Kocsis Irma: A tour of our Locals. (A very quick one) - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1993)

That would mean Béla Dombóvári’s Villa Megra would have to go as well. The Villa Negra is a growth that defies description, let me just remark that a river barge is attached to it, with every hold painted a different colour, and each has been fitted up and furnished as a room. You can peep into them from above: the dream of the red room, the dream of the yellow room. I hear someone’s put up a sign saying something like:

HANDS OFF THE DYKE!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Aranyhal is the very best place for a rendezvous.

Kassák utcai Borozó Wine-Cellar, Kassák utca

XIII. (Kassák utca) Botond utca 11

In actual fact, the cellar is called Badacsonytomaji Borozó. Several levels house a wine-cellar, restaurant, alehouse, tea-room, take your pick. The pipe-shaped wine- cellar to the left as you descended the stairs used to be the most intimate cellar-pub in the entire city. Semidarkness, sometimes stuffed cabbage, music, discreet waiters (recent changes have resulted in a shuffling of adjectives).

There are two other places in this street, a tiny pub of not more than three square metres on the Lehel market end, called Kaskantyú Borozó, and the üstökös, diagonally facing the above-mentioned wine-cellar.

Visegrádi Cukrászda Visegrádi T ea-Shop

XIII. Róbert Károly körút 10

1 first visited this espresso bar on Róbert Károly körút in the middle of the morning several years ago. 1 had a very pleasant time there and promptly forgot the exact address. I tried to find it again some time later, prowling frantically among the flyovers of the surrounding prairie, in the meanwhile transformed out of all recognition. Trucks dashed past, Turkish drivers stared down at me from above, 1 was lost. It took me years to find it again. Its stiched red leatherette-covered counter can only be compared to that of the faculty of arts snack-bar. That

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