Sunday, May 31, 2009

Ruszwurm - the Oldest Coffee House in Budapest

Szentháromság utca 7., Castle District
Open:
10.00-20.00, Closed on Wednesdays

Ruszwurm

This Baroque coffee house operates since 1824. The small but cozy place welcomes guests with almost intact interior, delicious cakes and coffee.

The pastries were so tasty that Elizabeth, Austrian Empressor and Queen of Hungary (1837-1898) sent couriers to get cakes for her breakfast.



The owner of the coffee house was imprisoned after the fall of the 1848/49 Revolution and War of Independence.

One of his cellmates, Rudolf Linzer inspired him to make the Linzer biscuit (two slices of shortcake glued together with apricot jam).

In summer Ruszwurm is usually crowded with tourists. In late autumn or in winter you have better chances to get a table in the snug inner room.

Angelika
Batthyány tér 7., I. district, M2 metro, Batthány tér station
Open: 10.00-22.00 daily

Angelika café Budapest

This fine coffee house opened on the groundfloor of Church of St. Ann's vicarage in the first half of 1970s.

Fine, though slightly posh interior, with vaulted ceiling, marble floor and neo-Baroque furnishings, excellent coffee, cakes and friendly staff makes Angelika one of the loveliest cafés in Buda. The majority of the regulars consists of the middle-class residents of Buda.

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