In the centre of Budapest on Vörösmarty square, for more than 150 years, Gerbeaud has defined what we know as a café and confectionery.
Our fame is due in part to our creative confectioners who, in addition to guarding tradition, continually surprise our guests with new products, cakes, pastries.
The confectioners pass down their knowledge from one generation to the next; every year skilful hands guide the many apprentices who start their careers in this genuine confectionery workshop. “Workshop” is probably the best term for Gerbeaud. A professional team where members value and evaluate each other’s work.
The crux of our philosophy is crafting products using only the freshest and highest quality ingredients. Our goal is to offer our guests unique, aesthetic cakes and pastries that can be found nowhere else in the country, in addition to serving traditional Hungarian products. Our task is to introduce new flavours and textures to those who are enthusiastic about gourmet foods, and to assist them in their discovery of top quality products. We strive to resurrect flavours from the rich past of Hungarian confectionery, and to recreate such flavours in forms that appeal to modern tastes and use current ingredients. This revitalization does not mean breaking with past ways—on the contrary, it is on the past that we build our future. Embracing new techniques, ingredients, tools, forms, equipment, and appliances, however, is indispensable.
With our desserts we want to pamper all senses. As with just about everything, first impressions of cakes are paramount—and for this reason we are looking to provide not just culinary, but aesthetic experience as well.
Besides the classic Dobos cake, Esterházy cake and Gerbeaud slice, Gerbeaud Café offers culinary delights such as the Chocolate-Coconut slice, the Orange-Caramel slice, Royal Chocolate, and the reinvented 21st-century Black Forest cake.
From classics that are forever changeable, we create exciting new products that are light and elegant, and suit today’s tastes.
We dare to dream sweet dreams!
