Erzsébetváros & the Jewish Quarter shopping

A branch of the celebrated bookshop in Kraków, Massolit is one of Budapest’s best, with new and second-hand English-language fiction and nonfiction, including Hungarian history and literature in translation. It has …

Every Sunday, ruin pub Szimpla Kert holds a charming farmers' market where you can buy all manner of local jams, honey, yoghurt, cheese and bread from between 30 and 40 producers. Also available are paprika, vegetab…

This great designer-owned shop stocks an enviable supply of clothing and accessories from young contemporary Hungarian designers: Tomcsányi retro and vintage styles from the '70s and '80s, Kele knitwear, VYF scarves…

Bortársaság, once known as the Budapest Wine Society, has a dozen or so retail outlets in the capital with an exceptional selection of Hungarian wines and this one is right next door to the celebrated wine restauran…

Just to the right as you enter Budapest's most famous ruin pub, Szimpla Kert, this shop is an Aladdin's Cave of design and vintage curiosities. It stocks work from more than 50 designers, mostly Hungarian, alongside…

This wonderful, hip silkscreen studio, design shop and gallery focuses on local talent and sells bags, leather goods, prints, T-shirts, stationery and jewellery. There's both recycled and 'upcycled' (something old m…

With four branches scattered around town, Billerbeck has a large selection of feather and goose-down pillows, duvets and other bedding – products for which Hungary is well known – and helpful staff.

A Sunday arts and crafts market along Gozsdu udvar, where you can pick up some interesting pieces from local artists and designers. It's a good place to shop for souvenirs, too.

A bright, open space, stuffed with vintage fashion like US college jackets and Converse sneakers, plus a selection of new alternative lines from international designers.

A large, hip store with a vast collection of vintage clothing, bags, jewellery and shoes, and a small line in Hungarian streetwear designers.