Guidebook for Budapest

Helene
Guidebook for Budapest

Food Scene

Lovely traditional Hungarian pastry shop - one of the best around really. Cakes and decent coffee as well. Try rétes (Hungarian strudel), beigli (Winter time pastry with poppy seed or nut) etc. Small place but great for getting your breakfast supplies! Open 8-6pm on weekdays and 10-6pm on the week-end (including on Sunday).
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Budapest Cukrászda
23/a Bródy Sándor u.
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Lovely traditional Hungarian pastry shop - one of the best around really. Cakes and decent coffee as well. Try rétes (Hungarian strudel), beigli (Winter time pastry with poppy seed or nut) etc. Small place but great for getting your breakfast supplies! Open 8-6pm on weekdays and 10-6pm on the week-end (including on Sunday).
Excellent falafel and hummus straight out of Palestine, where the cook is from! Super cheap (600Ft for a falafel sandwich), all vegetarian, opens all days except on Sunday till 10pm at night.
Falafel Sziget
8 Somogyi Béla u.
Excellent falafel and hummus straight out of Palestine, where the cook is from! Super cheap (600Ft for a falafel sandwich), all vegetarian, opens all days except on Sunday till 10pm at night.
Authentic soul food as if you'd be in Louisiana. Good value for the money and nice staff! Read about it here: http://www.spottedbylocals.com/budapest/soul-food/
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Soul Food
32 Kazinczy u.
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Authentic soul food as if you'd be in Louisiana. Good value for the money and nice staff! Read about it here: http://www.spottedbylocals.com/budapest/soul-food/
Cucc is a very sweet second-hand shop that serves very good new wave coffee! I wrote about it here: http://www.spottedbylocals.com/budapest/, find the info on Facebook too https://www.facebook.com/cuccbudapest
Víg u. 22
22 Víg utca
Cucc is a very sweet second-hand shop that serves very good new wave coffee! I wrote about it here: http://www.spottedbylocals.com/budapest/, find the info on Facebook too https://www.facebook.com/cuccbudapest
Very decent Indian restaurant down my house! Can seem fancy but price-wise it's affordable.
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Curry House
9 Nyáry Pál u.
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Very decent Indian restaurant down my house! Can seem fancy but price-wise it's affordable.
A cafe, a restaurant and a bar, with a local bohemian atmosphere. Lots of plants and space. Old wooden table, nice food!
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Café Csiga
2 Vásár u.
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A cafe, a restaurant and a bar, with a local bohemian atmosphere. Lots of plants and space. Old wooden table, nice food!
Such a great street food joint! Only a few tram stops away. Vietnamese and Asian food + playful street art decoration on the walls. Read more:http://www.spottedbylocals.com/budapest/funky-pho/
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Funky Pho
7 Mozsár u.
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Such a great street food joint! Only a few tram stops away. Vietnamese and Asian food + playful street art decoration on the walls. Read more:http://www.spottedbylocals.com/budapest/funky-pho/
Fine lunch and dining with an emphasis on the wine. Excellent new Hungarian cuisine to be tried at an affordable price (the 8€ lunch menu is a bargain). Book ahead! http://www.spottedbylocals.com/budapest/fricska/
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Fricska Gastropub
56-58 Dob u.
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Fine lunch and dining with an emphasis on the wine. Excellent new Hungarian cuisine to be tried at an affordable price (the 8€ lunch menu is a bargain). Book ahead! http://www.spottedbylocals.com/budapest/fricska/
Nice café-bar around the corner with a bohemian touch, the food is more than OK (Asian + Hungarian food) but the service can be slow!
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Jelen Bisztro
1 Blaha Lujza tér
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Nice café-bar around the corner with a bohemian touch, the food is more than OK (Asian + Hungarian food) but the service can be slow!
Nearby low-key local restaurant. Traditional Hungarian food (huge portions, cheap proce!), the Goulash soup is not the best but the rest is totally fine. Menu in English.
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Rákóczi Restaurant
9 Rákóczi tér
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Nearby low-key local restaurant. Traditional Hungarian food (huge portions, cheap proce!), the Goulash soup is not the best but the rest is totally fine. Menu in English.
Best traditional Hungarian stews in town in a nice modern-rural setting in the heart of the Jewish district!
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Gettó Gulyás
18 Wesselényi u.
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Best traditional Hungarian stews in town in a nice modern-rural setting in the heart of the Jewish district!
Upper category traditional Hungarian Jewish restaurant.
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Macesz Bistro
26 Dob u.
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Upper category traditional Hungarian Jewish restaurant.

