Your guide to Lake Balaton
Restaurants, street food, cafés and wine spots around the lake — easy to explore, with up-to-date, practical guides.
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Siófok Café · Breakfast and brunch · Specialty coffee
Specialty café and brunch spot on Siófok's Petőfi promenade, with house-roasted coffee and a green terrace. Turkish eggs, breakfast burger, pistachio-raspberry croissant. Seasonal.
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Zánka Traditional Hungarian · International · Pizza
Restaurant and small hotel near the beach in Zánka, right by the cycle path. Colourful terrace, homestyle food, its own street-food legend and a surprising number of meat-free dishes.
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Badacsony Balaton cuisine · Balaton wines · Bistro · Wine terrace · Fish · Local ingredients · Modern Hungarian · Seasonal
Badacsony's meeting place since 1883, today the Laposa estate's bistro, wine bar and showcase winery. Catfish paprikash, beef cheek, the full Laposa wine list, winery tours.
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Keszthely Fish dishes · Traditional Hungarian · Traditional restaurant
Csárda built by the Festetics family in 1934 next to Keszthely's Helikon beach. Fish soup, fried carp bites, zander and their own Zala dödölle, in an old csárda atmosphere.
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Paloznak Balaton cuisine · Balaton wines · Wine terrace · Local ingredients · Small plates · Seasonal
Panoramic wine terrace on the Paloznak vineyard hill, the Homola winery's own place. Natural-leaning Olaszrizlings, producer cold platters, sun loungers, DJ in the vineyard.
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Köveskál Brunch · Local ingredients · Modern Hungarian · Seasonal
Guesthouse and restaurant in the centre of Köveskál, with a garden. Producer-led Káli breakfast with cheeses, homemade yoghurt and omelettes, and a four-course seasonal dinner Thursday to Saturday.
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Balatonboglár Home-style cooking
Summer lunch restaurant in Balatonboglár, on the ground floor of a guesthouse. Two-course menu from 2,750 HUF, three kinds of fish soup, big mixed-grill platters, no service charge.
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Balatonszemes Balaton wines · Farm-to-table · Local ingredients · Modern Hungarian · Regional Hungarian · Seasonal
Bib Gourmand Balaton restaurant in Balatonszemes since 1992. Regional flavours menu, venison in vadas sauce, catfish paprikash, floating island, a separate Chef's Room, rooms, open all year.
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Family craft ice cream parlour in Mindszentkálla in the Káli Basin since 2017. Brontë pistachio, salted caramel, rosé from the Skizo winery, local milk and fruit, about half the range dairy-free.
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Balatonfüred Balaton wines · Pizza
Wine bistro turned pizzeria in Balatonfüred on Blaha Lujza utca, with a street terrace. Stone-baked pizza from 00 flour, Balaton wines, sometimes music.
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Balatonföldvár Fish · Home-style cooking · Hungarian
Thatched csárda in Balatonföldvár by Route 7, since 1980. Cauldron goulash, catfish fish soup, catfish paprikash with cottage-cheese pasta, big terrace, playground.
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Badacsony Neapolitan pizza · Cakes and pastries
Pizzeria, cake counter and cocktail bar at the Badacsony Borterasz on Római út. Bence Gajár's own workshop: burrata and truffle pizza, Sweetrose cakes, cocktails.
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Siófok Modern Italian
Italian kitchen and café on Siófok’s Szent István sétány, in the Mala Garden Hotel. Pizza, pasta and grill in summer, café and cakes in winter.
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Csopak Ice cream shop
Ice cream parlour by the Csopak beach and cycle path, using Kő fagyi? recipes and churned on site. A garden with hanging chairs, a sandpit, and occasional pizza from MÁS tészta.
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Balatonlelle Bistro · Home-style cooking · International
Bistro in a white colonnaded villa with a big garden in Balatonlelle, open daily all year. Duck liver mousse, confit duck leg, grey cattle stew with gnocchi, Somlói sponge, Konyári wines.
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Balatonkenese Traditional Hungarian
Restaurant, guesthouse and beach bistro at the Vak Bottyán beach in Balatonkenese, a third-generation family business. Duck rillette, Kenese fish soup with grey catfish, crispy duck leg with dödölle, catfish steak.
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Szigliget Farm-to-table · Fine dining · Local ingredients · Modern Hungarian · Seasonal
Green Michelin-starred villa on the slope of Kamonkő above Szigliget. Own garden, bakery, coffee roastery and ceramics workshop, three-course lunch, six-course dinner menu, panorama.
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Alsóörs Balaton cuisine · Fine bistro · Fish · Traditional Hungarian · International · Seasonal
Elegant marina restaurant at Alsóörs's Ypsilon Yacht Club, from Budapest's Bobo team. Zander with a green crust, coconut-milk udon, Bobo floating island, front-row views.
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Restaurants, wine terraces, patisseries and cafés around Lake Balaton that welcome guests outside the season. With opening hours, sources and the date we checked.
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Balatonfüred restaurants for lakeside lunch, brunch, dinner with wine or a meal after a walk. Six checked places and tips for choosing and booking.
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Five Siófok restaurants for a lakeside dinner, Neapolitan pizza, Hungarian lunch, a trip to Töreki or a group meal, with practical booking tips.
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