Centrál Café - Global Citizenship Summer School (sitios de interés)
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Amongst the coffeehouses of the turn of the 19th/20th century the Centrál Café was amongst the grandest, attracting the attention of editors, journalists, writers and all other sorts of artists and intellectuals. It functioned as a focal point of urban social life and served as a regular meeting point for the leaders particular intellectual groupings, such as the editorial team of the magazine Nyugat. Their usual spot was on the gallery, where today the restaurant section of the café is located.
The café saw its highpoint during the interwar period, with famous guests as, for example, the writers Frigyes Karinthy and Lőrinc Szabó. However, the independent thinking enforced by places::text like the Centrál dissatisfied the communist regime and the café was shut down.
Right after the fall of the communist regime in 1989 the Centrál Café was the first of the grand classical coffeehouses in Budapest to reopen and its success suggests that it managed to recapture the flair that was particular to it when it was first opened. Today the café describes itself as a reference point between tradition and modernity, ‘relying on the roots of Hungarian gastronomy and meeting the expectations of the 21st century’, as it reads on its website.
The café saw its highpoint during the interwar period, with famous guests as, for example, the writers Frigyes Karinthy and Lőrinc Szabó. However, the independent thinking enforced by places::text like the Centrál dissatisfied the communist regime and the café was shut down.
Right after the fall of the communist regime in 1989 the Centrál Café was the first of the grand classical coffeehouses in Budapest to reopen and its success suggests that it managed to recapture the flair that was particular to it when it was first opened. Today the café describes itself as a reference point between tradition and modernity, ‘relying on the roots of Hungarian gastronomy and meeting the expectations of the 21st century’, as it reads on its website.