Budapest JazzHouse is staging a Secret Garden concert this Thursday, 2 July at an undisclosed alfresco location – and featuring some of the best names in the business.
You can't judge a book by its cover but can you tell a nightclub by the beer it might make? Artist Péter Csuth is behind a unique project of devising a brand for every major venue in town.
Lights, camera... action! Cinemas, spas, museums and theatres may reopen in June if the Hungarian Parliament agrees when they vote on the 16th of the month.
With bars opening their interiors from today, Friday 29 May, the city is seeing its nightlife industry come back to life – but many, such as Memories Pub Crawl Budapest, need foreign visitors back.
There's no summer without Budapest Park! The popular seasonal venue may have been forced to cancel its concert agenda until August, but it's now opening a venue within a venue: alfresco ParkKert.
Raise a post-shutdown glass on one of these lively terraces around Budapest, either by the Danube or deep in the heart of industrial Pest. And remember – social distancing, please!
They're open! Here's a selection of top terraces around Budapest that can legally open from this week – some are already serving drinks, others are opening up later. Cheers!!
Summer without Sziget – today's government announcement continuing the ban on public events attracting 500+ visitors means that many scheduled shows and festivals have had to be cancelled.
Budapest's wild and wacky Kolorádó Festival has been moved from June to 12-15 August, when audiences can look forward to four days of alternative music and entertainment.
Róbert Farkas of universally popular Budapest Bár talks about their 1,000 shows and eight (or is it 11?) albums of Gypsy, swing and evergreen tunes on stage and in the studio.
Hungary's key musicians, bands, artists, venues and festivals have come together to create a platform for live performance, streamed into people's living rooms: Maradj Otthon! (Stay at Home!).
In this latest of our Budapest blogs, with the city in shutdown mode, a memorial drink-up for well-known Londoner and long-term local Mark Phelan is postponed – but let's all raise a glass at home.
This summer's Sziget Festival, the biggest music event in the region, is still scheduled to take place this August, say organisers. The same goes for the VOLT Festival in Sopron and Balaton Sound.
Following the restrictions in place to deal with the coronavirus outbreak, major Budapest concert venues and party spots are forced to cancel events but several still operate as bars and restaurants.
Right in the heart of Budapest, live venue, party spot, dining destination and downtown hangout the Akvárium Klub is postponing all events due to coronavirus measures but will keep its bistro open.