Six of the Coolest Places for Coffee & Cake in Budapest

Budapest is rightly renowned for its historic coffeehouses: grand and elegant in style, cakes and conversation. Such sanctuaries were deeply embedded in Hungary’s cultural psyche, frequented by writers, poets, artists and politicians who observed the world, exchanged ideas and plotted rebellious acts. Their golden era may have been in the 19th century, but nostalgia still tastes delicious and lingering with a newspaper or a notebook remains a treat to this day.