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THE GUIDE
COFFEE HOUSE CHARM
● Budapest has a tradition of grand old coffee houses (kávéház) dating back to the late 1800s and early
1900s. These were places where gentry and bourgeois rubbed shoulders with artists, writers and newspaper
journalists (some of whom wrote their books and articles there). The communists came to see the places
as dens of latent dissent, so most were closed. But luckily, today, there are hundreds again, from cozy
neighborhood hang-outs and comfy modern chains to beautifully restored old-world grand cafés like August,
the Bedő House (pictured), Centrál, Gerbeaud, New York, and the Opera Café. See our Listings on p.24.
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