Guidebook for Budapest

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Guidebook for Budapest

Food Scene

134 locals recommend
VakVarjú Restaurant
7 Paulay Ede u.
134 locals recommend
trendy bistro-pub
113 locals recommend
Spíler Original és Shanghai
13 Király u.
113 locals recommend
trendy bistro-pub
Good Hungarian & French kitchen. Affordable prices.
27 locals recommend
Cafe Vian Gozsdu Udvar
13 Király u.
27 locals recommend
Good Hungarian & French kitchen. Affordable prices.
popular meeting point with friends for lunch, dinner
548 locals recommend
Menza Restaurant
2 Liszt Ferenc tér
548 locals recommend
popular meeting point with friends for lunch, dinner
The most popular Michelin star place. Reservation for dinner is strongly reccomended.
174 locals recommend
Borkonyha Winekitchen Restaurant
3 Sas u
174 locals recommend
The most popular Michelin star place. Reservation for dinner is strongly reccomended.
One of the most popular bistros.
94 locals recommend
Zeller Bistro
18 Hercegprímás u.
94 locals recommend
One of the most popular bistros.
The amazing New York Café with the title the most beautiful café of the world. Must for a coffee, tea, cake or snacks.
465 locals recommend
New York Palace
9-11 Erzsébet krt.
465 locals recommend
The amazing New York Café with the title the most beautiful café of the world. Must for a coffee, tea, cake or snacks.
Very good familiar bistro with perfect value. Reservation is reccomended.
129 locals recommend
Bock Bisztró
43-49 Erzsébet krt.
129 locals recommend
Very good familiar bistro with perfect value. Reservation is reccomended.
Stylish café & restaurant with end of 19th century feeling. Popular for Sunday Brunch.
63 locals recommend
Gerlóczy Cafe & Brasserie
1 Gerlóczy u.
63 locals recommend
Stylish café & restaurant with end of 19th century feeling. Popular for Sunday Brunch.
Popular bistro-restaurant with trendy ambience at the Kempinski Hotel on the Shopping Street Deák Ferenc utca. Perfect Brunch options on weekend and festive days.
10 locals recommend
ÉS Bisztró
12 Deák Ferenc u.
10 locals recommend
Popular bistro-restaurant with trendy ambience at the Kempinski Hotel on the Shopping Street Deák Ferenc utca. Perfect Brunch options on weekend and festive days.
Trendy bistro with good Hungarian dishes. Good value, also dinner with live music.
58 locals recommend
Budapest Bistro
3 Fortuna u.
58 locals recommend
Trendy bistro with good Hungarian dishes. Good value, also dinner with live music.
Popular for traditional and typical Hungarian cuisine. Allwys busy with tourists.
53 locals recommend
Hungarikum Bisztró
13 Steindl Imre u.
53 locals recommend
Popular for traditional and typical Hungarian cuisine. Allwys busy with tourists.
Beautiful historical café with hot drinks, cakes and snacks.
97 locals recommend
Central Cafe and Restaurant 1887
9 Károlyi utca
97 locals recommend
Beautiful historical café with hot drinks, cakes and snacks.
Trendy & huge Italian restaurant also with cooking classes and shop at the Basilica. Popular also for breakfasts or for the terrace.
15 locals recommend
Akademia Italia Budapest - restaurant & breakfast
12 Szent István tér
15 locals recommend
Trendy & huge Italian restaurant also with cooking classes and shop at the Basilica. Popular also for breakfasts or for the terrace.
Trendy "ruin bistro" (fancy place in a ruined builduing next to other ruin bars). Middle-Eastern food, brunch.
306 locals recommend
Mazel Tov
47 Akácfa u.
306 locals recommend
Trendy "ruin bistro" (fancy place in a ruined builduing next to other ruin bars). Middle-Eastern food, brunch.
Perfect Hungarian-Jewish restaurant with classical choice of Hungarian-Jewish fusion. Perfect also for cholent.
65 locals recommend
Macesz Bistro
26 Dob u.
65 locals recommend
Perfect Hungarian-Jewish restaurant with classical choice of Hungarian-Jewish fusion. Perfect also for cholent.
Trendy and romantic bistro with big terrace. Good food, nice wine.
60 locals recommend
Pesti Disznó
19 Nagymező u.
60 locals recommend
Trendy and romantic bistro with big terrace. Good food, nice wine.
The amazing 19th century café & confectionery. After New York Café the second must café.
249 locals recommend
Café Gerbeaud
7-8 Vörösmarty tér
249 locals recommend
The amazing 19th century café & confectionery. After New York Café the second must café.
Stand - the newest Michelin star place of the city. Fine dining with Hungarian touch and tastes
14 locals recommend
Stand Étterem
2 Székely Mihály u.
14 locals recommend
Stand - the newest Michelin star place of the city. Fine dining with Hungarian touch and tastes
a nice place with hungarian and international dishes
23 locals recommend
Barack és Szilva étterem
13 Klauzál u.
23 locals recommend
a nice place with hungarian and international dishes

