Your grandmother’s recipe box might hold family secrets, but Belgrade Gardens in Barberton, Ohio, guards a chicken paprikash recipe that has converts making pilgrimages from across the state like it’s some kind of poultry-based religious experience.
This unassuming restaurant has quietly built a devoted following for its Hungarian-inspired dish that transforms simple ingredients into something that makes grown adults weep with joy.
The magic happens in a building that looks more like where you’d get your taxes done than where you’d find transcendent Eastern European cuisine.
But that’s the beauty of Ohio’s hidden culinary gems – they’re hiding in plain sight, serving extraordinary food to those wise enough to look beyond appearances…