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Kelet Kávézó és Galéria
4.7(4,195 reviews)
Two floors on Bartók Béla út with thousands of books on the walls. Leave the one you brought, take another, and upstairs there are exhibitions.
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Butter Brothers Bakery & Bistro
4.6(1,522 reviews)
A Budapest craft bakery and bistro known for pastries such as croissants and chocolate rolls, as well as coffee.
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Cirkusz Café
4.7(7,240 reviews)Every day 07:30 – 16:00
Its name means circus. On Dob utca in the Jewish Quarter, it serves breakfast and brunch, with speciality coffee alongside.
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Fekete
4.3(2,778 reviews)Every day 08:00 – 19:00
Small, unfussy cafe offering coffee, breakfast & brunch plates alongside baked goods & sweets.
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Freyja - the bakery
4.7(274 reviews)
Behind the Great Market Hall on Csarnok Square, open since December 2025. Sourdough breads and pastries, all baked on the premises, at everyday prices.
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Déryné
4.6(5,911 reviews)
2-floor brasserie for Hungarian/French dishes, with garden, in-house bakery & pianist playing daily.
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Kollázs - Brasserie & Bar
4.6(1,409 reviews)FrenchBar
Inside the Gresham Palace of 1906, looking out at the Chain Bridge and the Danube. A French brasserie menu with Hungarian dishes worked into it.
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Émile Étterem
4.6(978 reviews)
A villa with a garden in Pasarét, holding a dining room, a café and its own bakery under one roof. Breakfast stays on the table all day.
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Costes Downtown
4.7(1,716 reviews)InternationalEvery day 12:00 – 15:00, 18:00 – 23:00
It opened on the ground floor of the Prestige Hotel in 2015. Living plants cover a wall and the ceiling, and Hungarian dishes are reworked in a modern hand.
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Babel Budapest
4.6(634 reviews)EuropeanCentral European
A Michelin-starred room of a dozen tables beside a Gothic church, where Transylvanian and Carpathian cooking meets Austro-Hungarian tradition.
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Belvárosi Disznótoros - Károlyi utca
4.4(1,939 reviews)
A downtown butcher's counter where you point at the sausages and roast meats, pay for them by the dekagram and eat standing at a high table.
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Frici Papa
4.3(13,585 reviews)
A kifőzde on Király utca since 1997, cooking Hungarian food the way it is cooked at home: goulash, chicken paprikash, rakott krumpli, in generous portions.
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Kőleves Vendéglő
4.6(3,237 reviews)
In the building of an old kosher meat plant on Kazinczy utca, named after the folk tale of stone soup. Hungarian and Jewish dishes, with cholent through winter.
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Bors GasztroBar
4.8(3,400 reviews)Fast FoodInternationalEvery day 11:30 – 21:00
A cramped counter on Kazinczy utca, open since 2012, serving inventive soups and filled baguettes that change from one day to the next.
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Kádár Étkezde
4.4(1,012 reviews)
Inexpensive, tiny lunchtime restaurant since 1950s, serving Jewish-style Hungarian soup & meat.
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Stand Étterem
4.8(690 reviews)
Sophisticated restaurant serving avant-garde local cuisine & desserts, plus a robust wine list.
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SALT
4.7(371 reviews)
Urbane, celebrated Hungarian kitchen at Hotel Rum Budapest serving homestyle dishes & natural wines.
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Borkonyha
4.6(2,602 reviews)
Contemporary cuisine with fois gras dishes & 200 Hungarian wines, in smart mirror-lined dining room.
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Textúra
4.7(1,691 reviews)
Chic contemporary restaurant offering creative takes on Hungarian dishes with wine-paring options.
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Arany Kaviár Étterem
4.8(520 reviews)
Open since 1990 in Budapest's castle district, this restaurant builds a Russian and French menu around caviar, with close to twenty varieties to choose from.
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Fény Street Market
4.3(4,271 reviews)
Multilevel, glass-roofed market hall with produce vendors, butchers & fishmongers, plus restaurants.
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Pizzica
4.7(4,122 reviews)
A thin-crust pizzeria on Nagymező utca. A plain room, slices to take away, and vegan options kept on the menu.
