Alabárdos Restaurant
City: Budapest
Area: Disctrict 1.
Phone: (00-36-1) 356-08-51
Fax: 00-36-1) 214-38-14
Opening Hours: Mo-Fr: 19:00.-23:00; Sat: 12:00-16:00 and 19:00-23:00; Closed on Sunday
The Restaurant Alabárdos is located in a small street across Matthias Church in a 400-year-old gothic building from the 15th century. As you enter, the atmosphere of the knight's hall of a medieval castle and a gracious welcome awaits you.
The Restaurant
The Room of the Knights with a capacity of 42 persons is the main room. The old kitchen part was fit up to a small event room and now gives place for the Chef's Table. The show kitchen's capacity is 16 persons. Our 400 year-old Gothic Terrace has the capacity of 25 persons, the Chestnut Garden with 25 persons and the Lower Terrace with 20 persons. The size ensures high quality personal service for our guests. The terrace and courtyard as well as the Room of the Knights cherish the memory of the Medieval Ages' traditions and atmosphere.
Table decoration
They use three different high quality china. One is the world famous porcelain from "Zsolna" with a unique pattern exclusively made for Restaurant Alabárdos. The two additional china are the Eton pattern Herend and a snow white Maria Teresa-Hutschenreuter. Restaurant Alabárdos uses Spiegalau crystal cups which are suitable for today's wine and drink culture. For special request we use hand polished lead-glass glasses from Ajka for 40 persons. Cutlery is silvered Alpakka usually and Hepp high quality cutlery for special occasions . Silk damask table cloths are used in red, white and yellow colours. They are also use special imitation of antique (Neo Antique from the 1900s) textile.
Music
Preserving the tradition of many decades, live classical music accompanies candlelight dinners: soft guitar music with Péter Gönczi. For groups special programmes can be organized by request , for example Hungarian traditional folk dance.
Chef's Table
They are working on building an open and direct relationship not only between our guests and the waiters but the chefs as well. They encourage the communication between the "kitchen" and the guests. Restaurant Alabárdos aims to be the best in personal cooking. The idea of the show kitchen is that the guests can see what they will eat and how it is prepared.
Menu
The kitchen is open to other culinary directions and trends, but it also preserves its Hungarian characteristics and are continuously searching for old Transylvanian and Hungarian recipes. The aim is to present the traditional dishes in a new form. They form the menu according to their regular guests' taste and the gastronomic calendar considering seasonality. Alabárdos presents its menu in six languages (Hungarian, English, German, French, Italian and Spanish).
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Alabárdos Restaurant 's Location
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Buda Castle District (From the Vienna Gate to the funicular)
The Castle Hill was first populated and surrounded by walls by the Hungarians after the Mongol attack of 1241-1242, which devastated most of Hungary. Protective walls were erected around the hill. By the 14th century, it had just over 8,000 inhabitants.
Buda Castle Funicular
The Buda Castle Funicular is a special pendulum-type funicular railway whose lower station is located at Clark Ádám tér, and the upper station is between the Sándor Palace and the Buda Castle. As a part of the view of the Danube embankments, it is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Buda Castle Labyrinth
The Labyrinth under the Castle Hill is a part of the vast Castle Hill cave system. This is the easiest one to visit, as there are no ladders, just stairs to climb. The Turks had transformed the original drip-stone caves into a system of tunnels and cellars.
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Mathias Church
The church is officially called The Church of Our Lady, and served as a coronation church from the 16th century on. Its vast ecclesiastical collection and treasury is open for visitors. During the centuries, the church underwent several major transformations, the first of which was the addendum of the Mary-gate (Mária-kapu), and in 1470, the 60-metre south side tower, with the King’s raven ensign, was erected.
