If you have never tried a supermarket elevator run by a lift boy with spirits and beer served in it, or haven’t been on the original steps (full of decals and graffiti) of the former „social realist” Corvin supermarket, or you are simply curious, how the logo of Kaisers and the Statue of L...
The author here has to confess he had a period in his life when he loved basement rooms, and one of his favourites was Műhely in Almássy street....
Fogas ház is a new foundation: it opened on the summer of 2009, and right after the summer season it closed again for a good half a year. After some redecoration and modification, at the end of May 2010 it finally opened its gates again....
Since (due to well known reasons) it is not possible to operate an entertaining unit in Tűzraktér, the barmen from there found a new courtyard and a new job for themselves in the Eighth District. This is Welfare Garden in Vajdahunyad Street, beyond the circle of the Nagykörút....
A few years ago we visited Amsterdam and slept in a small hostel, where boys and girls had to sleep in different rooms, but its garden and the dining room opening on it were so wonderful we sometimes got stuck there for half the day....
Instant is settled in the ’Pest Broadway’ area, not in the 7th district.
Diversity in one place. Gallery, café, pub, meeting place and a place for cultural events, too. In a place, where the room is turned upside down, and a school of fish passes above your head, anything can happen. ...
If one wanders into Kertem (My Garden), in Városliget, during the daytime, they might easily think there's something wrong with their eyes: while the rainbow-coloured garden chairs may remind them of the atmosphere of 80s at lake Balaton, on the tables they can only see lemonade glasses....
The case of the “Kiscsendes” is a good example of what consequences it might have if we do not visit a catering establishment (thought to be eternal) for long years.
Then we are pleasantly surprised if we find something else at its place.
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The history of Kőleves kert (Stone Soup Garden) illustrates perfectly how things are changing in the 7th district of Budapest....
The recipe of Kuplung: buy a big lounge in a rising street of Pest; give it to different art groups, where they can create in the daytime, and make programs at night; put down two bars, some benches and garden chairs, then watch as it begins to work and operate superbly. Since 2004. ...
Contemporary artist and ruinpub decorator Bertalan Babos Zsili and his team of other young contemporary artists have conquered Ráday street too after doing Szatyor, Csak Art Bar, and Csendes. With an excellent sense of purpose, they created a culture pub from the place next to Costes, the...
Although it is more difficult to get to R33 on foot or on a bike than to the ruinpubs of the 7th District, those apparently empty factory buildings are so exciting we simply had to go there and see for ourselves....
Right next to the legendary ruinpub line-up on Kazinczy street, in the 7th District, Akácfa street is now an up and coming new scene! There's Fogas ház, Fogaskert, do we need to list all of them? The new one is Sufni G'ART'N, under number 47....
The 8th District is slowly but surely catching up with the 7th in the number of its ruinpubs. We have already tested the nice and shady Gondozó kert and have spent many pleasant hours in Mixart. This last, sadly, didn't reopen this summer, but that doesn't mean you don't have to keep an ey...
Szimpla Kert (Simple Garden) is the pioneer of our ruinpubs. It is really a cult place giving new trends. Undoubtedly the best known ruinpub among the locals and the tourists, as well....
Ruinpubs were originally characteristic of the 7th district of Budapest (called Erzsébetváros, 'Elizabethtown'), but for a while they have been expanding into the other districts, on both sides of the river. How, then, could the 9th (Ferencváros, 'Francistown') be an exception?
(But let's...
