Bars and Pubs in Budapest
Ruin bars in the old Jewish Quarter, rooftops looking at the Basilica, wine bars pouring Tokaji by the glass, and pubs where locals actually drink. Pick the kind of night you want and see where it is.
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360 Bar
360 Bar Budapest: rooftop cocktails from 4,620 HUF ($15) with a 360-degree view, a discreet street-level entrance, and a 15% service charge on the bill.
A38 Hajó
The A38 Ship isn’t just a music venue; it’s an experience, an institution, a Budapest icon. Imagine this: a decommissioned Ukrainian stone-carrier ship, transformed into what Lonely Planet once dubbed the “Best Bar in the World”.
Akvárium Klub
Akvárium Klub occupies the unlikely spot of coolest underground space in the most touristy square in Budapest.
Black Swan Lab
Behind an unmarked door on Klauzál utca, Black Swan Lab opens into a gold-and-black Art Deco room that leans hard into the 1920s and 30s.
Bortodoor
Bortodoor on Zichy Jenő utca is not a natural wine specialist.
Boutiq'Bar
If one bar anchors the high end of Budapest drinking, it's Boutiq'Bar in Terézváros. It has been pouring for more than 15 years, it was No.
Budapest Garden
Budapest Garden in Óbuda turns into a "Fan Village" for major tournaments, with giant screens, street food and activities on the Danube bank.
Budapest Jazz Club
If you ask any local jazz aficionado, they’ll point you towards the Budapest Jazz Club (BJC). And for good reason.
Cabrio
Cabrio is a natural wine bar with a Michelin Guide listing and a kitchen that's doing more than soaking up alcohol: small plates like burnt celeriac carpaccio and salmon trout tartare sit next to a pan-European list that leans…
Champs Sport Pub
If Jack Doyle's is a specialist, Champs Sport Pub is the supermarket. On Dohány utca in the Jewish Quarter, their pitch is simple: if a game is on anywhere in the world, it's on one of their screens.
Champs Sziget
Covered in our guide: Budapest's Sports Bars: Which One Actually Fits Your Match Night
Cortile Sky Bar
The rooftop of the Cortile Budapest Hotel in District VI, with an infinity pool next to the bar.
CoXx
CoXx (Dohány utca 38) is Hungary’s largest cruising bar: 400 square meters over two levels, three bars, themed nights every Saturday, and a Friday fixture that runs weekly.
Csendes Létterem
A former literary café turned surreal sitting room, walls stacked with mismatched knick-knacks, old toys, and local art.
Disznókő
A wine estate in Mezőzombor whose guided tours take in a vineyard walk, the winery and the underground cellar, and end with a tasting in its Yellow Wine House (Sárga Borház).
DiVino Borbár
DiVino is the most tourist-facing name on this list, and it's also the one I checked most thoroughly, because it's the one most likely to have a stale price quoted about it somewhere.
Doblo Wine Bar
Doblo has been the Jewish Quarter's wine bar for long enough that it doesn't need to try hard about it.
Doboz
Check the day before you plan around it. Doboz now runs Wednesday to Saturday, 18:00 to 06:00, so Sunday, Monday and Tuesday are out.
Drop Shop Wine Bar
Drop Shop sits a few minutes from Parliament, which normally is the kiss of death for anywhere trying to serve a serious glass of wine at a fair price, and it mostly avoids the trap: over 60 wines by the glass, a strong Italian…
Dürer Kert
Dürer Kert holds a special, almost legendary status for many Budapest locals, myself included.
Élesztő
Covered in our guide: 3 Days in Budapest: A Local's Itinerary for Both Sides of the Danube (2026)
Élesztőház
A craft beer house on Tűzoltó utca in District IX that works like a small campus. The heart is Élesztő, the beer bar, with 30 taps across two bars.
Faust Wine Cellar
It is a small cellar under a genuinely medieval cloister, and the arrival is the best part: you cross the Dominican Cloister inside the Hilton Budapest at Hess András tér 1-3, then go down 54 steps.
Fekete Holló
Fekete Holló - traditional Hungarian on Országház utca, red-checkered-tablecloth energy, open daily.
Fekete Kutya
Fekete Kutya, Black Dog, sits on Dob utca in the middle of the Jewish Quarter's party-district buzz and still feels like a neighborhood spot.
feNNen Skybar
Buda's first serious rooftop: a heated glass house that works in winter, cocktails at 4,990-5,790 HUF, and service weaker than the view.
For Sale Pub
Every square inch of the walls and ceiling here is covered in notes, drawings and business cards left by guests over the years, and the floor is real straw.
Gaby’s
Katona József utca 41 (District XIII, near Margaret Bridge)
GastroCellar
The tourism agency's own article sends visitors to "a pálinka museum on Király utca" to sample the full range, and this is it.