Drinks & Nightlife

The iconic "ruin bar" of the city. Birthplace of the ruin-bar culture. In the afternoon as social place, nights with crowded parties till 5 am. Popular Farmer Market on Sat, Sun. midday time and early afternoon.
1582 locals recommend
Szimpla Kert
14 Kazinczy u.
1582 locals recommend
The iconic "ruin bar" of the city. Birthplace of the ruin-bar culture. In the afternoon as social place, nights with crowded parties till 5 am. Popular Farmer Market on Sat, Sun. midday time and early afternoon.
The second address for ruin bars. Big complex with huge parties on weekends.
743 locals recommend
Instant Club
51 Akácfa u.
743 locals recommend
The second address for ruin bars. Big complex with huge parties on weekends.
The most popular rooftop terrace with complete view of the city. Amazing at sunset or later with the lights around. Open on afternoons till midnight or 2 am. Weekends also morning yoga or brunch.
308 locals recommend
360 Bar
39 Andrássy út
308 locals recommend
The most popular rooftop terrace with complete view of the city. Amazing at sunset or later with the lights around. Open on afternoons till midnight or 2 am. Weekends also morning yoga or brunch.
Lovely classical bar for cocktails. Listed in the 50 best bars of the world.
71 locals recommend
Boutiq Bar
5 Paulay Ede u.
71 locals recommend
Lovely classical bar for cocktails. Listed in the 50 best bars of the world.
Wine and gourmet rooftop bar at the shopping street Váci utca.
19 locals recommend
St. Andrea Wine & Skybar
19 locals recommend
Wine and gourmet rooftop bar at the shopping street Váci utca.

