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

Teleki téri 886 os Büfé Snack-Bar mo. 886

Vili. Teleki tér 6

For the moment, a nameless, huge, brown glass, Western pub. I would declare it a museum, and customers would sit singly in the corners like the gilded Buddhas in the Museum of Far-Eastern Art.

The Teleki tér of Bereményi’s film Eldorado and Mán- dy’s novels is a thing of the past, there is just this pub yawning, forsaken and lonely, on the corner of the street.

Koszorú Büfé Wreath Snack-Bar

Vili. Koszorú utca 18

To my repeated questions the barmaid repeatedly replies that the place has no name. 1 persist in calling it the Koszorú Snack-bar, after the street it stands in, but opinions are divided. Pastry-faced drunks argue that this pub is in effect part of the Csopaki of Baross utca, so should be called the Little Csopaki.

The barmaid protests: “It's not Little Csopaki, it’s not Csopaki, it hasn’t got a name!” In the meanwhile I’ve chosen a new name for the place in my mind, for a great yellow letter É has detached itself and fallen unnoticed to the ground, so the window-display now reads: BC1F. (Belch, to you.)

The sound a baby makes as its mother pats its back saying “Bring up that nasty wind then, darling!”

891 -es T öMő Kocsma 891 Crammer Püb

VIII. Leonardo utca 43

In this corner pub almost everyone is called Rudi, the new waiter, the old waiter, and the former boss of the long-since demolished Józsefvárosi Halászkert (Fish Restaurant of Józsefváros), who is now a customer at the Crammer. Everyone is always telling stories about the old pubs of the Vlllth district, about the German balls. It is a good pub and it opens at dawn.

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