Nagycsarnok

The ‘Great Market’ is Budapest’s biggest food market but, because it has been attracting tourists ever since it was renovated for the millecentenary in 1996, it now has dozens of stalls on the 1st floor selling Hungarian folk costumes, dolls, painted eggs, embroidered tablecloths, carved hunting knives and so on. At the same time, gourmets will appreciate the Hungarian and other treats available on the ground floor at a fraction of what they would cost in the shops on nearby Váci utca – shrink-wrapped and potted foie gras and goose-liver pâté (2600/4900Ft for 100/200g), a good selection of dried mushrooms, garlands of dried paprika (600Ft to 800Ft), souvenir sacks and tins of paprika powder (290Ft to 650Ft), and as many kinds of honey (850Ft to 1250Ft) and types of wine as you’d care to name.