Fine Dining:
Costes: the only Michelin star restaurant in town, simply amazing food, matching the highest international standards, unrivalled professional service, tasteful decor, light music, silver tableware
Mokka: great ambiance, pleasant chillout music, creative and highly talented chef, large variety of exotic and European fusion gourmet dishes.
Spoon: best location in town, on a boat over the Danube, impressive design, great decor and spacious rooms, good food and service, fantastic view and trendy cosmopolitan crowd.
Déryné: wonderful, renewed cafe and restaurant on the Buda side. The biggest hit at the moment, so reservation well in advance will be needed. Perfect for a great meal with great style and to watch people.
Mini: next door to Déryné, on the Buda side. Local top spot with well-off business people. Great food bistro style.
Baraka: probably the best food in town, expatriate owned and friendly, world class stylish design, impeccable service. Don't expect a big crowd though, more intimate.
Manna Lounge: open air during Summer, very stylish design, live jazz occassionally, great wine list.
Cyrano: extremly stylish ambiance, high class crowd, gourmet and fusion food.
Onyx: fantastic decor, fantastic gourmet food, near the Kempinski hotel.
Symbol: a brand new, innovative establishment housing an Italian fusion restaurant, a stylish lounge cafe, and other interesting venues. A bit off the centre.
Lunch in laid-back settings:
Cafe Pierrot: fantastic little restaurant in the Buda castle, great jazz pianist, light salads and grills, easy going staff.
Goa: exotic Asian food, beautifully presented, stylish, laid-back ambiance, open-air terrace to Andrassy boulevard during the Summer.
Arcade: a definite hot spot favoured by local rich business people, best restaurant on the Buda side, excellent wine list, impeccable gourmet dishes.
Cafe Kör: locals' tip and favoured by expatriates, young and friendly waiters, reasonable prices.
Café / Coffee Shop / Bistro:
Café Gerlóczy: won the best coffee shop in 2007 award, wonderfully laid-back, friendly staff, favoured with expat regulars, fantastic food
Café Centrál: a coffee shop with the longest traditions, a bohemian past, and elegant present
Café New York: located on the ground floor of Boscolo New York Palace luxury hotel, splendid, super exclusive decor, long history
More great places without details:
Pomo D'oro
Lou Lou
Cafe 57
Donatella's Kitchen
Leroy Cafe
Trattoria Toscana
Fausto
Articsóka
Traditional Hungarian food:
Gundel
Kisbuda Gyöngye
Kéhli
Old Sipos
BockBistro
Dio
Remíz
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Pre-party drinks:
Negro: trendy, New York style, laid-back wine bar next to St. Stephen's basilica
Mini: small restaurant/bar on the Buda side, the newest hit and hot spot with local well-off business people and media professionals. A real insiders' tip. Professional DJ, very upmarket and stylish ambiance.
Menza: extremly popular by young trendy professionals in design and media jobs, retro style.
Liszt Ferenc Square: huge open-air restaurant area off Andrassy boulevard with 15 restaurants/bars, extremly trendy, always very crowded, especially in the evening hours.
Best Summer Open-Air Venues:
Rudas Romkert
Ötkert
Creol
Bed Beach
Friday/Saturday night hotspots:
Leroy MOM Park: currently the most stylish, hip venue for trendy young professionals and well-off locals, large bar area and small dance floor, a place to see and to be seen, gorgeous, elegant ladies and men in Armani, lot's of English speakers
Mini: small restaurant/bar on the Buda side, the newest hit and hot spot with local well-off business people and media professionals. A real insiders' tip. Professional DJ, upmarket and stylish ambiance.
Creol: small New York style bar next to the Four Seasons, highly popular with upmarket, well dressed nouveau rich crowd and business people, typical pick-up place for expatriates, with nicely presented, pleasant, more mature ladies, and funky music.
White Angel: large, new, trendy electronic, house and progressive venue, flooded with younger girls.
Club Play: large, new, trendy electronic, house and progressive venue, packed with girls and locals.
Jam Pub: Mammut shopping mall basement, busy dance floor, retro music, mixed, older crowd, plently of tourists.
Morrisson's 2: a low key, interesting venue, more for the youngsters, with a groovy, arty and underground crowd. Lot's of English speakers. Dance floors on three levels and heated courtyard.
Afterparty:
Coronita
Piaf
Alternative, undeground:
A38
Green Pardon
Szóda
Gödör Klub
Szimpla Kert
Corvin Tető
Jazz:
Budapest Jazz Club
Take5
Classical Music:
The Opera House
Palace of Arts
Classical and jazz concert tickets
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