Drinks & Nightlife

Famous club on the top top floor of a former communist department store. Rap, r'n'b, but mostly underground electronic music as of now. Unique urban terrace in the summer! http://corvinteto.hu/
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Corvin Club & Roof Terrace
1-2 Blaha Lujza tér
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Famous club on the top top floor of a former communist department store. Rap, r'n'b, but mostly underground electronic music as of now. Unique urban terrace in the summer! http://corvinteto.hu/
In the same building as Corvintetö! On the very top floor of a former famous communist department store. That's where you'll find the really Hungarian underground! Artists, activists meet here for theater plays, concerts, debates or just good coffees (but no food). Closes quite early. Read more here: http://www.spottedbylocals.com/budapest/muszi-muvelodesi-szint/
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MÜSZI [Művelődési Szint]
1 Blaha Lujza tér
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In the same building as Corvintetö! On the very top floor of a former famous communist department store. That's where you'll find the really Hungarian underground! Artists, activists meet here for theater plays, concerts, debates or just good coffees (but no food). Closes quite early. Read more here: http://www.spottedbylocals.com/budapest/muszi-muvelodesi-szint/
CLOSED for the moment... One of the coolest alternative spaces in Budapest. DIY made, community-based, activist hotbed, nice gigs (live klezmer, world music, parties of all kind) and bar all weekdays.
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Auróra
11 Auróra u.
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CLOSED for the moment... One of the coolest alternative spaces in Budapest. DIY made, community-based, activist hotbed, nice gigs (live klezmer, world music, parties of all kind) and bar all weekdays.
All right, this place (10min fron the house) has become a Budapest symbol. It's a ruin bar set in a beautiful but crumbling house of the Jewish district. Bohemian atmosphere and LOADS of foreigners (it became touristy in the past few years). For a more local feeeling go there to shop at their very nice farmers' market on Sunday from 9 till 2pm.
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Szimpla Kert
14 Kazinczy u.
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All right, this place (10min fron the house) has become a Budapest symbol. It's a ruin bar set in a beautiful but crumbling house of the Jewish district. Bohemian atmosphere and LOADS of foreigners (it became touristy in the past few years). For a more local feeeling go there to shop at their very nice farmers' market on Sunday from 9 till 2pm.

Shopping

Authentic local Hungarian market-hall! Not as touristy as the Big Central market hall (not far from here), lower key but built at the same time and in a similar fashion. In the morning small producers get to sell their own veggies, honey, eggs, paprika... Mon: 6am-6pm, Tuesday-Friday 6am-6pm, Sat 6am-1pm
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Rákóczi Market Hall
7-9 Rákóczi tér
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Authentic local Hungarian market-hall! Not as touristy as the Big Central market hall (not far from here), lower key but built at the same time and in a similar fashion. In the morning small producers get to sell their own veggies, honey, eggs, paprika... Mon: 6am-6pm, Tuesday-Friday 6am-6pm, Sat 6am-1pm
Lovely cummunity-based organic grocery! Check out the details here: http://www.spottedbylocals.com/budapest/szatyorbolt/
Szatyorbolt
77 Rátz László u.
Lovely cummunity-based organic grocery! Check out the details here: http://www.spottedbylocals.com/budapest/szatyorbolt/
Wonderful little store selling vanity cases and all sorts of useful crafts made by handicapped and impoverished communities in Hungary.
Kabinet Galéria
15 Kőfaragó u.
Wonderful little store selling vanity cases and all sorts of useful crafts made by handicapped and impoverished communities in Hungary.

Essentials

Convenience store open 24h, sells a bit of everything including veggies, and even good bread...
Boldog Kft. ABC
3 Gutenberg tér
Convenience store open 24h, sells a bit of everything including veggies, and even good bread...

Getting Around

Metro 4 (connection with metro 3 at Fővám tér and metro 2 at Keleti pályaudvar). Tram 4/6: runs day and night, goes to Pest and Buda, super practical.
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Rákóczi tér
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Metro 4 (connection with metro 3 at Fővám tér and metro 2 at Keleti pályaudvar). Tram 4/6: runs day and night, goes to Pest and Buda, super practical.