Hotel Rum Budapest
High-spirited design
A waltz from the Danube
Awash with eye-grabbing interiors by some of Budapest’s hottest homegrown talent, Rum Hotel Budapest packs a lot of design dazzle into its boutique proportions. Vestiges of the building’s Twenties-era origins also still impress, especially its supremely ‘grammable spiral staircase. In fact, every corner of this majestic Pest townhouse will have you reaching for your phone. A Michelin-gong restaurant sits at the heart of the hotel, too, and crowning it all, a rooftop brunch restaurant provides the perfect spot for admiring the city’s glorious skyline, in style.
Food & Drink
Top Table
You'll be seated by staff here so it isn't a matter of choice, but it's a small and intimate space and everyone is centred near or around the chef's table.
Дресс-код
Smart but stretchy – you’ll have a lot to put away.
Hotel Restaurant
With award-winning chef and co-owner Szilárd Tóth at the helm, it didn't take long for Michelin to slap a star on the hotel’s ground-floor Salt restaurant, for which you'll need to book in advance. Drawing deeply from traditional Hungarian cooking, herbs and other wild edibles are mostly foraged by Szilárd himself. The rest is produced by local farmers and much of the meat comes from his family business. The dining concept is rather more left-field, with a secret 15-course menu – you can choose to have it revealed before you begin or let yourself be surprised by each dish. True to the restaurant’s Hungarian roots, freshly baked bread plays a central role in the experience. You can also choose to pair each course with a Hungarian wine, and non-drinkers have the option of their booze-free tipples whizzed up by a professional juicer. The tasting menu is also available in vegetarian and vegan versions. Up on the seventh floor of Hotel Rum, mornings are equally well catered for. With its tall wraparound windows, their Solid rooftop restaurant provides glorious cityscape panoramas while you tuck into an outstanding à la carte breakfast menu. Off-the-beaten-track options such as cottage-cheese dumplings and cauliflower with miso yoghurt sit beside cooked-to-perfection eggs Benedict and buckwheat pancakes. A Champagne-based eye-opener is also an option.
Last Orders
The Solid rooftop restaurant kitchen closes at 11.30 am. Salt is open from 6pm to 11pm Wednesday to Saturday.
