Set in Budapest’s historic 7th district at 42–44 Dohány Street (Dohány utca), ARAZ Restaurant is bringing back its easygoing Sunday lunch ritual with a two- or three-course menu you can build to suit your mood. Chef de Cuisine Áron Barka and his team roll out a fresh lineup every week, with three soups, five mains, and three desserts to choose from. The midday deal also includes a full set of drinks: one mineral water or soft drink, a glass of wine or beer, and a cup of coffee. Service runs on weekends from 12:00 to 14:30, right in the city center’s bohemian quarter.
What’s Cooking This Sunday
The January 11, 2026 menu opens with three soups: a New Year’s korhely soup (korhelyleves), the cozy, sour-savory cabbage-and-sausage classic often tied to post-celebration comfort; a spinach cream soup with sunflower-coated French toast on the side, designed for vegetarians; and a hearty lebbencs soup (lebbencsleves), the Hungarian noodle soup finished with crisped kolbász chips.
Mains stretch from nostalgic comfort to modern twists. There’s roasted suckling pig with Brussels sprouts, purple cabbage cream, and rosemary potatoes (marked LM and GM); a New Year’s lentil pottage crowned with smoked meat; and Parisian-breaded chicken breast plated with roasted beetroot, pumpkin purée, and green beans. Vegetarians can go for breaded garden vegetables with raisin jasmine rice, BBQ mayonnaise, and a mixed salad. Another pork option, “pork belly” (“malac császár”), comes with sheep’s cheese–roasted polenta and chive sour cream (GM).
Dessert goes classic French and café-house cozy: a silky French cream slice (krémes), a moist carrot cake with mascarpone, and a rich Castle cake (Kastély torta) to close the loop on a proper Sunday.
Price, What’s Included, and the Fine Print
The two-course menu is 6,900 HUF per person, and the three-course menu is 8,400 HUF per person. A 12% service charge is added to the final bill. Included with the menu price: one mineral water or soft drink, one glass of wine or beer, and a coffee. For reservations of more than 10 guests, they ask you to get in touch via email. Arriving by car? Before leaving, show your bill at reception to validate your parking ticket.
For quick planning: Sunday lunch dates are scheduled weekly throughout 2026. Mark your calendar for Budapest Sundays on 2026.01.11, 01.18, 01.25; 02.01, 02.08, 02.15, 02.22; 03.01, 03.08, 03.15, 03.22, 03.29; 04.05, 04.12, 04.19, 04.26; 05.03, 05.10, 05.17, 05.24, 05.31; 06.07, 06.14, 06.21, 06.28; 07.05, 07.12, 07.19, 07.26; 08.02, 08.09, 08.16, 08.23, 08.30; 09.06, 09.13, 09.20, 09.27; 10.04, 10.11, 10.18, 10.25; 11.01, 11.08, 11.15, 11.22, 11.29; 12.06, 12.13, 12.20. Organizers reserve the right to change programs and dates.
Where You’ll Be Eating
ARAZ sits inside the Continental Hotel Budapest**** Superior, a four-star design hotel that blends Secession-era touches with modern interiors. The property has 272 rooms, including 13 suites, high-speed internet access, and tailored business services. For meetings, there are five well-equipped conference rooms and an underground garage. Wellness and fitness areas, massage, the ARAZ Restaurant, the Galéria Café & Corporate Lounge, interior courtyards, and a Panorama Rooftop Garden make this a comfortable base whether you’re in town for work or play.
The hotel’s culinary world has another key stop: the restored Galéria Café, easiest to reach from the main entrance. It nods to the golden age of the Pest Coffee Houses (Pesti Kávéházak)—the grand coffee houses that defined Budapest’s civic dining culture around the turn of the 20th century. The original Continental’s guest list included artists and writers such as Attila József, and regulars from the famed Hungária Coffee House (Hungária Kávéház) were frequent visitors to the Hungária Baths.
ARAZ’s Food Philosophy
Beyond Sunday lunch, ARAZ builds its calendar around a varied weekly menu, a Sunday brunch offer, seasonal specialties, and one-of-a-kind wine dinners. The kitchen’s guiding idea is fusion without forgetting—tying traditional Hungarian flavors to the present, and sometimes the future, through modern culinary techniques. Expect a familiar flavor map rendered with crisp precision and a few playful techniques: roots in the past, plated for now.
How to Get In
Reservations are encouraged, especially for larger groups. You can call to book or add the date to your bucket list and set a reminder. If you’re scanning what’s on in the 7th district or flipping through national event calendars, Sunday lunch at ARAZ is now a weekly fixture, with that robust drink package included and an ever-changing trio of soups, quintet of mains, and triple-treat desserts.
Currency Notes
At current menu pricing: two courses at 6,900 HUF are approximately 18.86 USD; three courses at 8,400 HUF come to about 22.95 USD. The 12% service charge applies to the total. Prices reflect the listed rates at the venue and may be subject to change alongside menu updates.
Set your Sunday from 12:00 to 14:30, pick two or three courses, and let Áron Barka’s team carry the weight of decision-making—except the fun part, where you get to choose your own menu and your pour of wine or beer before that final coffee.
