Saturday, September 26, 2009

Dos and don'ts

If you are in Budapest, there is a chain of stores that you really should avoid. Office. I can't even post the link to the Hungarian (East european) store here, as the site is reported as malicious by Google.
So, what can you buy there? Shoes. Which in itself is fine, but the staff in both the WestEnd store and the one on Váci utca are terrible. I've been to both, and service is worse than lousy, they seem to be there to have fun amongst each other, and trash the customers if they think you don't speak hungarian. It's like they are in 6th grade. In Váci utca, they even tried to scam us off the pity change they owed us, 10Ft. A useless amount, but stupid thing to do as a store, after treating you like shit.
You have been warned.


Better news though, a good place to go to (though not for shoes) is the Nádas büfé in Palatinusz strand on Margit sziget. Of course, this is only in the summertime.
The guy that has the place is probably the nicest and most customer focused "restaurant" owner I've ever met. You always feel welcome, and I hope we´ll find him there for many years to come.
You have been tipped. ;)

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