Budapest
Centrál Kávéház
Centrál Kávéház
Our pick#03

Centrál Kávéház

A literary institution where one coffee still buys you an afternoon.

LiteraryLinger
Curator note

This was where the writers came, and it still feels like it. Less spectacle than its famous cousins, more the kind of place where one coffee buys you an afternoon with a book and nobody hurries you out.

Take a marble-topped table by the window, order something and then forget about it, and stay. It's the coffee house we'd actually choose.

Insider tip

The upstairs gallery is calmer than the main floor and just as handsome.

Practical
Hours
Daily, 08:00–23:00
Price
$$$$
Neighborhood
Belváros
Address
Károlyi utca 9, 1053 Budapest