Gólya Presszó
Gólya
Gólya, meaning stork, is a cooperative in the full sense: the people who work there own the business together and make its decisions together, with no boss.
Gravity Brewing
A brewery tour in the middle of the city, and a taproom that cares about stouts as much as hops.
Grinzingi
Grinzingi Borozó
A family-run wine tavern on Veres Pálné utca, redone in the 1980s in the style of the wine taverns of Vienna's Grinzing, with wooden furniture and wine from the tap.
Habroló Café & Bar
Habroló 2
The weekly program, as the bar publishes it: Monday is the Dreher Beerlympics, Thursday is the pub quiz and karaoke night, Sunday is live piano, and a drag show turns up on occasional Saturdays.
Haraszthy Pincészet
Haraszthy is the big-table option. Each package is a cellar tour from the processing hall through the Knights' Hall down to the cellar, with house cold cuts, fresh bread and mineral water, and the tasting runs in Hungarian and…
High Note SkyBar
High Note SkyBar gives Budapest's only true front-row Basilica view from a rooftop. July 2026 drink prices, hours, and the slot worth booking. (2026)
Hímesudvar
A cellar five minutes' walk from the main square, with a wine bar and a garden, where you can simply walk in for a glass.
Holdvölgy
A modern estate on top of a 500-year-old cellar system 1.8 km long, on three levels, which you explore with a map in its "treasure hunt" tastings.
Hopaholic
Hopaholic is a small craft beer bar on Akácfa utca in the Jewish Quarter, with a carefully chosen tap and bottle list for drinkers who already know their styles.
Horizont Brewing
Horizont is the Hungarian craft brewery with the international record.
Hotsy Totsy
Hotsy-Totsy Bar & Barber
Down a staircase on Síp utca in District VII, Hotsy Totsy is the real speakeasy thing: velvet, low light, and a good measure of Prohibition-era style.
Ibolya Espresso
Ferenciek tere 5, District V. Ibolya posts its news on Facebook; check its hours there before you go.
Instant-Fogas
Instant-Fogas Komplexum
Instant-Fogas entry rules, opening hours, which rooms run which night, drink prices from the November 2025 list, the door policy, age limits and when there is a queue.
ISSEI Skybar
Japanese-Peruvian Nikkei on the Radisson Collection roof, with St Stephen’s Basilica close enough to touch. Our 2025 dinner, and what ISSEI costs today.
Jedermann Café
Jedermann
If you’re craving that unpretentious, soulful neighborhood jazz joint, look no further than Jedermann Café. This place is pure bohemian charm, a spot where you instantly feel at home.
Kadarka Wine Bar
Kadarka óstoló bár
Kadarka is named after the grape, not the other way round, and it takes the naming seriously: upwards of 150 Hungarian wines by the glass, pulled from roughly 22 of the country's wine regions, with sample pours alongside full…
Kakas Presszó
A no-frills presszó on Károly körút, a few minutes from Deák Ferenc tér, with sport on the screens and sandwiches at the counter.
KEG Sörművház
A 320-square-meter cellar pub on Orlay utca in District XI, opened by friends from high school.
Kertem
In warmer months, Kertem is a relaxed open-air bar under the trees in the park itself.
Kisüzem
Kisüzem, on Kis Diófa utca in District VII, runs a coffeehouse by day and something closer to a bar by night, without ever fully switching costumes.
Kobuci Kert
An open-air garden bar in the courtyard of the Zichy Mansion at Fő tér 1 in Óbuda (District III), with concerts of folk, world music, jazz and Hungarian bands.
KPUB
A Korean pub on Dohány utca, the street of the Great Synagogue. In its own words: "Korean fried chicken, BBQ, soju, or just a fun night with friends".
Leo Rooftop
Leo Rooftop Bar
Leo Rooftop faces the Chain Bridge head-on from Hotel Clark's 8th floor. Cocktails from 6,750 HUF, open daily to midnight, tables run two hours.
Liz & Chain
Liz & Chain Rooftop Bar
Liz & Chain looks straight down the Chain Bridge from the Pest side. Cocktail prices, the best table, hours, and whether the view earns it.
Magnum Sauna
Magnum Sauna (Csepreghy utca 2, District VIII) is the city’s long-established gay sauna, running since 2001: two levels, several saunas, a plunge pool, steam room and jacuzzi.
Marlou Wine Bar
Marlou is part wine shop, part bar, part small bistro, tucked behind the Opera House, and it's the one venue here where you should ask what's open by the glass that night rather than assuming a full bar list.
Marxim
A pub on Kisrókus utca, a few minutes' walk from Széll Kálmán tér, that has built its whole look around the communist era, starting with the name.
Mátra Borozó
A small wine tavern on Corvin tér, below Buda Castle, in business since 1948, where the wine is still served from containers set into a metal counter in the middle of the room.
