If you're looking for meat in a wide and wonderful variety of forms, you must go to a culture that is based on meat, that takes its children straight from the breast to the T-bone. You need Bandi's, the little Hungarian restaurant on Howe Street. At least half the foie gras sold in France comes from Hungary. Meat, meat and meat. Bandi's has been there almost forever, making a special kind of comfort food, food that came before the diet police, with absolutely no concession to fads or fashion.
Duck is well cooked, on top of sauerkraut, alongside lovely soft red cabbage with cloves.
There is lentil soup expanded with very lean Hungarian sausage, sauerkraut soup with even more sausage and cabbage rolls, not saturated with tomato sauce but filled with meat and wrapped in sauerkraut. The occasional prawn may creep on to the menu, or a trout, but mostly it's meat. It's also the most romantic little house in town. Southam Digital Inc. All rights reserved.