Background to Historic Budapest Coffee Houses

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.

Historic Budapest Coffee Houses

Travel Back in Time in Historic Budapest Coffee Houses

It became a sort of rituale to finish my walk with a cup of freshly brewed coffee and a slice of yummy cake in one of the many historic Budapest coffee houses.

I sip my coffee, contemplate the fine interior and travel back in time to the beginning of the last century when Budapest was the city of coffee houses.

Although time and wars swept most of them away, several classic Budapest coffee houses have been restored recently that try to revive the dazzling coffee house life characteristic of the turn-of-the-20th-century.

Let me introduce to you the cream of the crop of historic Budapest coffee houses!

http://www.budapest-tourist-guide.com/historic-budapest-coffee-houses.html

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My Future Coffee House

I plan to set up a coffee house / cafe. But my idea is too limited. The criteria of my new coffee house is :
1 - Small - 50x50 sqft
2 - Themes - for kedah football suporters
3 - Drinks - coffee, tea, fruit juice
4 - Meal -