Sightseeing

St. Spehen's Basilica. Panoramic terrace at the dome, concerts at nibgh 3 times a week.
1262 locals recommend
St. Stephen's Basilica
1 Szent István tér
1262 locals recommend
St. Spehen's Basilica. Panoramic terrace at the dome, concerts at nibgh 3 times a week.
The amazing neo-classicistic Parliament building. 3rd biggest of the world. Guided tours every day in many lenguages from 8 am till 6 pm. You have to be booked.
1905 locals recommend
Hungarian Parliament Building
1-3 Kossuth Lajos tér
1905 locals recommend
The amazing neo-classicistic Parliament building. 3rd biggest of the world. Guided tours every day in many lenguages from 8 am till 6 pm. You have to be booked.
The Castle district, the middle age old city of Buda on the Castle Hill. Romantic walks, many resrtaurants, cafés, sights.
493 locals recommend
Castle Hill
493 locals recommend
The Castle district, the middle age old city of Buda on the Castle Hill. Romantic walks, many resrtaurants, cafés, sights.
The former King Palace.
812 locals recommend
Buda Castle
2 Szent György tér
812 locals recommend
The former King Palace.
Matthias Church. Popular also for Friday night concerts.
421 locals recommend
Matthias Church
2 Szentháromság tér
421 locals recommend
Matthias Church. Popular also for Friday night concerts.
Fisherman's bastion, the extravagant & romantic panormic point just behind the Matthias Church. Popluar for city view and Europe's top No. 2 proposal place.
666 locals recommend
Fishermen's Bastion
Szentháromság tér
666 locals recommend
Fisherman's bastion, the extravagant & romantic panormic point just behind the Matthias Church. Popluar for city view and Europe's top No. 2 proposal place.
The old Funicular since 1896 from the Chain bridge to the Castle.
163 locals recommend
Budapest Castle Hill Funicular station
Clark Ádám tér
163 locals recommend
The old Funicular since 1896 from the Chain bridge to the Castle.
Central Market Hall. Amazing market place as sight or buy fresh stuff, eat a snack.
1242 locals recommend
Central Market Hall
1-3 Vámház krt.
1242 locals recommend
Central Market Hall. Amazing market place as sight or buy fresh stuff, eat a snack.
Opera House. Amazing sights, beautiful performances.
379 locals recommend
Opera M station
379 locals recommend
Opera House. Amazing sights, beautiful performances.
Heroes Square, the end of the Andrassy Avenue and gate of the City Park. 2 big museums on the sides, City Park Lake at the back.
645 locals recommend
Hősök Tere
645 locals recommend
Heroes Square, the end of the Andrassy Avenue and gate of the City Park. 2 big museums on the sides, City Park Lake at the back.
The romantic City Park Castles (Vajdahunyádvár). Museums, panoramic towers.
444 locals recommend
Vajdahunyad Castle
Vajdahunyad sétány
444 locals recommend
The romantic City Park Castles (Vajdahunyádvár). Museums, panoramic towers.
The iconic Great Synagogue (2nd biggest in the world). Easy visits, concerts on some Sun. night.
1302 locals recommend
Dohány Street Synagogue
2 Dohány u.
1302 locals recommend
The iconic Great Synagogue (2nd biggest in the world). Easy visits, concerts on some Sun. night.
Liberty bridge. Amazing iron structure bridge from the 19th century. On summer weekends popular for bridge picnics.
187 locals recommend
Liberty Bridge
187 locals recommend
Liberty bridge. Amazing iron structure bridge from the 19th century. On summer weekends popular for bridge picnics.
Váci utca, the main pedestrian street and shopping street of the city from the Chain Bridge to the Libety Bridge/Central Market Hall.
800 locals recommend
Vaci Street
Váci utca
800 locals recommend
Váci utca, the main pedestrian street and shopping street of the city from the Chain Bridge to the Libety Bridge/Central Market Hall.
The iconic bridge of Budapest
795 locals recommend
Chain Bridge
Széchenyi Lánchíd
795 locals recommend
The iconic bridge of Budapest
Andrássy út, the famous avenue with the Opera House from the Downtown to the Heroes Square. Nice cafés, luxury shops, the oldest undergound of the continent since 1896 under the road.
830 locals recommend
Andrássy út
Andrássy út
830 locals recommend
Andrássy út, the famous avenue with the Opera House from the Downtown to the Heroes Square. Nice cafés, luxury shops, the oldest undergound of the continent since 1896 under the road.
Downtown square, the gate of the shopping street Váci utca only 3 min from the Chain Bridge and river promenade. Typical location of Easter and Downtown Christmas Market. Stop for a coffee and cae at historical Gerbeaud café.
358 locals recommend
Vörösmarty Square
3 Vörösmarty tér
358 locals recommend
Downtown square, the gate of the shopping street Váci utca only 3 min from the Chain Bridge and river promenade. Typical location of Easter and Downtown Christmas Market. Stop for a coffee and cae at historical Gerbeaud café.
Erzsébet tér/Elizabeth Square. The middle of the center wjich devides Inner City, Upper Downtown with the Basilica, the Old Jewish Quarter and from here starts the famous Andrássy Ave. with the Opera House to the Heroes Square. Little park, terraces at summer time, typical hanging out spiot in the grass, Budapest Eye (the Ferris Wheel). Hub for public transport. 3 metro lines, tram, busses to all direction.
135 locals recommend
Erzsébet tér
Erzsébet tér
135 locals recommend
Erzsébet tér/Elizabeth Square. The middle of the center wjich devides Inner City, Upper Downtown with the Basilica, the Old Jewish Quarter and from here starts the famous Andrássy Ave. with the Opera House to the Heroes Square. Little park, terraces at summer time, typical hanging out spiot in the grass, Budapest Eye (the Ferris Wheel). Hub for public transport. 3 metro lines, tram, busses to all direction.

