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SHOPPING IN BUDAPEST are looking for handmade utca and on Váci utca (Váci
items in particular, head for Street, see pp96–7). Moró Antik
Shopping in Budapest has changed do their shopping. For local goods, a visit Tekla Folklór. is a tiny shop specializing in
dramatically in recent years. Despite price to one of Budapest’s many markets is 18th-century weapons. The
rises since the return to a free-market recommended. These range in style from Porcelain and Antiques huge Nagyházi Gallery sells
economy, many Hungarian goods still stunning 19th-century food halls, such as Dominated by 18th- and 19th- every thing from jewellery to
furniture. Buda pest’s flea mar-
represent good value for visitors. the Great Market Hall (Nagy Vásárcsarnok), century pieces in the Habs burg kets are good places to hunt
Major shopping streets include elegant, to second-hand markets, such as the style, the Budapest antiques for collectibles.
pedestrianized Váci Street (see pp96–7), huge and lively Ecseri Flea Market, where scene is concentrated in the If looking to buy genuine
good for folk art, and the less fashionable everything from bric-a-brac to furniture Castle District, around Falk Miksa Herend and Zsolnay porcelain,
but better-value Nagykörút, where locals and antiques can be found. there are several outlets in
Budapest. The Hollóházi porce-
lain factory also has a shop. WestEnd City Center, central Europe’s
Opening Hours markets. The threelevel Central largest shopping mall
Most shops in Budapest open Market Hall (Nagy Vásár csar nok) Clothes and Shoes Music
9am–5:30pm or 6pm Mon day on Fővám tér is the largest. Here,
to Friday, and 9am–1pm on more than 180 stalls display Made-to-measure clothes and Hungary’s rich musical traditions
Saturday. Depart ment stores a huge range of foods under shoes, as well as ready-made make for tempting low-priced
open at 10am, while green a gleaming roof of coloured designer clothes, offer some of items to buy. Good-quality CDs
grocers, bakeries and super Zsolnay tiles. The market opens the best deals to be had in the and music DVDs are mostly now
markets are open 7am–8pm. from 6am to 6pm Monday– capital. Clothes can be made up found in bookshops, both new
Indoor markets and depart Friday and 6am to 3pm Saturday. by a local designer in a choice and second-hand, although the
ment stores currently open Other markets to explore are in of fabrics – often for a modest specialist Rózsa völgyi Zene-
on Sunday, although a ban on Fehérvári út and Fény utca. fee. At the top end, Naray műbolt remains, and is great for
Sunday opening is a regular Beginning at 156 Nagykőrösi Tamas Atelier is the show case traditional gypsy and village folk
topic for political debate. Many út in district XIX, tables at the for one of Hungary’s most music, as well as orchestral
small shops selling groceries are Smoked sausages on display at the Central vast outside Ecseri Flea Market celebrated designers. Shoe- works. The Alexandra Book
open 24 hours a day, although Market Hall are covered in Communist makers Vass offer handmade House (and its palatial café) is in
in many districts alcohol can artifacts, secondhand clothes men’s shoes, but they are Párisi Nagyáruház, once a stylish
only be sold until 10pm. WestEnd City Center, with over and bricabrac. Traditional folk costumes, on sale from expensive and can take some department store with a
350 stores, near the centre of the a street vendor time to make. wonderful Art Nouveau façade.
city, is worth a visit. Locals tend
Department Stores and to shop at outoftown malls, Food and Drink DIRECTORY
Shopping Centres where parking is easier, although Hungarian paprika, a wide variety
Since the late 1990s, more than stylish Mammut on Széll Kálmán of spicy salamis and other fine Department Ecseri Flea Market Folk Art Antiques
20 department buildings and malls tér is frequented by more foodstuffs, such as goose liver Stores and Nagykőrösi út 156. Moró Antik
have opened in Budapest. Origin affluent Buda residents. pâté, are widely available in the Shopping Centres Tel (1) 282 95 63. Tekla Folklór Falk Miksa utca 13. Map 2
ally drawing scepticism, depart city’s many lively markets, Váci utca 58. Map 4 D1. D3. Tel (1) 311 08 14.
ment stores, such as Arena Plaza, Markets supermarkets and smaller deli Arena Plaza Fehérvári út Market Tel (1) 486 00 58.
Kerepesi út 9.
have proved popular with the catessens. Visitors wishing to Fehérvári út 20. Nagyházi Gallery
Hungarian populace. Pro viding Markets are an essential part of buy – and sample – Hungary’s Tel (1) 880 70 10. Porcelain Balaton utca 8. Map 2 D3.
a wealth of wellestablished life in Budapest. Perhaps the most regional wines, including the ∑ arenaplaza.hu Fény utca Market Tel (1) 475 60 00.
European and international brands, spectacular are the five cavern golden Tokaji, should head for Mammut I–II Mall Near Széll Kálmán tér. Herend Shops
the shopping centres normally ous market halls around the city. Borház in Pest’s Jókai tér or Lövőház utca 2–6 & Széll József Nádor tér 11. Clothes and Shoes
sell men’s and women’s clothing, All were built in the late 19th cen La Boutique des Vins in József Kálmán tér. Map 1 A3. Map 1 A4. Map 2 D5. Tel (1) 317 26 22. Naray Tamas Atelier
accessories and perfumes. tury and several are still used as Attila utca, which stock a superb Tel (1) 345 80 20. Hajós utca 17. Map 2 E4.
selection from all over the coun ∑ mammut.hu Food and Drink Szentháromság utca 5. Tel (1) 266 24 73.
try. Hungary’s apricot and plum Map 1 B5.
liqueurs and brandy (pálinka) WestEnd City Center Borház Tel (1) 225 10 50/51. Vass Shoes
can be purchased at House of Váci út 1–3. Jókai tér 7. Andrássy út 16. Map 2 E4. Haris köz 2. Map 4 D1.
Hungarian Pálinka in Rákóczi út. Map 2 E3. Map 2 E4. Tel (1) 374 00 06. Tel (1) 318 23 75.
Tel (1) 238 77 77.
Tel (1) 353 48 49. Music
Folk Art Markets La Boutique des Vins Hollóházi Shop
Hungarian folk art such as Budapest Flea Market József Attila utca 12. Rákóczi út 31. Alexandra Book House
Párisi Nagyáruház ,
Map 4 E1.
embroidered peasant blouses Zichy Mihály utca 14.
and wooden carvings are still Tel (20) 933 39 79. Map 2 D5. Tel (1) 317 59 19. Tel (1) 413 14 63. Andrássy út 39. Map 2 E4.
Tel (1) 484 80 00.
produced in many rural areas House of Hungarian Zsolnay Shop
and sold in the capital. These Central Market Hall Pálinka Rózsavölgyi
can be found at flea markets Vámház körút 1–3 Kecskeméti utca 14. Zenemübolt
around Moszkva tér and (Fővám tér). Map 4 E2. Rákóczi út 17. Map 4 Map 4 E2. Szervita tér 5. Map 4 D1.
Parliament or the top floor of Tel (1) 366 33 00. E1/2. Tel (1) 338 42 19. Tel (1) 318 26 43. Tel (1) 318 35 00.
A small wine merchant, selling wines from Hungary’s regions the Central Market Hall. If you
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