Spinoza Café

Erzsébetváros & the Jewish Quarter


This attractive cafe-restaurant includes a theatre where klezmer (Jewish folk music) concerts are staged at 7pm on Fridays (4900Ft concert only, 12,000Ft with three-course meal), along with a coffee house and restaurant where there’s live piano music nightly. The food is mostly Hungarian and Jewish comfort food, not kosher but no pork. The all-day breakfast (1900Ft) is a steal.


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