New York Cafe Budapest

One our tour guides advised that we should try this Cafe so we could taste local Hungarian Goulash.

The Cafe has lived through many eras, political systems and historical turning points and occupied by those who longed for its comforts for artists, members of the nobility and commoners.

At the turn of the 20th century the New York Cafe was said to be the most beautiful cafe in the world at that time and the most beloved coffee house in Budapest. It was a popular place among writers and editors, in fact, the most influential newspapers were edited here, upstairs in the gallery. After World War II, the once famous cafe fell into disrepair and it served as a sporting goods shop.

The cafe reopened in 1954, under the name of Hungaria and in 2006 that the New York Cafe was restored to its original splendour.Read more