Chef Biography

When the Great Chefs television team traveled to Budapest Hungary in 1999, they filmed Chef Kalman Kalla at the world famous Gundel, that survived two world wars and years of economic crises under communism. He trained under Master Chef Egon Eigen at the Duna Hotel in Budapest, then the Hungarian Embassy in Washington DC, before arriving at the Gundel in Budapest.
Eleven years later, Chef Kalla moved to the mideast, and Gabor Merczi arrived from various cruise lines and luxury hotel in London.  Last year Chef Gabor was awarded a Maitre Rotisseur title by the international gastronomic association Chaine des Rotisseurs.

Recipes

Somló Sponge Cake

Yield: 1 Cake Print Somló Sponge Cake By Great Chefs March 7, 2014 This dessert was dreamt up by an employee of the Gundel restaurant, Károly Gollerits, who was the chief waiter of the restaurant for 16 years. He offered this desert as a surprise to his wife who was born in the region of […]

Palóc Soup

Print Palóc Soup By Great Chefs March 7, 2014 The writer and MP, Kálmán Mikszáth, who is often referred to as the Great Palóc, asked János Gundel, the founder of the most famous dynasty in Hungarian gastronomy, to make him a dish that would be characteristic of the region where the Palóc people live and […]

Restaurant Information

Phone :+36 1 468 4040
Address :1146 Budapest Állatkerti körút 4 Hungary

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