Centrál Kávéház — iAto 01 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Ready-made walk · Budapest

Grand Cafés and Market Halls

5 stops · ~1 hr 15 min · 4.8 km

Food & Drink

Taste Budapest’s coffeehouse and market-hall traditions, starting at the Great Market Hall, the city’s largest and oldest indoor market, completed in 1897. Continue to the literary Centrál Kávéház and the historic Gerbeaud confectionery on Vörösmarty tér, then visit the opulent New York Palace on the Grand Boulevard and finish among the stalls of the covered Rákóczi tér market hall.

The stops, in walking order

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Stop 1: Centrál Kávéház
~3 min here
Centrál Grand Cafe & Bar 1887 is a historic café, and its story is inseparable from Budapest’s literary life.
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Stop 2: Gerbeaud-ház
~3 min here
Gerbeaud-ház is the grand building at Vörösmarty tér 7–9, home to the historic Gerbeaud confectionery and coffeehouse.
iFred Romero from Paris, France (CC BY 2.0)
Stop 3: Központi Vásárcsarnok
~3 min here
The Great Market Hall is Budapest’s largest and oldest indoor market, housed in a vast historic building.
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Stop 4: Rákóczi téri Vásárcsarnok
~3 min here
Rákóczi téri Vásárcsarnok is a covered food market, designed by István Rozinay and Pál Klunzinger.
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Stop 5: New York-palota
~3 min here
New York Palace is the grand palace before you, an eclectic building created in 1894 as the headquarters of an insurance company, with rental homes included in its design.