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Hungarian Restaurants🍲
❤️ Két szerecsen - a must go, French bistro revisiting Hungarian and local culinary with a little french touch. Recommended to book a table ahead!
- Marumba (new tapas like hungarian food - people say its amazing)
- Ruben (really good quality, good prices),
- Gettó Gulyás,
- Menza,
- Déryné (stylish bistro),
- Vagon Bistro (it’s an actual old train),
- Náncsi Néni Restaurant (in summer beautiful garden)
Restaurants of other nations 🍕🍙
- 101 Bistro - Best taiwaneese restaurant
❤️ Dobrumba, Pingrumba ( middle east like tapas places, very good ones)
- IGEN - pizza Napoletana
❤️ Manu+ - Pizza Napoletana with a good touch of local ingredients
- OSHO (oriental soup house) - best pho soup place
- Ramenka - ramens
❤️ Bors gastro bar - really nice takeaway soup and sandwich bar!!
Brunch 🍳🥞🥑🥓
- Franziska,
- Deszka Budapest
- DoubleShot coffee and brunch
- Horizont brunch and coffee
- KicsiZso - their breaded brios with goose liver and purple onion jam is heavenly
- Villa Bagatell (a bit luxy fancy style)
- Cinamon (tiny, better to go early)
- Török Méz (no booking possible, in peak times long waiting time)
Cafés☕️🍷🍰
- Artizán bakery and café - in the city center - nice cinnamon buns and specialty coffee
- Dorádó - cakes and cookies🍰
- Kelet - cute cafe with eastern style
- Norma Grand - Nordic style cafe bakery
- My Little Melburn - amazing cafe
Pubs🍻🥙🥘
- Csendes (ruin pub style)
- Kisüzem ( very local and central with good food)
- Fekete kutya ( hipster hungarians to be found there)
- Központ ( very central and popular among locals, lots of bars around to discover)
❤️ Szimpla kert - most famous ruin pub
- Twentysix Budapest ( looking great, quite spacious with good drinks)
- Csendes Társ - cute terrace next to a park
❤️LUMEN ( good food and drinks , local with lot of young people)
- Keksz (cute, locals love it)
- Hintaló - alternative cool place
*Szatyor - ruinpub Style
*Hadik - stylish, restaurant style they are joined with Szatyor
*Béla - Colorful, some sandwiches
*Kelet (also great cakes, vegan options, nice coffee&pub)
*Mitzi —> *:these are all on Bartók Béla str. basically anything there is good.
- Nemdebár - the real alternative pub of the Buda side 🤙 (don’t expect to have a table, there’s always like a festival amount of people :D)
Rooftop bars
- Leo - beautiful view over the city
- St Andrea Sky bar
- 360 (beautiful view of the Opera)
- White raven sky bar
- Liz and Chain sky bar
- The Duchess rooftop bar
Thermal Baths ♨️🧖🏻♂️🧖🏼♀️
❤️ Széchenyi (biggest, great outside area)
- VeliBej (500 year old fully renovated Turkish thermal bath)
- Rudas (good view from the rooftop jacuzzi- i would go there for the sunset)
❤️ Gellért (rather big name and nice architecture, personal favourite)
- Lukács (old style, like a labyrinth).
Must see 🏰⛰🚃
❤️ The Castle (secret tip: after the top must see-s, walk on Tóth Árpád sétány in the sunset 🌅 in spring enjoy the cherry blossom trees) ,
eat a rétes (Strudel) at RétesVár in the Castle
❤️ Fisherman’s Bastillon and Matthias church
- Szent István Bazilika
- Margit-híd - view from there
❤️ Szabadság híd - beautiful view over the river, great to sit on the bridge and have a drink with friends!
- Lánchíd - you can walk down to the bridge from the castle
- Parliament (Kossuth tér)
- Szabadság tér
❤️ Hösök tere and Vajdahunyad vára
- Türbe of Gül Baba - Turkish site, with beautiful view in the city
❤️ Gellért hill - also beautiful view over the city!!! from this Russian freedom statue🥲
- Ride with tram nr. 2 (beautiful view)
- House of terror - great museum about 20th century hungarian history and politics
Cool Hungarian designer stores 👜🧥🪡
- NOS
- Lollipop
- Wonderlab
- Retrock
- Printa
Other beautiful cities close to Budapest🏞
- Szentendre (amazing little old town, available with S-Bahn in 40 minutes)
- Visegrád (castle on a hill with a stunning go view on the Danube-curve)
- Vác - cute little old down by the Danube-curve
- Kisoroszi szigetcsúcs - the tip of the Szentendre island, which splits the Danube in two. A must visit during summer. (View on the castle of Visegrád.)
- Tihany - a bit further away (~1:45 by car), by lake Balaton. But a must to see in Hungary (along with the wine yards and terraces with a view over Balaton on its northern side… but that’s another loooong list :D)
Note: Thanks to Matheus Gariglio and his wonderful notes on Nice for the idea and Kata Sik for the Budapest ideas 😘