Porhászka László: The Danube Promenade - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1998)

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Dubarry, which opened in the mid-eighties as a café but which has operated as a restaurant since 1989. It has a terrace on the promenade from spring to autumn. This pleasant little restaurant has its own kitchen. Guests can sample Hungarian cuisine at night with live piano music playing in the background. A curiosity of the Dubarry is that the original lamp holders once decorating the building on the outside wall have been restored to their original condition. Shimmering in the friendly light glowing in them is the memory of the old promenade.

For years the hydrological archives and library were based at the corner of Apáczai Csere János utca, where the Pilsen Beer Hall had once stood. When they moved out in the late 1980s the place was returned to caterers. Today it is the Italian cuisine of the Restaurant Marco Polo that adds another flavour to the gastronomic attractions of the promenade.

The history of the Danube promenade is not yet over. As a final stage in its reconstruction, the Fountain of the Little Gopher Hunters is to be returned to its original place in the centre of Vigadó tér in 1998. Károly Senyei’s work waited for things to look up in Dagály Spa for decades

Little Gopher Hunters by Károly Senyei,

AS YET IN THE COURTYARD OF AN OFFICE BUILDING

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