Beverage

Hungarian beverage (fizzy soft drinks, coffee, tea)

In Hungary fizzy soft drinks are available everywhere, for example mineral waters and fruit juices.  Hungarians usually drink coffee every morning at home, at workplace or in coffee houses. The coffee is made from the grounded coffee bean and it is very strong. The Hungarians drink tea but not so regular, and just with lemon and sugar. We never drink with milk like the English people.

Hungarian alcohol beverage

The most popular tipple is the pálinka, which is a fruit brandy. It is distilled from apricots, plums, pears, cherries, or peaches. 

The Unicum is a herbal and distinctive apéritif, which invented by József II. (hungarian king and court physician) and distilled by the Zwack family for 200 years. 

There are two types of beer in Hungary. The lager and the brown. The lager is similar in colour to English bitter but with a sweet flavour. The leading brands are Soproni, and Borsodi. 

Much beer is imported from the Czech Republic or brewed under the licence of foreign companies. For instance Tuborg, and HB. 

There are 20 Hungarian grape varieties and 22 wine regions, 75% is white wine, and 25% red wine. The most popular white wines are Királyleányka, Hárslevelű, Irsai Olivér, and Olaszrizling. In addition the Chardonnay, Tramini, and Sauvignon. These wines’ base is furmint. The best regions are located around Lake Balaton to the southwest of Budapest. The most famous white wine is the Tokaji. 

Kékfrankos, Kadarka, Cabernet, Merlot, and Pinot Noir are the most popular red wines. 

The red wines are lighter than people expect because of the country's cold winter. The best region is around Eger in the north, Szekszárd in the south and Villány which is close to the Croatian border. Wine is sometimes mixed with soda to make a spritzer, which called fröccs in Hungary.

English beverage

In the United Kingdom you can find all type of fizzy soft drinks as in Hungary. In my opinion the fruit juices are sweeter than in Hungary. The English people drink coffee too, but it is not strong, it is lighter than the Hungarian one. They drink tea with milk, especially strong tea. 

English alcohol beverage

The most popular tipple is the beer. There are two main types. One of the cider, which is made from apple, and the ale which is made from fresh and natural ingredients: hops, malted barley, water and yeast. Latter it goes well with food instead of wine. Ale is rich in vitamins and has genuine health benefits if you drink in moderation. It is traditionally British product.

The cider is mentioned with the perry, which is the same as the cider but is made from pear. In contrast the real ale which you can drink anytime of the year, the cider and perry can only be made when the fruit is ripe. The cider and perry is unique in every year it depends on the weather. The harvest time is between September and November.

There are a lot of ale, cider& perry festivals in United Kingdom each year.

References:

1. http://www.camra.org.uk/page.aspx?o=100359   (Accessed: 14/10/2010)
2. http://www.camra.org.uk/page.aspx?o=180624   (Accessed: 14/10/2010)
3. Charles Hebbert& Dan Richardson, (2006) The rough guide to Budapest. Rough Guides.
4. Adrian Phillips& Jo Scotchmer (2005) Hungary.Bradt Travel Guides.

Accommodations

Hungary

1. Hotels: A formal accommodation offering full hotel services.
2. Pensions and inns: Represent better value than hotels in the same star bracket. These looks like as a guesthouse, or bed and breakfast, or simply hotels. Facilities can be restaurant, sauna, swimming pool.
3. Private rooms and apartments:

·         Private rooms: Depending on location and amenities, prices for a double room range from pound16 for a night. In downside the rates are 30% higher.

·         Apartments are alternative for families and groups. These have equipped kitchen, bed linen, towels, TV, and radio.

4. Hostels and college accommodation:

·         Hostels are generally open in summer, and it costs less than Ł10.

·         College is available during student vacation and it costs Ł6.

5. Campsites: Budapest’s campsites are well-equipped and pleasant with trees, grass, and sometimes a swimming pool.

Accommodation rates are often quoted in euros, and of course in forint.

England

1. Hotels

·         Hotels: A formal accommodation offering full hotel services.

·         Country house hotel: A hotel with ample grounds or gardens set in a rural or semi-rural situation with an emphasis on peace and quiet.

·         Small hotel: Smaller hotels with a maximum of 20 bedrooms. They will be personally run by the proprietor and are likely to have limited function basis.

·         Town house hotel: A high quality property of individual and distinctive style with a maximum of 50 rooms, set in a town or city centre. High staff-to-guest ratio. Public areas may be limited. Possibly no dinner served, but room service available instead.

·         Metro hotel: A town or city hotel providing full hotel services with the exception of dinner. Within easy walking distance of a range of places to eat.

2. Guest accommodation: Informal accommodation with limited service, B&Bs, Inns, etc
3. Budget hotel: Uniform accommodation with limited service, roadside, budget lodge style

Reference:

http://www.theaa.com/travel_editorial/hotel_services_hotel_recognition_scheme.html  (Accessed: 05/12/2010)

http://www.visitbritain.com/hu/Accommodation/Accommodation-types/ (Accessed: 05/12/201)Charles Hebbert& Dan Richardson, (2006) The rough guide to Budapest. Rough Guides.
Adrian Phillips& Jo Scotchmer (2005) Hungary.Bradt Travel Guides.

Food

Hungarian

Breakfast

Sandwiches: ham, chorizo-like sausage, salami, cheese, with vegetables (tomato, cucumber, paprika), the bread is white bread. Sometimes boiled egg or fried egg.

