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Clubs
The line between garden clubs, ruin bars, live-music venues and clubs here is a blurry one,
with many places morphing from bar to club and hosting DJs and a dance floor without
charging an entrance fee. Where there is a cover charge, the amount will vary on the event
or DJ; it can be as low as 300Ft or go to around 3500Ft. Clubs in the city run from small un-
derground caverns playing quality house and techno, and more mainstream complexes offer-
ing a variety of rooms and styles, to vast outdoor spaces that mimic summer music festivals.
There are even club nights in the city's famous thermal baths.
Some indoor clubs are forced to shut up shop during the summer months, when everyone
prefers to party outside. All venues usually stay open till dawn.
Cafe, Liszt Ferenc tér
Ingolf Pompe / GETTY IMAGES ©
Cafes & Teahouses
Cafes have long been an integral part of Budapest's social life. A
kávéház
is literally a 'cof-
fee house' (ie cafe). An
eszpresszó,
along with being a type of coffee, is essentially a coffee
