You can find everything in Kazinczy street that is really interesting in the inner districts of Pest: leaning on the high brick walls of torn-down tenement buildings, new houses grow out of the earth, neon signs blink on the side of the museum near the synagogue; and between the real class...
The term ruin pub is at the end of its career as trendy: 'art bar' is the next fashionable concept, referring to a place where one can consume both culture and alcohol....
Who says ruinpubs don’t make contributions to the (parts of the) city! The best example is Szimpla Kert and its neighborhood, quickly filling up with tourists in the summer. We have mentioned Blue Horse, a ’clothpub’; right next to that, there is Amber Minor (Kis Parázs), a thai restaurant...
Garzon (“Flatlet”)
„Flatlet: This is a kind of small, compact type of flat, which usually consists of one room, a small bathroom and a kitchen - kitchenette.”
For many of us this kind of flat used to be the first home in Budapest, after living in dormitories and rented rooms for some...
If you are at Blaha Lujza square and you don’t feel like climbing up to the roof, you won’t find yourself without a ruin pub. Go around Corvin department store, and be welcome at Jelen (Present)....
We have already noted that old school ruinpubs have started to give way to places where alcohol is mixed with art, defining themselves as art pubs or cafés. These exciting terms usually mean a good vibe and pubs boosted with some culture. But sometimes a real novelty, something surprising ...
If you throw a stone in the 7th District, it's sure to hit the door of a ruinpub, but that still doesn't mean it's pointless to open another one. What's more, as the example of Kisüzem (Small Industrial) shows, one can never have enough of places with jazz and exhibitions. ...
Up to now, Kossuth Club has been associated with serious, grown-up programmes. When we were at the university, a sign saying 'Popular Academic Circle' was put up on the building, and even now it is home to the lectures of the József Attila Frre University, the classes of the Károli Gáspár ...
If you want the atmosphere of 70s Balaton holidays in Budapest: you have to aim at Pántlika in Városliget...
To discover Pótkulcs, we have to cross Teréz körút. There is no graffiti or bodyguards indicating the place, yet the address on the webpage is correct. Behind the fence hides a ruin pub so close to our hearts in a nice old-fashioned house with garden....
When we entered the Shopping Bag Bar and Gallery in Bertalan street during a nostalgic walk in New Buda, I thought: man, this is large! It's more like a travelling bag than a shopping bag, it's got so many things inside! The origin of the name was, then, explained on the blog of the place ...
Some places which used to be the protagonists of Great Boulevard for years nowadays are in sweeping changes....
For those who mourn for the art cinemas of Budapest, we tell this: the Toldi cinema is alive and well. All thanks to the redecoration carried out in 2008 summer and the fine café placed in the front hall....