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ARAZ Restaurant
4.6(1,293 reviews)
Restored 19th-century baths, now sophisticated hotel restaurant for well-presented European dishes.
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Museum of Fine Arts Budapest
4.7(16,854 reviews)
The building on Heroes' Square opened in 1906. Inside, European painting and a Spanish room among the best outside Spain: El Greco, Velázquez, Goya.
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Hungarian National Gallery
4.7(11,230 reviews)
Hungarian art in the royal palace of Buda Castle since 1957, from medieval stone carving to the twentieth century. The steps up to the dome open the city.
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Ludwig Museum
4.5(3,379 reviews)
Inside the Müpa building on the Danube. A contemporary collection that began with the donation of Peter and Irene Ludwig.
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Magyar Népi Iparművészeti Múzeum
4.3(87 reviews)
On Corvin tér in Buda. Hungarian folk craft gathered in one place, weaving, embroidery, woodwork and ceramics.
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Hungarian National Museum
4.5(15,903 reviews)
Mihály Pollack's neoclassical building, opened in 1847. Hungary's history is laid out here from the stone age to the present.
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City Park
4.7(83,816 reviews)Every day 00:00 – 00:00
Budapest's great park. Inside it stand Vajdahunyad Castle, built for the millennium exhibition of 1896, the Széchenyi baths and the zoo.
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ELTE Füvészkert
4.7(8,949 reviews)Every day 09:00 – 17:00
Hungary's oldest botanical garden, founded by Jakab Winterl in 1771. Molnár's The Paul Street Boys passes through it, and Nemecsek stands beside a pond.
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Károlyi Garden
4.7(3,423 reviews)Every day 08:00 – 21:00
Once the back garden of the Károlyi Palace, redrawn in the French manner from 1768 and made a public park in 1932. It is the oldest garden in the city.
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Normafa Park
4.8(1,968 reviews)Every day 00:00 – 00:00
Elevated getaway providing hiking/biking paths, exercise equipment, wooded trails & panoramic views.
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Kopaszi-gát
4.6(16,685 reviews)Every day 00:00 – 00:00
A dam built across a Danube bay in south Buda in the 1870s, landscaped into a ten-hectare park in 2007. Pedal boats on the calm water, cafés along the bank.
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DOBLO Wine Bar
4.4(2,581 reviews)
A brick-walled cellar on Dob utca pouring Hungarian wine by the glass, with pálinka beside it and plates of cheese and cured meat.
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Boutiq Bar
4.7(1,472 reviews)
Open since 2008, this pioneering Budapest craft-cocktail bar is known for its broad spirits selection, house-made ingredients and eclectic decor.
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Kandalló Craft Beer & Burger Pub
4.6(4,167 reviews)
Small homely bar with wood tables for artisan beers & local brandies, plus Hungarian paté & burgers.
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Szimpla Kert
4.6(74,443 reviews)
In an abandoned building on Kazinczy utca. The rooms are furnished with salvage, a Trabant sits in the yard, and this was the first ruin bar.
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Élesztő
4.5(5,926 reviews)
Craft beers & traditional pub fare served in a trendy, warehouse-style venue that has a terrace.
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Akvárium Klub
4.2(4,318 reviews)
Built partly underground beneath a Budapest square, this nightclub and cultural venue has several concert halls and a bar below a glass-bottomed pool.
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A38 Hajó
4.5(9,028 reviews)
Built inside a decommissioned Ukrainian stone-carrier permanently moored on the Danube, this Budapest venue combines a bar, restaurant and concert hall.
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Ötkert Club
4.6(9,101 reviews)
Busy bar serving food plus big, informal club with DJs, live bands & open-air dance floor & terrace.
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Turbina Kulturális Központ
4.4(1,635 reviews)
A cultural centre in Józsefváros. Concerts, theatre and exhibitions under one roof, and a bar that opens in the evening.
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Doboz Ruin Pub & Bar
4.6(4,923 reviews)
Large 'ruin pub' converted from old buildings & courtyard, now club, bars & gallery with local art.
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