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Monarchia Borászati
Monarchia has an extensive selection from both established and new Hungarian vintners, but the best on offer are those bottled under its own label.
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Mountex
This huge emporium on two levels with branches throughout the city (and country for that matter) carries all the gear you'll need for hiking, climbing, camping and so on.
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Museum of Fine Arts office
For foreign paintings, sculptures and other works of art.
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Nagy Tamás
Budapest's best cheese shop stocks more than 200 varieties of Hungarian and imported cheeses; ask for the Hungarian kecskesajit (goat's cheese) made by an eccentric theatre critic.
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Nagycsarnok
The 'Great Market' is Budapest's biggest food market; since being renovated in 1996, it also has dozens of stalls on the 1st floor's south side selling Hungarian folk costumes and handicrafts. Gourmets will appreciate the shrink-wrapped and potted foie gras, a good selection of dried mushrooms, garlands of dried paprika, sacks and tins of paprika powder, and as many types of honey and wine as you'd care to name.
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Náray Tamás
The principal outlet for Hungary's most celebrated and controversial designer, the Paris-trained Tamás Náray, stocks elegant ready-to-wear fashion and accessories for women, and also accepts tailoring orders.
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National Széchenyi Library
For books, printed matter, written music, hand-written items dating from before 1957.
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Nyugat Antikvárium
The 'West Antiquarian Bookshop' stocks both foreign- and Hungarian-language titles.
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Pendragon
While this 'English bookshop', which takes its name from the legend of King Arthur, has an excellent selection of English books and guides (including Lonely Planet titles), most Anglophones will have a hard time making themselves understood here.
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Pintér Antik
With a positively enormous antique showroom measuring 1800 sq metres in a series of cellars near Parliament, Pintér has everything from furniture and chandeliers to oil paintings and china.
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Porcelánház
This is the shop to source colourful pottery from Hődmezővásárhely in southeastern Hungary, a centre of that craft for hundreds of years.
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Red Bus Secondhand Bookstore
Below the popular Red Bus Hostel (Belvaros branch) is the top shop in town for used (as opposed to antiquarian) English-language books.
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Rózsavölgyi és társa
This music shop is a good choice for CDs and tapes of traditional folk music.
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Sporthorgász
This is the place to come for rods, reels, flies and anything else it takes to get you out fishing.
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Szőnyi Antikváriuma
This long-established antiquarian bookshop has an excellent selection of antique prints and maps (look in the drawers) as well as books.
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Tangó Classic
Tangó stocks exclusive women's suits, blazers, jackets, evening attire and accessories with a Hungarian twist. There's also a district V branch (V Apáczai Csere János utca 3) nearby.
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Thomas Sabo
This Germany-based jewellery design company with Hungarian roots specialises in exquisite modern pieces in sterling silver.
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Timpanon
This seldom-noticed shop in Óbuda sells antique Hungarian folk art of every shape and size: mangle boards, woodcarvings, chests etc. But don't expect any bargains. An early 19th-century tulipán láda (trousseau chest with tulips painted on it) from the Felvidék area of Slovakia will cost you around 130,000Ft. There's a Buda branch called Almárium.
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Vass
A traditional shoemaker that stocks both ready-made and bespoke footwear, Vass has a reputation that goes back to 1896, and some people travel to Hungary just to have their shoes made here.
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Wave Music
Wave is an excellent outlet for both Hungarian and international indie music.
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West End City Centre
In central Pest, this Goliath has everything you could possibly want or need, with 400 shops, telecom outlets, large indoor fountains, the hair-raising Budapest Eye and the 230-room Hilton West End .
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Zsolnay
For both contemporary and traditional fine porcelain from Pécs, check out Zsolnay, a long-time purveyor of ceramic gifts made using the eosin manufacturing process. A vast range of beautiful vases, jewellery boxes and other items are available in the famous Zsolnay patterns. We like the iridescent green frogs.
