Trattoria Pomo D'oro, 9 Arany Janos Utca, 1051 Budapest, Hungary

The best penne arrabiata in the world is in Mexico City at a restaurant whose name I forget.

Thankfully, some of the other amazing Italian food is in Trattoria Pomo D'oro in...er...Budapest.

Our hotel told us that Pomo D'oro was casual. They lied. 

With all the open brickwork and heavy wooden tables they're definitely going for rustic charm. The clientèle dining on the Saturday night of Jubilee weekend may have had all the charm in the world, but there was nothing rustic about them: unless you call perfectly applied makeup, properly adorned bling and men in pink shirts, blue blazers and espadrilles rustic. 

Due to the impressive masking properties of the colour black, we just about managed to look like we belonged...sort of.  

Once again, we were blessed by a little Hungarian humour (who'd have thought), and fresh, well-prepared food. 

There were plenty of pastas and pizzas available for veggies - so many, that I have forgotten just how many. 

I had homemade green tortellini stuffed with spinach and ricotta, served with walnut and gorgonzola sauce...it was so good that I'm considering using D-Licious to describe it, but even this would not do it justice...the only way to capture the taste is to confess that I closed my eyes (just a little) to savour the flavours...

Pirate Mole had a veg ravioli - I forget what was in it (maybe it was pumpkin) but, I know that she too loved her main...as did Stubborny, who had wild mushroom tagliatelle...mmmm...tagliatelle...

Fiancé had some sort of meat feast pizza with white asparagus: Meat feast pizza: 1...white asparagus: 0.

The amazing food was washed down with equally amazing wine...which was washed down with a bloody good pudding of hot chocolate cake (it was really just chocolate fondant)...which was washed down with damn fine coffee...which was finished of by a really good sleep. Peace out. 

Price: 23, 646.61 HUF, (Approx £65.00) for 3 x glasses of red wine, 2 x starter, 4 x main, 3 x dessert, 3 x coffee and service charge/
Veggie Friendly: 4/5
Food: 5/5
Service: 5/5
Atmosphere: 5/5