My spouse and I dined at Huszar for dinner on a Friday
evening in late October 2019. Huszar is open for lunch, dinner, and drinks on
Tuesdays through Sundays (closed on Mondays). Diners can book a spot using the
online Open Table reservation system. (The word “Huszar” [alternate spelling
“Hussar”] refers to soldiers/horsemen from the 15th centuries.)
Reservations are recommended; the restaurant was full on the night that we
dined.
Huszar is located on the ground floor of a building/house at
the corner of East North Avenue and East Street, close to the Veteran’s Bridge
and the I-279 Parkway North and Allegheny Hospital. Prior to Huszar, since the
mid-1950s, the property operated as a neighborhood bar called the Recovery
Room. Huszar offers live music on certain nights. The long, dark dive-bar-ish space
features a big L-shaped bar with some tables adjacent, and towards the back of
the room, a few booths on one side with some high tops across from them.
Huszar serves Hungarian food, which makes me reminisce about
my childhood. We started with two dishes, langos (a kind of fry bread topped
with sour cream and shredded cheese and only available on weekends) and the
lecsos (cooked tomatoes, peppers, and onions served atop fried potato wedges;
this dish is actually an entrée, and is also available served with steak.) As
our main dishes, we ordered the chicken paprikash (shredded chicken covered in
a paprika cream sauce served atop homemade noodles/dumplings called nokedli
that resemble German spatzle) and the schnitzel. For dessert, we tried the apple
retes (strudel) and the palacsinta (crepes) filled with sweetened cottage
cheese.
We don’t often have the chance to sample Hungarian cuisine,
so we enjoyed our dinner at Huszar.
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