Hekkmester — Restaurant in Budapest

Name is Hekkmester but the hekk is average, and too salty and overly fried. Burger, hekk and salad prices are expensive compared to the taste.

They are supposed to have "beer on tap". They have the taps for Dreher, Peroni and Pilsner Urquell but not the beer. They don't use them, instead they provide only warm, canned beer. The canned beer price is same as draught craft beer in the city center.

One last thing. The lemonade. They have lemonade in their menu and what they provide is simply "sparkling water with 5-6 thin slices of orange". Just saying.

There are many other places around, just to skip this one and try others when you are at the Romai part.. at least thats is what...

On Római part, where there is a cluster of a dozen food kiosks, offering more or less the same dishes, you would expect each of them to excel. The Hekk Mester does not excel. It offers the same food at the same prices at the same quality of service. They do not have metal cutlery (expect to get some plastic (!) knives and forks). In early September half of the menu was unavailable. We had the cod fish (in Hungarian "hekk") which was okay, but with too much artificial flavor in the cover. The chili peppers also had some artificial aftertaste. Service was passable, prices are a tad bit higher than the average in the...

You should be warned, some people will not agree on calling this the most popular “Hungarian” fish. There are some other popular fish types in Hungary, for example, carp, catfish, perch, and pike. But, when the Hungarians travel to Lake Balaton, they eat something completely different, namely the “Merluccius Merluccius“, better known as the European hake (in Hungarian “Hekk“). The funny thing is that this fish doesn’t origin from Hungary, and not even from Europe, but from the coasts of...