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

being required for the Hotel Ritz. That was when Restaurant Braun, an eating place operating in the building and frequented mainly by grain chandlers for such delicacies as its famous matzoh dumpling soup, its brisket boiled with cabbage and its bean and smoked meat dish, sólet, also became defunct. (At that time, grain was kept in the storage space under the viaduct of the tram line which has been in service on the Danube embankment since 1900. The restaurant was close to the granaries and the exchange, which then operated in the neighbouring building.)

Also within the row of buildings on the Pest bank of the Danube, on the plot numbered II and III next to the Stein House, there was the Budapest Stock and Commodity Exchange. This five-storey building was raised in 1872 to plans made by Ferenc Kolbenheyer and Károly Benkó, both architects commissioned by the Pest Lloyd Company. An ornamental feature of the palace, built in neo-Re- naissance style, was a squat tower at each of the two corThe Lloyd Hoüse hoüsing the Exchange IN A CONTEMPORARY PHOTO BY GYÖRGY KlÖSZ

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