Lunch

This is the main event and comprises two courses. The first one is a soup, the second one is a meat-based food with side dishes. Soups are: chicken soup, fruit soup, smokey kidney-bean soup, fisherman’s soup etc. The most famous soup is the goulash, which is cooked in a cauldron. 

 Goulash Soup

A traditional stew is made from meat, especially pork, beef, or chicken. 

 Chicken stew

Other popular choices are stuffed cabbage and stuffed pepper (which is filled with minced meat).

 Stuffed cabagge

The side dishes are dumplings (galuska or nokedli), couscous-type pasta (tarhonya), potato croquettes (krokett), and rice. There are hundreds of meals which I can not list.

Dinner

We usually eat the lunch leftover, or sandwich. 

English

Breakfast

Bowl of cornflakes and cup of tea, bowl of muesli and fresh orange juice, piece of toast with marmalade, yoghurt and fresh fruit with black coffee or tea. The traditional English breakfast is the ham (or sausages) and eggs. It is a cooked meal with toast. Nowadays it is served in hotels for foreigners. 

 Lunch

The lunch is light and it is eaten at school or work. Popular lunches: salad or sandwich, baked potato, beans on toast. Snacks are very popular, people eat it between meals. At schools and works there are a lot of vending machines which provide crisps, biscuits, chocolates.Sometimes they eat eels, pies, mash, fish and chips, crayfish, oyster, scallop, cornish pasty and pork pies.

Dinner

The dinner is the main meal. It is usually meat or fish and vegetables, and after it dessert or pudding. There are lots of precooked, and pre-packed food.

I don’t like the pre-cooked meals and snacks. Sometimes I eat snack, but it is not regular. At home I cook Hungarian meals, not English. It is difficult to find the Hungarian ingredients in England, but nowadays we can find these in Polish shops.

Reference List:
Hebbert& Dan Richardson, (2006) The rough guide to Budapest. Rough Guides.
Adrian Phillips& Jo Scotchmer (2005) Hungary.Bradt Travel Guides.
Mark Hix, (2006) British regional food. Quadrille publishing Ltd.

Restaurants

Commercial foodservice concepts
The restaurant structure is the same either in Hungary and in England. But in Hungary you can not find any English restaurant, but in England you can find some Hungarian ones.

1. Fast food establishment
2. Coffee shops
3. Pastry shop
4. Fine dining
5. Self-service restaurant
6. Indian, Oriental, Asian, 
• Italian, Greek, Spanish restaurants in Hungary

Ownership:

1. Independent restaurant
2. Chain restaurant
3. Franchise

Reference list:
Hebbert& Dan Richardson, (2006) The rough guide to Budapest. Rough Guides.
Adrian Phillips& Jo Scotchmer (2005) Hungary.Bradt Travel Guides. 
Cousins, J. and Lillicrap, D. (2010) Essential food and beverage service for levels 1 and 2. London: Hodder Education.

Inns

I would like to compare and contrast the Inns in Hungary and in United Kingdom. We called in Hungary: Vendéglő, and csárda.
  It is almost the same, but there is a little difference. So the same thing is that the Inn is not just where you can eat, you can stay for days. It is not like a 5 star hotel, it is like a “rural hotel”.

  In UK the Inn has got a very long history. In the early centuries the inn wasn’t just to stay and eat, people could fed their horses. The Inn is typically long established and located in the country or along a highway. Some pub call themselves inn, because of long establishment. All of the inns are individual, and the inns are not the same on South and on North. They offer traditional british food and drink (beer, ale, cider). Nowadays a lot of inns stand.

In Hungary we know two type of inn. The old one is called csárda, the modern one is vedéglő. First of all I would like to introduce the csárda. The csárda is located in a habited area, or along the highway. The csárdas have been placed with 20-40km distance from each other. This was the place where people could eat and stay, and fed their horses. The heyday was in the 18th century, and nowadays there some of them still stand. It was built in a traditional hungarian folk style. The roof was built from straw and there was a porch. Offers a small variety of traditional hungarian food, and drinks (beer, wine, pálinka). You can listen traditional hungarian live folk music.

The vendéglő is a little bit different from csárda. It is more modern, and you can just eat. It is smaller than a restaurant, and it has got a family atmosphere. The customers are the local residents, or they come from the near villages, towns.  The owner takes his/her part from the tasks. You can eat not just traditional hungarian food  but international food so the variety is much bigger than in the csárda. 

Reference List:
Hebbert& Dan Richardson, (2006) Therough guide to Budapest. Rough Guides.
Adrian Phillips& Jo Scotchmer (2005) Hungary.Bradt Travel Guides.Sargent Michael, (1998) Successful pubs and inns. 2nd edt. Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd.

  

Introduction

My name is Orsolya Szücs, I am a first year student at Hospitality Management BA course, University of Derby.
From Introduction to hospitality lesson we got a task to make a blog. Until July I lived in Hungary so that is why I chose to compare and contrast the Hungarian and English Hospitality. My blog name is hunglish which means Hungarian-English. It will be a challange for me, but I hope everybody will like it.
  First of all, I would like to speak a little about Hungary. Hungary is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin in Central Europe. The capital city is Budapest. The population is about 10 million, in contrast in the United Kingdom is more than 49 million.
If you would like to know more about Hungary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary

The distance between Hungary and United Kingdom is about 2000km/1242 miles.

In the next entries I will show what is the difference between the two country. I will use books, my experinces, webpages, journals etc.