Café New York is a magnificent coffeehouse from the Gründerzeit era in Budapest. In the early 1890s, the New York Life Insurance Company had a magnificent building constructed at the current address of Erzsébet körút 9–11 in Budapest’s seventh district (Erzsébetváros). The café (Hungarian: New York kávéház) was and still is located on the ground floor and basement. It opened on October 23, 1894, and survived wars and regime changes largely unscathed. After a years-long renovation hiatus beginning in 2001, the café reopened on May 5, 2006. read more…
The Viennese coffee house is a typical institution of Vienna that played an important part in shaping Viennese culture. Since October 2011 the “Viennese Coffee House Culture” is listed as “Intangible Cultural Heritage” in the Austrian inventory of the “National Agency for the Intangible Cultural Heritage”, a part of UNESCO. The Viennese coffee house is described in this inventory as a place, “where time and space are consumed, but only the coffee is found on the bill.” read more…
