Kozmo Hotel Suites & Spa - Budapest

Dining information

Restaurant:

Decadence pervades the hotel’s dining and drinking offerings; after all, the main bistro has a gold bar as a centrepiece. But design that leans heavily into luxe minimalism ensures it doesn’t tip over into ostentation. In the bistro, more hifalutin picks such as goulash soup with homemade 'csipetke', celery and preserved lemon, foie gras spring rolls with parsnip puree and hazelnut or a goats cheese and fig salad with balsamic caviar are balanced out by homier dishes, such as pulled-pork sourdough sandwiches, smoked salmon bagel with creme fraiche and pickled red onion, and wienner schnitzel with potato salad. On the weekends there’s a bottomless champagne brunch. The dining rooms are both styled with verve: light fittings hang like Cornelia Parker masterpieces or are enshrouded in ghostly giant lampshades; engaging artworks and cabinets of objects enliven the dove-grey walls, and banquettes are upholstered in navy velvet or dark leather. 

Top Table:

Kozmo’s interior courtyard is more polished than the capital’s famous ruin bars, but when the trees and original redbrick architecture are lit up at night it conjures up plenty of old-school romance.

Room Service:

From 11.30am to 10.30pm, you can dine in-room on cheese and charcuterie sharing plates and a selection of comfort food: goulash, bagels, pastas, burgers, chicken supreme, chia and chocolate puddings. There’s a slimmer edit from 10.30pm till 6am.

Hotel Bar:

Take your drink in the bistro or the lounge where you can nurse it in between potting balls on the pool table. There’s an impressive selection of Hungarian (from a Lake Balaton sauvignon to a toothache-sweet Tokaji) and international wines, and a wide range of gin and tonics, from Búzavirág cornflower gin with orange and lime tonic, to lemony Malfy gin, to Bulldog London Dry with lychee and star anise tonic water.