Juhász Gyula - Szántó András: Hotels - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

Hotel to Archdüke Stephen

with likenesses of characters from the writer’s novels and there was a portrait of Mikszáth himself hanging there, too... For almost a decade, this was the gathering place of a highly cohesive liberal circle, which dined here daily... Nearly every single notability of the country’s public life turned up here... Kálmán Tisza János Kemény, Mór Jókai..., had dinner here on many an occasion... The István rooms soon grew into a veritable power centre, so much so that it could not be ignored when delegations were commissioned or public and committee appointments were made... The István rooms assumed the shape of an exclusive coterie.”

However, it was not only its patrons, but also its cuisine which earned the hotel its fame. Whatever special foodstuff was come upon in the country would be first sent to the István. As rumour had it, even the Lord Lieutenant of County Nyíregyháza sent his hunting quarry of a moufflon here, to be served in the restaurant.

After the hotel was closed in 1904, its café still continued in operation. Later the building was degraded into an office block.

The Hotel CONTINENTAL

No. 22 Nádor utca, district V With the addition of a floor to an old three-storey building in 1864 the Hotel Frohner was opened. With its 100 rooms and hot and cold baths, the establishment catered mainly for guests arriving from the nearby Pest Railway Station, the predecessor of the Western Station. The hotel had one hundred rooms featuring baths with hot and cold running water. Its fine cuisine was greatly appreciated by báró Zsigmond Kemény, a writer with a

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