Paprika House - Calgary

Popped in for lunch, wow. Fantastic service, excellent food, portion sizes are HUGE!!! It also is very clean.

The food here is delicious and quite reasonably priced. Generous portions of schnitzel and spaetzle. The server is very hospitable and friendly. We were here for dinner, and would like to try some of the lunch menu, too!

The food was alright. I had bakonyi marhaszelet, which translates into beef slices with bacon.It is true a beef roast cannot be prepared in 10 min, so it had to be cooked previously. The sauce could ssemed to have been pre-made. It could be fresher. I am not sure the dish was authentic, based on Google researches. Hungarian websites use pork chops in the recipe, not beef.It was good for a one-time visit.

The owners are so nice and the food is wonderfully authentic. We had the hortobagy and felt like we were right back in Budapest.

The bar was set high when I went for lunch with a friend. I have a Hungarian background and grew up on that style of cooking and compare all Hungarian dishes to the home made tastes of my extended family. My friend and I tried several dishes which I found both delicious and authentic.The Goulash soup was flavorful, richly seasoned and full with tender morsels of beef. Special of the day was Vadas Hus, a very traditional dish of "cut with a fork tender" slice of beef, large dumplings and a rich, slightly tangy sauce made from pureed vegetables which flavor is difficult to get right. They nailed it and it was as good as I've had in Budpest recently. The stuffed pepper was large and perfectly cooked with a slightly sweet tomato sauce that again was authentic in taste. The filling was tasty but almost too meaty as I prefer mine with slightly more rice for texture. The restaurant is located in a strip mall on 11th Ave and 5th street in a reasonably sized, somewhat darkly decorated space. although the décor could be lighter and brighter, that's esthetics. I came for the authentic tastes and was not disappointed and I am already looking forward to a return visit with family.