April 2015 - Budapest Guide

Pálinka Festival in Budapest 2015

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Budapest Guide

In the spring of 2015 Budapest will give home to one of the most popular gastronomical festival the Pálinka Fesztivál.

The annual Pálinka Festival this year will open its gates again in the city on a larger area with even more exhibitors and products to show. Pálinka is a typical Eastern European beverage, a fruit brandy which is popular mostly in Hungary, Romania, Austria and in Slovakia. It can be made of any local fruit but the most common ones are plum, pear, cherry, apple and apricot. This year apple stands in the focus of the festival which means visitors will have the chance to try the best home made apple pálinkas and there will be also delicious dishes related to apple as well as other apple beverages. Apart from these at the festival visitors can enjoy the concerts of the various street musicians and colourful jazz shows as well.

The Pálinka Fesztivál will be held from the 7th May to 10th May 2015 in Budapest at Városháza Park. The entrance to the festival is free. If you want to know more about whats on in Budapest, read this article.

Varoshaza Park

For more information check the following page.

Dunai Regatta 2015

Posted on April 22, 2015March 22, 2023 by Budapest Guide

The Dunai Regatta, which is one of the most awaited events in Hungary, will take place again in Budapest in the spring of 2015.

Dunai Regatta is an international sport event which is also one of the largest sport and cultural event in Hungary. At the sport event 12 Hungarian university (AUB, BCE, BGF, BME, ELTE, TF, SZTE etc.) and two American university (Harvard and Princeton) will participate. This will be the third time the various teams will compete with each other in different water sports on the Danube. Like in every year the race will lead through the Danube’s most beautiful spots in the city from the Parliament through Vigadó tér to the main building of the Budapest Technical University. Apart from the race the Dunai Regatta offers different sport programs for all the visitors in which they can try countless sports such as yoga, street ball, table tennis, badminton and extreme sports like slack line and so on.
Dunai Regatta will be held in Budapest on Saturday on the 25th April in 2015, the event starts at 13.00 and ends at 03.00 on the next day.

For more details on the event please check the official site for more useful information. For information about other events taking place in Budapest, check out what’s on in Budapest!

Bocuse d’Or Budapest 2016

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Budapest Guide

The Bocuse d’Or is a biennial world chef championship which was named after the chef Paul Bocuse and it is definitely one of the most prestigious cooking competition world wide. In 2016 the final will be arranged in Budapest!

Every two years the finals of the Bocuse d’Or contest is held in Lyon, France. After a lot of preparations and hard work 24 of the most promising chefs of the world get together for a two day long competition to show their talents to win the greatest gastronomy trophy of the world.

At the Bocuse d’Or European Final in Budapest the participants have to prepare one meat and one fish dish in 5 hours and 35 minutes. Hungary first took part in the event in 2013 in which Szèl Tamás got 10th place and last year Molnár Gábor got 13th place.

The Bocuse d’Or European Final in Budapest will be on the 10th and 11th May in 2016. Don’t miss out on one of the most famous and interesting culinary event of the world which will be held in Budapest, Hungexpo in 2016.

Hungexpo
Budapest, Albertirsai út 10.

If you want to combine this with a good restaurant in Budapest, read about the best restaurants in Budapest here.

Violetta Budapest 2015

Posted on April 3, 2015August 2, 2022 by Budapest Guide

Good news for the Violetta lovers; the Violetta Live Concert will also be shown in Budapest in 2015.

Violetta is a kids oriented television program on Disney Channel and all the main characters of the Disney television series will be in the live show in Budapest. The main characters in the series are Martina Stoessel as Violetta Castillo who has a bright and joyful personality and also has a great voice, Pablo Espinosa as Tomàs Heredia who is an attractive, confident but simple guy in the series, Jorge Blanco as León who is a little bit arrogant but despite this he has a warm and good heart, Mercedes Lambre as Ludmila Ferro who is the diva of the group and Clara Alonso as Àngeles who is really charismatic and a cheerful person to be with. The television series shows the life of the teenage Martina Stoessel.

Martina and her friends will give the best family friendly show in Budapest and they will also perform all the hit songs of the three seasons.

The Violetta Live Concert will be held in Budapest on the 29th August in 2015. The concert will take place at Papp László Sportarèna. Tickets for the show are already available.

Papp László Sportarèna
1143 Budapest, Stefánia út 2, Hungary

Tickets: WorldTicketShop