Pecs Restaurants

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When walking through side streets we got attracted by this nicely looking place - as we were about to settle for both having a drink and a little food and we were looking for something with good atmosphere, this place was promising.
Only next day I read in a local english translated paper they get good reviews - therefore no wonder it gets a lot of foreign visitors too and sometimes tables are full.
The atmosphere is real good, and service is friendly. Even on a Silvester night they served food late and reading their menu with amusing titles and description of food and drinks can be one of the reasons alone to come here. Why not... who wouldn't like to have buffallo wings and sex in Pecs (the cocktail)!

Favorite Dish: The food is yummy, nicely decorated, and their salads are gorgeous! Even when you order only main salad, and let's say bruschette, this is enough to make one person full for long time. Ask waiter to recommend you dishes if you are in doubt, by telling your prefferences. They're good at it (if the food is good you cannot be bad about recommending something anyways).
Vegetarians have limited menu, most food focus on meat, and meat again.

There is extensive list of drinks to try from non-alco cocktails through alcoholic ones, palinkas, beers and decent list of good local wines. The latter I'd specially recommend to try. Villany wineyards are near, climate is good, wincellars nice.

While you're accompanied by good comapny, enjoying lively atmosphere and having damn good foods and wine, take a look to glassy terrarium. Three rodents go out of their hiding from time to time and they're so interesting to watch.

One another unique thing in this place: the wooden floor is nestled with straw and you're free to throw peanuts shells on the floor, only adding more soft 'material' to the surface.

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This is one of the cellar type restaurant in the basement of the houses at Irgalmasok pedestrian street, with warm and lively atmosphere. Its vintage-like design is worth of note; dining room adorned with antique lights and tables, replicas of old maps, original paintings and photos, fine velvet-like sofas, etc. etc. Place comes with reasonably priced dishes, drinks and snacks, and looks quite popular with locals (and visitors).
Smoking is allowed in part of restaurant (in 2012 there will be smoking ban in closed areas).

Favorite Dish: Reading their menu is like a lesson how diverse is the region: here you read influences of their Slavic neighbours, then some local and Hungarian dishes, and also they have common dishes like pasta and pizza.

I have ordered their mushroom lepinja (white bread), whose name in Hungarian is very similar - but I forgot it. It's somehow very different than lepinja in Balkans, it's more hard and mushroom is filled inside - I thought it will be served beside the bread. But OK - something new for me.

They have fair choice of salads, I'd go for seasonal and/or local, pickled varieties.

Pizzas look okay now, a year earlier I thought they're little thick and small, like bread with something on top.

Anyways, I thought next time I shall try other dishes, but then again, we must yet come back another time to Pecs... and since there are plenty of nice looking eateries in this town, it's really hard to decide whether to go back to same places or continue to discover new ones.

Elefántos Restaurant & Pizzeria in Pecs in Hungary. The food was very good. Also the ambiance. But the whole evening at the restaurant was totally spoiled by the italian waiter.
Not only he was rude and arrogant, he also made a sick joke to my wife at the end.
I almost never get angry at waiters, because I know how exhausting such job can be. But this guy really wreaked the whole evening. Even the tip was already on the bill, which has to be a personal idea of the client. And don't use the toilets. They are so dirty, that you might get sick.

This place advertised local specialities and that's why we decided to enter. Finally, there were not only local dishes as I thought, but the choice is broad - like with most of restaurants. They have few vegetarian varietes, too and fish dishes, gulyashes and salads among other stuff.

Favorite Dish: I wasn't very impressed with my vegetarian crumbed 'pancake' with vegetable (on photo). It was like cooked frozen peas and carrot, didn't taste very well, but okay, next time I should try something different.

Their mushroom soup was the best I've tried in long time, real nice treat and served in clay plate. That's why I mention this restaurant here, for the soup. And also to remind myself for this place next time when I am in need for good warm soup.

In a cellar, eclectic decor and seating, cozy, friendly, perfect for a romantic dinner. Food is cheap, portions gut-busting. Get a half-order (fel-adag) or you'll be needing a doggie bag, not that you'd give food this good to a mangy pup... Traditional Hungarian food, unlike a lot of the places on the main tourist streets, heavy and rich. I've lived in Pecs since February 2008, and every single time I go out to eat, or have to take someone out for dinner, it's here. No exceptions, enough said!

Favorite Dish: Oh boy, ask for this: Harcsa porkolt kapros turos csuszaval. You'll get: Boneless catfish chunks stewed in paprika, and ladled over boiled egg noodles covered with sour cream and cottage cheese and dill.... best ever! Their Mezes Csirke (honey chicken) is always tender and delicious too.

On a quieter square, just off the main Szechenyi square, the Elefantos offers quality Italian food. The exterior seating offers a view of Jokai square, with its peaceful channels of rushing water, playing children and no traffic to spoil the experience. The food and service is very good.

The Hotel Palatinus is among the best in the city, and so is its restaurant. The interior of the restaurant is sumptious, with grand arches and a polished marble floor, and outside you can enjoy people watching on the traffic free Kiraly street. The meals are delicate, but beautifully presented and very tasty. Like the rest of Hungary, it isn't even that expensive.

Dishes have a Hungarian bent, but are not necessarily heavy and meat obsessed.

With a view over the main square, stylish seating and tasty dishes, this is a good stop for anyone peckish in Pecs. The pizza is good, the coffee is great and the prices are very reasonable. I think the only downside is a style issue: the name, printed in an 80s sci-fi font, reads almost like "coffin".