Polgármester Étterem és Panzió — Restaurant in Soproni járás

Good food -- but standard Austro-Hungarian, and no suggestion that the chef is working with local or seasonal sources. An early August offering? Oh, one might expect sweet corn, tomatoes, peaches, green beans, wax beans, summer squash... but none of these is highlighted in any item on the menu. Instead, take-something-that-used-to-be-a-pig and add potatoes. Disappointing, that. -- Decent breakfast if you want meat 'n' eggs. Yogurt and fresh fruit? Say what? Eat on the terrace or indoors. Whether there would have been fewer mosquitoes indoors I can't say (slap, slap, bad language).||||Scrupulously clean (but see below), large room (22), with Internet access a bit dodgy when away from the stair hall outside the door. Good, large beds. Efficient air-conditioning, once we had twigged to the need to close all the windows and thus to complete the circuit that would let the wall-mounted cooler kick into life. No soap dish in the shower stall, an odd little oversight, and no one had pulled out a rag soaked in bleach and gone after the mildew in the tile grout for some time. ||||Absolutely lovely waitstaff and housekeeping personnel, who couldn't do enough for us after we threw our few broken bits of Hungarian at them. The non-Hungo conversations went on in German. I can't tell you if English is spoken, or how well. But with a bit of semaphoring, or interpretive dance, you'll have no problems because, as commented, the people taking care of you are absolutely lovely.||||Other guests: German-speaking and Magyar, in equal mix. The German-speakers came and left on bicycles, the Hungarians in cars. Holidaymakers in flat country, locals who like the place; people out for a whopping good bargain and ditto, I suppose. We were breaking a journey to and from Vienna airport, only an hour away.||||I'd certainly stay again: Dinner, an overnight, breakfast, and quite a lot of beer (two people, don't judge us): £50. But I hope that before I return the chef has been encouraged to pull up her / his socks and to see what the local gardeners...

Good food -- but standard Austro-Hungarian, and no suggestion that the chef is working with local or seasonal sources. An early August offering? Oh, one might expect sweet corn, tomatoes, peaches, green beans, wax beans, summer squash... but none of these is highlighted in any item on the menu. Instead, take-something-that-used-to-be-a-pig and add potatoes. Disappointing, that. -- Decent breakfast if you want meat 'n' eggs. Yogurt and fresh fruit? Say what? Eat on the terrace or indoors. Whether there would have been fewer mosquitoes indoors I can't say (slap, slap, bad language).||||Scrupulously clean (but see below), large room (22), with Internet access a bit dodgy when away from the stair hall outside the door. Good, large beds. Efficient air-conditioning, once we had twigged to the need to close all the windows and thus to complete the circuit that would let the wall-mounted cooler kick into life. No soap dish in the shower stall, an odd little oversight, and no one had pulled out a rag soaked in bleach and gone after the mildew in the tile grout for some time. ||||Absolutely lovely waitstaff and housekeeping personnel, who couldn't do enough for us after we threw our few broken bits of Hungarian at them. The non-Hungo conversations went on in German. I can't tell you if English is spoken, or how well. But with a bit of semaphoring, or interpretive dance, you'll have no problems because, as commented, the people taking care of you are absolutely lovely.||||Other guests: German-speaking and Magyar, in equal mix. The German-speakers came and left on bicycles, the Hungarians in cars. Holidaymakers in flat country, locals who like the place; people out for a whopping good bargain and ditto, I suppose. We were breaking a journey to and from Vienna airport, only an hour away.||||I'd certainly stay again: Dinner, an overnight, breakfast, and quite a lot of beer (two people, don't judge us): £50. But I hope that before I return the chef has been encouraged to pull up her / his socks and to see what the local gardeners...

We visited on a Tuesday for lunch. We wanted to sit outside on the beautiful terrace and all the tables were already taken. The service staff was friendly and gave us a good estimate when a table would get empty (~10 minutes waiting time). When the table was ready, they brought us there, so the staff did pay attention. The food and drink was very good, we had a gulyasleves (goulash soup), a catfish paprikas (which was stunning) and a Cordon Bleu filled with leek and smoked local cheese + sweet potato fries. Portions were big, so we didn't go for dessert. Overall, quality was very good and this place was very close for our trip to Esterhazy Kastely in Fertöd, so good to combine. Can...