Nearby Attractions
Our home is centrally located in the heart of Budapest. You can see, within a 5-10 minute walk, the Tower of New York Palace, House of Terror, Hunyadi Market Hall (a huge food market, where you can find every spice imaginable) and Szimpla Sunday Farmers' Market, which is absolutely worth visiting during the day for the fresh produce, and at night it turns into an outdoor bar with DJs, and live bands. The pub district is also a walking distance from the flat, where many restaurants and bars can be found. There is also a lovely small pizzeria next to the entrance of the building, just in case you want to grab a bite on your way out or in.
Szimpla Kert
One of Budapest's first romkocsma – a phrase which translates as ‘ruin pub’ - Szimpla Kert is fairly well known now and something of a must-visit. It's a hugely atmospheric place to drink, evocative and full of character, based as it is in a vast, sprawling old building stuffed with cool little corners in which to sit and all manner of quirky bric-a-brac. This bar appears also in Best Top 100 Bars in the World.
Visit he Farmers Market in Szimpla Kert (every Sunday from 9-14) Vendors offer cheese, sausage, fruits, vegetables, juices, yet small farm produced delicacies in a great variety. On the first floor they offer an all you can eat brunch from the produces of the market.
Address: 1075 Budapest, Kazinczy u. 14
Opening hours: 12:00 PM - 04:00 AM
It's an eleven-minute walk from our apartment.
Hunyadi Square Market
You can enter the market hall through two entrances - where you can find yourself among bustling fruit and vegetable stands, poultry shops, bakeries and smoked goods. As you reach the open-air space of the market, you'll find more vegetables and fruit.
Try the amazing "lángos" with cheese and sour cream. This traditional Hungarian street food, is slowly conquering the whole world, the number of its fans is increasing day by day. Lángos is a fried dough that can be bought in every corner of Hungary, but it’s also available in Hunyadi Square Market.
Address: 1067 Budapest, Hunyadi Tér 4-5.
Opening hours: Monday: 07:00 - 17:00
Tuesday - Friday: 07:00 - 18:00
Saturday: 07:00 - 14:00 Sunday: closed
It's a five-minute walk from our apartment.
New York Café
The famous New York Café, the "Most Beautiful Coffee House in the World” has been a longtime center for Hungarian literature and poetry. The café has lived through many eras, political systems and historical turning points. Still, it has always been reborn, sparkling and occupied by those who longed for its comforts: artists, members of the nobility and commoners alike.
Classic dishes like Beef Goulash, Fishermen Soup, Chicken Leg Paprikash-style, Wiener Schnitzel and Grilled Foie Gras are served along with famous desserts such as Dobos, Sacher and Eszterházy cake.
Address: 1073 Budapest, Erzsébet krt. 9-11.
Opening Hours: Every Day 09.00-24.00
It's a six-minute walk from our apartment.
House of Terror Museum
With regard to communism and fascism, the exhibition contains material on the nation's relationships to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. It also contains exhibits related to Hungarian organisations such as the fascist Arrow Cross Party and the communist ÁVH (which was similar to the Soviet Union KGB secret police). Part of the exhibition takes visitors to the basement, where they can see examples of the cells that the ÁVH used to break the will of their prisoners.
The museum housed in the former headquarters of the secret services. Full price ticket: 2000 HUF
Address: 1062 Budapest, Andrássy út 60.
Open every day except Monday: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
It's a ten-minute walk from our apartment.
Musical Fountain on Margit Sziget
Margaret Island (Margit Sziget) is one of the focal points of the city for tourists. An easy place to reach, it is very pleasant to hide there from the heat of the Summer beneath it's leafy boughs, or to sweep through the piles of golden beech, oak and chestnut leaves in the Autumn.
The Musical Fountain is one of the most well known attractions on the island. It is located at the southern end of the Island.
At showtime the water shoots 10m into the air in time with the music, a mixture of classical and pop music, and the water vapour are illuminated by alternating coloureds lights at night.
Full shows: 6pm and 9pm from March until October.
It can be reached 15-20 min by tramway 4 or 6 from us.