confit duck leg and egg cream, a Hungarian cheese selection, and apple cake with vanilla ice cream.
Tábla
Address: Budapest 1074, Dohány u. 29
Opening hours: Monday-Friday 8am-2:30pm and 6pm-9pm
