The 130-year-old Gundel Restaurant To mark the anniversary, it is launching a ‘Celebrities’ menu series, which kicks off with the ‘Four Crowns’ menu, which Queen Elizabeth II He also ate here during his visit to Budapest in 1993, and what the Gundel As part of the „Everyone’s Mission” initiative, this summer anyone can dine for 10 days at this iconic City Park restaurant, served on original Herend tableware with silver cutlery – and, last but not least, at an affordable price. Five per cent of the proceeds from the ‘Celebrities’ Menus’ series will go to the National Association of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing: It is offered to Sinosz.

 The Queen Elizabeth II was present at the menu presentation Károly Gundel, who is also the great-grandson of the legendary restaurateur Károly Gundel, tasted the menu enjoyed by the Queen of England with great anticipation and spoke of it with admiration.

Károly Gundel He showed the guests round the building, on the upper floor of which his great-grandfather had once lived with his family of 13 children.

From Károly we learnt that the To Gundel As well as the garden area we see today, it also had its own stable, housing the animals that were processed there and served to the guests. In addition, they ran their own laundry and sewing workshop, made their own wine, produced their own soap, and handled all the back-of-house services themselves that are essential for hospitality.

Viktor Moldován, Executive Chef at Gundel he himself brought it back to life Queen Elizabeth II Gundeles menu, which he topped off with his own homemade dill oil. (I simply had to ask for a smaller portion of this at the Metropol Kitchen (including for the recipe being prepared for that section.). 

„I really like it, I love it! It adds a refreshing touch to every dish. For us, this summer is going to be all about dill oil – we’ll even be making sour cherry soup with it,” she revealed Viktor Moldován. We wanted to show not only the finished dish, but also how it’s made. We asked, and they allowed us to take a peek at the Gundel into his kitchen, where the chef showed us what happens before the main course is served to the guests.

Queen Elizabeth II’s ‘Four Crowns’ menu, available at Gundel from 8 to 17 July – served on Herend tableware with silver cutlery – just as the Queen herself enjoyed it

Starter: Pink-smoked salmon with white asparagus and a sage sauce
Soup: Pigeon stock (with Chef Viktor Moldován’s dill oil!)
Main course: Braided veal tenderloin, Queen Elizabeth style – served with a potato crown!
Dessert: Strawberry Parfait – Trompe l’oeil