Central Café, Pest district, one of the oldest Vienna-style café and restaurants since 1887 in Budapest, Hungary

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As one of the grandest of all historic Budapest coffee houses, the Central Café was not only a place for drinking coffee and nibbling cakes but a meeting place for writers, poets, editors and artists. Coffee culture was thriving in Budapest from around the early 1910’s until the beginning of the 1930’s. In this era the around 500 cafés were scattered around the city. They served as common meeting places of talented writers, poets and artists. Some of them spent most of the day in their favourite place, musing or writing at their regular tables.

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Location: Károlyi Mihály utca 9, Budapest, Hungary
Photo credit: © Jeff Gilbert / Alamy / Afripics
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