Café Walking Tour - three waves of coffee culture in Budapest

Café Walking Tour - three waves of coffee culture in Budapest

This unique Café Walking Tour shows the transformation of Budapest and its society through the world of coffee houses. On the one hand the tour is a journey back in time to get to know the heroic age, when Budapest became a flourishing and vivid capital city of Europe and on the other hand explains how this city full of life, ambition and excitement survived the storms of history in the 20th century. On this tour participants visit old, notorious and brand-new cafés. In addition to the literary cafes and the neon-light "presszós" of communism,  the new wave coffee houses will also be introduced.

The tour starts close to Oktogon, in the heart of Budapest. The first half of the walk introduces the cultural life of the once great cafés (Abbázia, Savoy, Japán, Művész, Dechsler and many more) along the Great Boulevard and Andrássy Avenue. Then it continues in the district of Elisabeth City, as passengers passing through the passages of the Jewish District can get to know the latest Pest trends in new wave Specialty Cafés... they are simply world class! The turn of the century and the two world wars are recalled at Hotel Astoria and the tour terminates at an authentic café evoking the coffee house culture of the communist regime. The tour ends at Ferenciek tere.