Restaurant in Encs, Hungary
Bib Gourmand value far outside Budapest.
Anyukám Mondta holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for both 2024 and 2025 — making it the standout dining option in northeastern Hungary's Encs, and one of the most affordable Michelin-recognised restaurants in the country. At €€ pricing with a 4.8 Google rating across 3,800+ reviews, it earns a detour for anyone travelling the Tokaj corridor.
Most people driving through Encs are looking for a petrol station, not a Michelin-recognised restaurant. That assumption is worth correcting. Anyukám Mondta — the name translates roughly as "My Mum Said So" — has held a Michelin Bib Gourmand in both 2024 and 2025, placing it among a small group of Hungarian restaurants outside Budapest that Michelin's inspectors consider worth a special trip. At the €€ price tier, it is one of the most affordable Bib Gourmand-endorsed dining experiences in the country. If you are passing through northeastern Hungary or planning a detour from the Tokaj wine route, this is where you should eat.
The misconception worth addressing first: this is not a Budapest restaurant that happens to be in the countryside. Encs is a small town in Abaúj-Hegyköz, a rural district in Borsod-Baranya-Zemplén county, roughly an hour's drive from Miskolc and within reach of the Tokaj wine region. The restaurant's identity is rooted in its location, not despite it. The name itself signals the register: home cooking, maternal authority, the kind of food that doesn't need to explain itself. Against that backdrop, the Italian cuisine designation is the one thing that genuinely surprises. A Bib Gourmand Italian restaurant in a small Hungarian market town is not a combination that announces itself on any obvious map of European dining.
That specificity matters for your decision. You are not going to Anyukám Mondta for a survey of Hungarian regional cooking or for the kind of contemporary tasting menu you'd find at Stand in Budapest or Pajta in Őriszentpéter. You are going because Michelin's inspectors found something worth recognising in a format , Italian, accessible pricing, provincial setting , that could easily have been unremarkable. That combination, sustained across two consecutive Bib Gourmand years, is the signal that makes the detour worth considering.
The address places the restaurant on Petőfi Sándor út, a main street in Encs, which means you are eating in a town rather than an isolated rural compound. Visually, expect a Hungarian provincial dining room rather than the spare, design-forward interiors you'd associate with urban bistronomy. That is the right frame. The visual experience here is small-town Hungarian hospitality: the kind of room where the tables are set with care and the surroundings are unpretentious. For a food-focused traveller, this is not a drawback , it reframes what the Bib Gourmand recognition actually means. The quality signal is coming entirely from the plate and the kitchen, not from a room that has been curated to imply quality.
Encs does not have a long list of destination restaurants. For residents of the town and surrounding villages, Anyukám Mondta functions as the kind of anchor that most provincial Hungarian towns lack: a kitchen good enough to draw visitors in, consistent enough to hold the loyalty of locals, and priced accessibly enough that it is not functioning as an occasional-treat restaurant for the few. The Bib Gourmand designation , awarded specifically for good cooking at moderate prices , is structurally well-matched to what a restaurant in this context should be doing. Comparable rural Bib Gourmand holders in Hungary, such as Platán Gourmet in Tata or 42 Restaurant in Esztergom, demonstrate that Michelin has a consistent interest in recognising provincial kitchens that anchor their communities. Anyukám Mondta fits that pattern in northeastern Hungary, a region that receives less dining attention than the Balaton shore or the Budapest belt.
For the travelling food enthusiast, the positioning within northeastern Hungary adds practical value. If you are already in the Tokaj wine region visiting wineries, or making the drive between Budapest and Slovakia, Encs sits on a logical corridor. Pairing a winery visit in Tokaj with dinner at Anyukám Mondta is a sensible itinerary , the kind of regional eating day that delivers more depth than either stop would alone. For more on the broader regional dining picture, see Andrassy Restaurant in Tarcal and Avalon Ristorante in Miskolc as nearby reference points in the same northeastern corridor.
At €€, this is accessible dining by any standard. Michelin's Bib Gourmand threshold is explicitly calibrated for value , a three-course meal under a regional price ceiling , so the award functions as a direct value endorsement, not just a quality one. Booking difficulty is rated Easy, which is consistent with a provincial restaurant operating outside the pressure of a major city. You are unlikely to need to plan weeks in advance, though calling ahead is sensible given limited public information on hours and seat count. No website or phone number is currently listed in available records, so the most reliable approach is to check local directory listings or Google before making the trip. A Google rating of 4.8 from over 3,800 reviews is a strong secondary signal , that volume of reviews for a small-town restaurant implies a loyal and broad customer base, not just occasional visiting diners.
For context on where Anyukám Mondta sits within Hungarian dining more broadly: the Bib Gourmand tier positions it below one-star territory but explicitly above the level of a direct local trattoria. If you are comparing the Italian dining options available in Hungary, the Budapest alternatives , Alelí and Fausto's , operate in a more competitive urban field. Anyukám Mondta's case for your attention is different: it is the best-documented quality option in its specific geography, in a format that Michelin has validated twice in succession. For the food traveller building an itinerary through northeastern Hungary, that is a more useful fact than any comparison against the Budapest scene. See also our full Encs restaurants guide, Encs hotels guide, and Encs experiences guide for broader trip-planning context, and our Encs bars guide and Encs wineries guide if you are building a full day around the region.
