Coffee culture was thriving in Budapest from around the early 1910's until the beginning of the 1930's. In this era the around 500 cafés were scattered around the city.
They served as common meeting places of talented writers, poets and artists. Some of them spent most of the day in their favourite place, musing or writing at their regular tables.
Ink and paper were free for them and they could eat the "writer's menu" (bread, cheese and cold cuts) at discount price.
Besides artists ordinary people also popped in for a cup a coffee on Sunday afternoons.
Historic Budapest Coffee Houses were a home to vivid cultural life. If you'd wanted to know the latest news and gossip in town you would just have to sit in one of these grand cafés.
Most of the classic Budapest coffee houses were destroyed during the world wars. The communist regime did not do good to them either. The leaders of the communist party considered the cafés as a center of underground organizations, so to put an end to any conspiracy they closed the most popular historic coffee houses in Budapest.
In recent years many once-grand cafés have been restored to their original splendour and try to revive coffee culture.
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