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Save/ShareClever entrepreneurs in Budapest are getting temporary leases and turning abandoned old buildings into romkocsmas, or ruin bars. In some cases, the pop-up venues actually go far beyond bars—they're more like living rooms for the local art scene.
Szimpla Kert, in Pest, is the most expansive, with a coffeehouse, a bar, a small cinema, and a garden (Kazinczy u. 14, 011-36/1-352-4198). Two blocks away in a former apartment building, Mumus, favored by the absinthe-sipping crowd, is a labyrinth of rooms and hallways decorated with cartoonlike stencils and thrift-store sofas (Dob u. 18). At Instant, get a $3 Borsodi beer and head upstairs to the Viennese-style balcony to see a hanging sculpture of a school of fish (Nagymezo u. 38).
—Evan Rail, from the September 2009 issue of Budget Travel
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The absinthe-sipping crowd sounds like they should be friends of mine. Prior to the legalization of absinthe in the USA last year, we used to have to ship it in from Hungary via the internet. The stuff they sell here now still doesn't measure up to Hapsburg or the other eastern European brands but they're not too bad and a whole lot less expensive.
Absinthe has a rich and controversial history. It is worth it just to check it out using Google searches for art and history +absinthe. Hemingway wrote about and a number of artists and authors were inspired by its qualities.
Posted By Tom B. on August 22, 2009, 6:01 PM