Go in knowing it is a Michelin Bib Gourmand Italian restaurant in a small provincial Hungarian town , that combination is the whole point. Pricing sits at the €€ tier, making it accessible rather than occasion-only dining. It is easy to book, but hours and contact details are not consistently published online, so confirm before travelling from a distance. The 4.8 Google rating across 3,800+ reviews suggests consistent quality rather than a one-off performance.
Smart casual is the appropriate call. This is a Michelin-recognised restaurant at €€ pricing in a provincial Hungarian town , formal dress would be out of place, but so would beach wear. Think the kind of outfit you'd wear to a good neighbourhood Italian in any European city: clean, considered, comfortable.
Yes, clearly. The Michelin Bib Gourmand is awarded specifically to restaurants delivering good cooking at moderate prices , it is the award's explicit value endorsement. At €€ in a region where dining options are limited, you are getting Michelin-validated quality at a price point that would buy you a mediocre tourist meal in Budapest. The two consecutive Bib Gourmand years (2024 and 2025) confirm this is not a one-cycle fluke.
No dietary restriction information is available in current records, and the restaurant has no listed website or phone number to check in advance. If dietary needs are a factor, your leading option is to contact them directly via Google Maps or a local directory listing before visiting. Italian cuisine at this price tier typically offers some flexibility, but confirm rather than assume.
No tasting menu information is confirmed in available records. Given the €€ pricing and Bib Gourmand positioning , which Michelin calibrates against a moderate per-head spend , a full tasting menu format would be unusual at this tier. If you are looking for a structured tasting experience in Hungary, Alkimista Kulináris Műhely in Szeged or Botanica in Dánszentmiklós may be more relevant. Anyukám Mondta's value case rests on accessible à la carte or fixed-price dining, not on a tasting menu format.
Within Encs itself, documented alternatives at this quality level are limited , which is part of what makes this restaurant significant to the area. For comparable Italian dining in Hungary at €€, Alelí in Budapest and Fausto's in Budapest are the reference points, though both require a trip to the capital. In the northeastern region more broadly, Avalon Ristorante in Miskolc offers Italian dining in a larger city about an hour away. For a different cuisine but similar Bib Gourmand-level value in the region, check our full Encs restaurants guide.
| Venue | Awards | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anyukám Mondta | Michelin Bib Gourmand (2025); Michelin Bib Gourmand (2024) | €€ | — |
| Babel | Michelin 1 Star | €€€€ | — |
| Borkonyha Winekitchen | Michelin 1 Star | €€€ | — |
| Rumour by Rácz Jenő | €€€€ | — | |
| Stand25 Bisztró | €€ | — | |
| Bilanx | €€ | — |
A quick look at how Anyukám Mondta measures up.
This is a Michelin Bib Gourmand-recognised restaurant in a small town in northeastern Hungary, not a Budapest establishment. The Bib Gourmand award, held in both 2024 and 2025, signals genuine value rather than prestige pricing, so the expectation is skilled cooking at an accessible €€ price point. Getting here requires deliberate planning since Encs is not on most tourist routes, but that detour is the point. If you are travelling through the region, build a meal here rather than treating it as a secondary stop.
The venue data does not specify a dress code, and the Bib Gourmand tier generally aligns with relaxed, neighbourhood-level dining rather than formal attire. A Bib Gourmand recognition in a town like Encs suggests the atmosphere is approachable rather than ceremonial. Dress neatly and you will be fine; a jacket is unlikely to be required.
At €€ pricing and with back-to-back Bib Gourmand recognition in 2024 and 2025, yes. Michelin's Bib Gourmand threshold is specifically calibrated to flag places where you eat well without overspending, so the award is itself an endorsement of the value equation. If you are measuring this against Budapest alternatives at similar prices, the absence of city overheads likely means more is going into the food.
No dietary policy is documented in the available venue data. Given the €€ price point and small-town setting, options may be more limited than at a larger city restaurant. check the venue's official channels before booking if dietary requirements are a factor, particularly for more restrictive needs.
Menu format is not confirmed in the venue data, so a specific tasting menu recommendation cannot be made. What is confirmed is Italian cuisine at a €€ price point with two consecutive Bib Gourmand awards, which points toward a focused, value-led menu rather than an elaborate multi-course format. Check current offerings directly with the restaurant before assuming a tasting menu is available.
There are no comparable Michelin-recognised alternatives documented in Encs itself. If you want to benchmark the quality level, the Budapest comparisons are Stand25 Bisztró and Babel, both of which operate in a similar Bib Gourmand or accessible fine dining range but at city prices. Anyukám Mondta's case is specifically that it delivers at this level outside of Budapest, which is the distinction worth making.
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