Hungarian Cooking and optional Local Market Tour

Bernadett was a lovely hostess. Our time in the market was informative and sweet (we had a chocolate treat AND a plum strudel). Both were excellent. And making the meal was wonderfully organized and well paced. We made potato soup, chicken paprikash, spaetzle, and sour cherry pie. It was delicious - as good as anything I’ve had in my stay in Budapest. This was a delightful time and I wish I’d done it earlier in my visit.

Don’t eat breakfast before this class!!!

This was a wonderful experience. Bernadette took us through the Central Market to purchase a few items for our class while providing us with some tasty treats including a scrumptious plum strudel. In the kitchen it was all

hands-on as we prepared potato soup, chicken paprikas with homemade dumplings and sour cherry pie for dessert. Bernadette’s a great instructor! I can’t wait to prepare this entire menu at home!

My husband and I were lucky to be paired up with Vesna for a wonderful day of learning, cooking, eating, and drinking. Vesna was fabulous, she was honest and not going to be selling us on anything that was not of high quality, she had our full trust in her recommendations and the end result was an absolutely delicious meal. We have since had Hungarian ingredients shipped to Colorado, USA, just to try and replicate these fantastic meals, and Vensa would be proud to hear that we've made some pretty delicious dishes since our class! We were paired with just one other person and had a great time getting to know everyone, learning about Hungary via food, and made a friend along the way. Highly recommend this class as well as the market tour if you are very into cooking and even if you are not, Vesna's passion is incredibly intoxicating and I can guarantee you'll have a great time! Thank you Vesna!! From Nicole and Matan in Colorado, USA. :)

We had the best time on a market tour and cooking class with our chef instructor Vesna. We were going to be making potato soup, Chicken Paprikas and apple strudel. We met at the main Market in Budapest and Vesna went right to work educating us on the local produce, cheese, meats, pastries and Paprikas. We sampled a lot of these foods and were shown why each brand or variety was better than others. You could smell the difference in Hungarian peppers over USA green peppers. Many shops in the market sell the same meats, cheeses and pastries, but we got to taste the difference in their quality and learn which shops were worth spending your money in. My wife and I highly recommend adding the market place tour to your cooking class.

The cooking class was extremely organized and we did all the prep and cooking under the watchful eye of Vesna our chef instructor. It took an hour to cook the chicken paprikas, constantly turning the chicken and stirring the sauce to prevent both from overcooking. We learned the authentic way to make Chicken Paprikas and I don’t believe most restaurants would spend the time to make this dish correctly. We used only fresh ingredients. We made a vegetable stock for the soup, prepared and diced all the vegetables. Made homemade Spaetzel and homemade apple strudel. We also tasted local Hungarian wines as we cooked our lunch. We loved everything we cooked and so glad we took this cooking class. We learned so much and had a great time. P.S. I am a retired chef of 42 years in food service and I learned a few new tricks from Vesna.

Let me start with Vesna was the BEST! We met her at the market for great information and a tour of local foods. The ChefParade cooking school was a fantastic location and very professional. We had so much fun and the goulash, chicken paprikash, and apple strudel we made were the best food we had during our entire trip!! We had a great time and left with recipes and memories that will never be forgotten!!

This was a wonderful and informative class. Our chef Bridget was very knowledgeable and was very easy to understand. All of us enjoyed this class and would highly recommend it to other travelers.

Bernadette was incredible! My husband and 2 adult children greatly enjoyed this class. The instructor was easy to follow and I learned so much! We will definitely make this dish at home. Please consider taking this class and learning about the culture.

We had a wonderful morning with Vesna. We prepared three very authentic (and delicious) Hungarian dishes.

She was incredibly well prepared - everything was ready to go so just some chopping and stirring but a lot of attention and guidance given to the timing to ensure none of the ingredients were spoiled in any way and we got the best out of the spices etc, but lots of information provided about the ingredients and essentially a lovely sharing of information about how locals source, prepare and cook their food, which was very interesting.

Facilities were excellent. No pressure to rush our lunch, lots of drinks offered throughout.

Vesna is lovely, warm and engaging and passionate about her craft - highly recommended, it was a great experience for me and my teens.

Brigitte our chef was so lovely and helpful! I didn’t realise it was more of a group thing but we got our own copies of the recipes to take home and we all sat down together to share the meals everyone prepared. It was a really casual cooking class which felt more relaxed and fun.

Actually got some hands on cooking which was fun. Food was delicious and plentiful. Recipes provided. Really nice Chef teacher.