I stopped by here in January with my wife and a group of other Elite Yelpers for dinner. My wife and I had found out about Josza's Corner from a friend and I have had it bookmarked in Yelp ever since. However due to its location and reservation policy (4 or more on weeknights and 6 or more on weekend) we never made it there. Thankfully Anthony Bourdains show made it popular again and luckily for me fellow elite David B organized a community Yelp meet up for us here. As many others have noted this place isn't much to look at from the outside. My wife and I actually had a difficult time figuring out what door to go through. We chose the right one and ended up in the kitchen area where Alex, the owner, was using a mixer to make bread. We proceeded to squeeze through a small opening and headed to the back room where dinner was to be served. On the night that we visited there was also a group for a birthday celebration with who we ended up splitting a large table and all of the family style entrees. It was sort of weird but also sort of fun. As for the "dining room" itself, it consisted of a two large tables and then a lot of chacthke. To me it felt like we were in a large room at my Grandparents house with how crowded it was as well as with all the random stuff that was around.
For dinner on this evening we had a number of traditional Hungarian dishes. To start off we had a fried flatbread called Langos which was served with a side of Mushroom paprikash to dress the bread. While both were great I actually enjoyed the bread on its own and could have eaten a ton of it by itself. After we had finished with that our next dish was Hungarian Beef Goulash. That was followed by dishes of Haluski and then Transylvanian Goulash. As you would expect all of those were good and my favorite of the bunch was the Transylvanian goulash which was made with pork and sauerkraut and served with freshly baked loaves of braided peasant bread. Interestingly Alex had one of the diners cut the bread and had to teach him how to do it as they were still warm and would rip if done improperly. Finally to finish off the main courses is arguably the most common of Hungarian dishes in Chicken Paprikash. It was served with a Dill Cucumber Salad and was delicious. At the end of the meal a simple dessert in the form of a tray of dried apricots, chocolate chips and some fried dough was passed around. At this point Alex came back to the dining area to talk with us and boy could he talk. He was a fantastic storyteller and at the cajoling of David B sang some folk songs for us as well. It was definitely an interesting but good way to end what was a good experience.
The bottom line for me is that I would head back here again in the future. Yes it's definitely an unusual experience but a good one at that. It was actually good enough that my wife and I are working on trying to get a group of friends together so that we can head back.