MemoRise Skybar
Bástya utca 33, Budapest. The season and opening hours vary, so check the hotel's MemoRise page before you go.
MONYO Tap House
MONYO Brewing has made craft beer for more than ten years. Its flagship is Flying Rabbit, a 6.5% IPA, also brewed in a gluten-free version, alongside the fruity Hero beers (Cherry Hero, Mango Hero) and Invisible Bikini Stout.
Morrison's 2
The thing to check before you go: this is the venue on the list that runs ticket-only nights.
Nyakas Pince
Nyakas Pince is in Tök, a small village at the foot of Nyakas Hill in the Etyek-Buda wine district, about 40 minutes from Budapest.
Opus Jazz Club
For a more contemporary, polished jazz experience, Opus Jazz Club is your destination.
Ötkert
A converted 19th-century building minutes from St. Stephen's Basilica, with two dance floors, a retractable roof over the courtyard, and a HipHop Bistro room running trap and Afrobeats against the main hall's club anthems.
Palack Wine Bar
Palack is the only wine bar on this list that isn't on the Pest side, and it earns the trip: a terrace on Szent Gellért tér with Liberty Bridge and Gellért Hill in view, an 80-to-100-label list built around smaller Hungarian…
Patricius Borház
Patricius program, prices, hours and booking: Patricius, email to Hungary Unlocked, 20 October 2026. Address, car access and phone numbers: patricius.hu, read 20 October 2026.
Peaches and Cream
The glossiest room on this list, on the Nagymező utca theater strip, with a younger international crowd and a music policy built around R&B, hip-hop and chart hits.
Pebbles Natural Wine & Kitchen
Pebbles calls itself a natural wine bar and kitchen, and its list carries something almost no other Budapest list does: Turkish natural wine, including a Turkish pét-nat, next to Hungarian bottles such as a Tokaji from…
Pótkulcs
A bar in a former workshop on Csengery utca, reached through a leafy courtyard, with art on the walls and regular live music.
Red Ruin
Red Ruin hours: its Google Maps listing, checked 21 October 2026; Facebook: facebook.com/RedRuin.
Rókusfalvy Birtok
Etyek is the wine village on Budapest's doorstep, a 44-minute bus ride from Kelenföld. Rókusfalvy runs an English tasting on Saturdays at 14:00 for 7,500 HUF a head, the last direct bus back leaves at 21:53, and three …
Rumpus Tiki Bar
Rumpus Tiki Bar & Kitchen, Király u. 19 in District VII, a few minutes from Deák Ferenc tér. A tiki cocktail bar that now runs a themed brunch every day, 9:00 to 16:00, before the bar side takes over in the evening.
Sauska Pezsgőpince
Email Sauska. That is the whole answer, and it is worth stating as flatly as that, because everything else in Budafok is built for groups.
Selva Skybar
Selva Skybar sits on the 12th floor of Infinity Budapest Hotel, with a real Aston Martin on the terrace, Danube views and themed Show Dinners. What the rooftop is like, pool access and how to check it is open.
SOLID
A rooftop brunch restaurant on the 7th floor of Hotel Rum, the sister of SALT, the Michelin-starred restaurant downstairs.
St. Andrea Wine & Skybar
An Eger winery's rooftop over Vörösmarty Square: most signature cocktails at 5,400 Ft, open daily 15:00 to midnight, and a terrace table you should book.
Stifler Bar
Stifler is a small empire of venues across Budapest, each built for a different night. This entry covers the original: Stifler Bar on Erzsébet körút 19, the purest sports-watching branch of the family.
Szimpla Kert
Szimpla Kert: free entry, what the chalkboards charge for beer and cocktails, the Sunday farmers market, the door rules and the queue.
The Duchess
The Duchess at Matild Palace has Budapest's most theatrical rooftop entrance and the skyline to match. Prices, hours, dress code and the slot to book. (2026)
Tóth Kocsma
A cellar kocsma on Falk Miksa utca, near the Parliament end of the Grand Boulevard, with wooden furniture and vaulted ceilings.
Vino Piano
This one's a curveball on purpose. Élesztőház is the craft beer ruin pub that turned a former glassworks factory into Budapest's first serious craft beer complex, and tucked into that same courtyard is Vino Piano, a genuine wine…
Warmup Bar
Warmup Bar is Budapest's small no-menu cocktail bar where the bartender builds your drink around what you like. How it works, hours, booking, and when to go.
White Raven Skybar
White Raven Skybar delivers Budapest's best rooftop views for 6,900 HUF cocktails. What's worth it, what to skip, and exactly how to book it (2026).
Why Not Café & Bar
Why Not Café and Bar
around 800 HUF, and worth ordering on its own merits.