Our Story
Where the Porto
Meets the Pest Bank
Porto di Pest takes its name literally: a porto, an Italian harbour table, set down on the Pest side of the Danube. We opened wanting Budapest to have a room that felt the way a good Italian trattoria feels — unhurried, warmly lit, and built around the table rather than the clock.
Our pasta is rolled by hand each morning, our dough rests for two days before it ever sees the wood-fired oven, and our cellar is stocked almost entirely from small Italian producers we visit ourselves. It's a small, deliberate kitchen — but every plate that leaves it is meant to taste like it was made for exactly one table.
"Sit close to the water. Let the pasta come to you." — The Porto di Pest welcome
