Reviews by alexanderh292

This review is for Budapest Restaurant & Palinka Bar, Elsternwick VIC

verified email - 13 Mar 2022

We know this restaurant for many years and visit it at least once or twice a year.
I haven’t left any reviews before but this time decided to leave one. We visited this restaurant yesterday and as always it was a great experience. Very nice Hungarian & Eastern European Jewish food.
We ordered Chicken Soup with Hungarian noodles and Matzoh balls, Confit Duck and Schnitzel stuffed with cheese and mushrooms. Delicious!
Good choice of alcohol and non-alcohol drinks. Excellent service!

This review is for Borsch, Vodka & Tears, Prahran VIC

verified email - 13 Mar 2022

It used to be a good restaurant in the past and we decided to visit it today. I haven’t been here for years since I preferred another Polish restaurant “After Tears” but it is permanently closed now. Today it was absolute disappointment: poor food quality, poor service and no value for money. We ordered Ukrainian borsch, duck & Apple pierogi, beef & chicken pierogi and potato blinches with salmon and sour cream. Ukrainian borsch was dark grey instead of red colour, there was no beef inside at all and it was tasted as Sour vegetable Soup - Schie. All other food was strange and was no close to real Polish food, definitely not pierogi and not blinches which were closer to zrazi / latkes.
It looks like meat was not fresh. We asked for cranberry juice and the girl found a week old open bottle of some drink in her fridge which I immediately asked to replace with a new one. There were almost no customers but the service was still pretty bad. Very bad experience! That place is no good anymore.

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