BUDAPEST- Travel Guide à la Teeny PART II

In the second instalment of the Budapest Travel Guide à la Teeny I will share with you some bars and restaurants that we really liked.

Food is pretty good and very cheap. Paprika is the ‘Hungarian’ spice so you will see a lot of that and Goulash soup is a good and well known Hungarian dish. Some restaurants that we liked were all in one neighbourhood in the 7th district of Pest.

“M” is at 48 Kertesz utca. Everything inside is covered with brown packaging paper and the menu changes every week. The food is good and not expensive and you can try Unicum which is a strong Hungarian drink- it sort of tastes like fermented flowers. Definitely worth a shot! (pun intended)

Dupla is just next door also at 48 Kertesz utca. We had each had a beer, a main course and a side dish and the total for the two of us was 12 euros. WHOA! Both of these restaurants are small, chill, and funky. I recommend them both!

There are a whole bunch of restaurants and bars along the Liszt ter (Liszt square). The square is only for pedestrians and they all have terraces with heat lamps and they offer you polar fleece blankets to snuggle up with at your table. Very cool! The square and the other two restaurants are all located near metro Oktogon on metro line 1.

A GREAT BAR: Szimpla Kert. This is a really cool and I am pretty sure clandestine bar. I don’t want to talk it up too much but it is one of the coolest bar’s I’ve ever been to.

You have to go in through a little passage that has plastic flaps hanging over it and from the outside it just looks like an apartment building. There is a yellow sign outside though and you can just go on in. It is located on Kazinczy utca between Wesselenyi utca and Dohany utca.

Szimpla Kert is also in the 7th district and not so far from the restaurants above and near metro Astoria on line 2. Szimpla Kert is really chill, very big, kind of falling apart, you sort of feel like you are in some kind of elaborate squat, there are arm chairs and sofas which definitely seem to have been rescued from the street, the music is good but not so loud that you can’t easily chat, drinks are cheap and good. What more could you ask for???