Arts & Culture

The National Gallery in the Castle (the former King Palace).
347 locals recommend
Hungarian National Gallery
2 Szent György tér
347 locals recommend
The National Gallery in the Castle (the former King Palace).
Liszt Music Academy. Amazing city, beautiful concerts.
34 locals recommend
Franz Liszt Academy of Music
8 Liszt Ferenc tér
34 locals recommend
Liszt Music Academy. Amazing city, beautiful concerts.
National Museum
885 locals recommend
Hungarian National Museum
14-16 Múzeum krt.
885 locals recommend
National Museum
MuPa or MüPa, Palace of Arts. Huge modern institution at the DAnube shore with amazing Concert Halls & the contemporary Ludwig Museum.
262 locals recommend
Müpa Budapest
1 Komor Marcell u.
262 locals recommend
MuPa or MüPa, Palace of Arts. Huge modern institution at the DAnube shore with amazing Concert Halls & the contemporary Ludwig Museum.

Entertainment & Activities

The iconic Széchenyi Bath. The most popular and lively thermal bath with its outdoor pools and the famous Spa Party.
154 locals recommend
Széchenyi fürdő
154 locals recommend
The iconic Széchenyi Bath. The most popular and lively thermal bath with its outdoor pools and the famous Spa Party.
The iconic Gellért Bath. The most elegant and stylish art nouveau thermal complex of the city.
897 locals recommend
Gellért Thermal Bath
4 Kelenhegyi út
897 locals recommend
The iconic Gellért Bath. The most elegant and stylish art nouveau thermal complex of the city.
Rudas. The biggest Turkish bath of the city. 600 years old, jacuzzi on the top of the building. Unique place. Weekdays are devided for male and female days. Weekend mixed. On Fri and Sat Night Bathing from 10 pm till 4 am.
96 locals recommend
Rudas Gyógyfürdő
96 locals recommend
Rudas. The biggest Turkish bath of the city. 600 years old, jacuzzi on the top of the building. Unique place. Weekdays are devided for male and female days. Weekend mixed. On Fri and Sat Night Bathing from 10 pm till 4 am.
Palatinus, the popular huge swimming pool, water park on the Margaret Island. Perfect refreshment on hot days. Europe's first wave pool here.
18 locals recommend
Palatinus fürdő
18 locals recommend
Palatinus, the popular huge swimming pool, water park on the Margaret Island. Perfect refreshment on hot days. Europe's first wave pool here.

Parks & Nature

Margaret Island, the green heart of the city. Huge park area for family picnic. Popular from Spring to Autumnn. Musical fountain, open-air stage, swimming pools, mini zoo, botanical garden and 5 km runnerway around.
1643 locals recommend
Margaret Island Mini Zoo
Margitsziget
1643 locals recommend
Margaret Island, the green heart of the city. Huge park area for family picnic. Popular from Spring to Autumnn. Musical fountain, open-air stage, swimming pools, mini zoo, botanical garden and 5 km runnerway around.
City Park behind the iconic Heroes Square. Relax, sights, thermal bath fun.
1163 locals recommend
City Park
1163 locals recommend
City Park behind the iconic Heroes Square. Relax, sights, thermal bath fun.

Essentials

SPAR. Grocery store just 1 min. from the Opera House. Long opening hrs., also on Sun. open.
55 locals recommend
City SPAR
32 Ráday u.
55 locals recommend
SPAR. Grocery store just 1 min. from the Opera House. Long opening hrs., also on Sun. open.
SPAR grocery with long opening hours. Open also on Sundays.
63 locals recommend
City SPAR Budapest
22-24 Károly krt.
63 locals recommend
SPAR grocery with long opening hours. Open also on Sundays.