Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
ARRIVAL AND INFORMATION: ESZTERGOM
Bytrain
The train station is 1km south of town and linked to the centre by bus #1 and #5, or
it's a 15min walk.
By bus
Buses run from Budapest's Újpest Városkapu terminal via Szentendre and Visegrád
(#880 hourly from stand 7; 2hr) or from the Árpád híd terminal via Dorog, west of the Pilis
Hills (#800 every 30min from stand 6; 1hr 15min), a less scenic but faster route (both routes
cost 950Ft). Arriving from Visegrád, get off near Basilica Hill rather than riding on to the bus
station in the south of town.
By boat
The boat leaves Budapest's Vigadó tér at 9am and takes five hours (May-Aug
Tues-Sun, Sept Sat only; 2500Ft;
mahartpassnave.hu
); it returns at 4.30pm, taking 3hr
30min to get back downriver.
By hydrofoil
The 9.30am hydrofoil (May-Sept Sat & Sun; 5000ft; 1hr 30min;
mahart-
passnave.hu
)
from Budapest ties up at Prímás-sziget, a 15min walk from the centre.
Information
There is no tourist office in the town, but you can get information inside the
Prímás Pince
on Szent István tér (Mon-Sat 10am-10pm, Sun 10am-5pm; 33 541 965).
EATING AND DRINKING
Csülök Csárda
Batthyány utca 11-13 33 412 420.
Popular with tourists and locals alike,
the reasonably priced “
Knuckle Inn
” serves hearty Hungarian, Czech and German food, in-
cluding a myriad of knuckle-contrived dishes (2500Ft), as well as the likes of goose-liver pie
and smoked ox tongue.
Daily noon-10pm
.
Központi Kávéház
Vörösmarty utca 2 33 520 570.
A stylishly revamped Art Nouveau
patisserie-cum-chocolatier in the centre of town, whose fabulous coffee and delectable cakes
you'll find difficult to resist; there's a chocolate museum upstairs too. Daily 9am-8pm.
Padlizsán
Pázmány Péter utca 21 33 311 212.
A hive of activity in the otherwise quiet
Viziváros district, this well-regarded restaurant offers crisp, modern cooking, like pork fillet
with onion cake and roast potatoes (2500Ft); dine out on the pleasant stone-cobbled court-
yard. Daily
noon-10pm.
Primás Pince
Szent István ter 33 541 965.
Despite being completely hammed up for the
tourist hordes, the cavernous bowels of the former primate's wine cellars - all brick-vaulted
ceilings and neat rows of thick tables - are an enjoyable place to tuck into solid national grub.
Mon-Sat noon-10pm, Sun noon-5pm.
Trafó
Vörösmarty utca.
Popular little bar in an old electrical substation on a small triangular
square across the road from the Danube Museum: the terrace under the trees is a particularly
lovely spot to kick back with a coffee or glass of wine.
Mon-Sat 7am-2am, Sun
8am-midnight.
