Best Goulash in Chicago?
Best Goulash in Chicago?
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Best Goulash in Chicago?
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Post #1 - June 19th, 2017, 3:24 pmI've got a friend coming in to town and he was hoping for a great bowl of Hungarian goulash in this city... but internet searches have turned up pretty thin recommendations.
Does anyone have a place to go to get Goulash like you can find in Budapest?
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Post #2 - June 19th, 2017, 5:06 pmProbably get better results if you post in the Eating Out in Chicago forum.Objects in mirror appear to be losing.
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Post #3 - June 19th, 2017, 6:00 pmTell your friend to come July 8th and 9th for Goulash Fest:
https://www.gulyasfestival.com/
Otherwise, it's anyone's guess. The city supported several Hungarian restaurants once. These days the best you can hope for is bastardized versions like at Little Bucharest
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Post #4 - June 19th, 2017, 7:03 pmI really don't know if it resembles any dish served in Budapest, but there is the Hungarian Pancake served at Smak-Tak. A huge potato pancake filled with Goulash. It is very good in its own right."I live on good soup, not on fine words." -Moliere
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Post #5 - June 23rd, 2017, 5:24 pmUgh - was posting from my phone - I didnt see the forum title!
Well, I did get a very, very strong recommendation from a local chef I know - the goulash at Laschets Inn (Lincoln and Irving) is apparently very, very good.
I'm committing!
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Post #6 - June 23rd, 2017, 5:43 pmthreegoofs wrote:Ugh - was posting from my phone - I didnt see the forum title!
No worries. We've moved the thread to a more applicable forum.
Meanwhile, if the timing works out, maybe this would be a good destination:
https://www.gulyasfestival.com/
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Post #7 - June 23rd, 2017, 8:19 pmbw77 wrote:I really don't know if it resembles any dish served in Budapest, but there is the Hungarian Pancake served at Smak-Tak. A huge potato pancake filled with Goulash. It is very good in its own right.
I've never seen that dish in my years in Hungary, but it is delicious. I only know it from my (Polish) family and Polish restaurants and assume it's a "fusion" take on Polish potato pancakes and Hungarian pörkölt (what is usually called "Hungarian goulash" pretty much everywhere else. Gulyás is more of a soup or perhaps soupy stew, but that usually gets rendered as "goulash soup" or the local language equivalent in other countries.)
Yeah, the gulyás festival would be the best bet these days for authentic Hungarian goulash (and other local treats), but I will second the Laschett's recommendation for the more well-known stew form that is served on a plate with spaetzle (as opposed to in a bowl with some crusty bread on the side.)
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Post #8 - June 23rd, 2017, 8:21 pmronnie_suburban wrote:threegoofs wrote:Ugh - was posting from my phone - I didnt see the forum title!
No worries. We've moved the thread to a more applicable forum.
Meanwhile, if the timing works out, maybe this would be a good destination:
https://www.gulyasfestival.com/
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Darn it, almost every year this comes up, it's on a weekend I'm working. And I finally got myself a bogrács (traditional Hungarian kettle) on my last trip to Budapest a couple months back so I could one day participate in the goulash cook-off but, alas, not this year.
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Post #9 - June 26th, 2017, 9:01 amThe short rib goulash at Little Bucharest is really good.
