Dit is hoe die New York Cafe* in die 7de distrik van Budapest beskryf word deur die Italiaanse eienaars!
Budapest se kafees (of koffiehuise) is van wereldstandaard en daar is 'n paar wat in die oortreffende trap beskryf word soos onder andere die Gerbaud, maar New York kom elke keer bo! Omdat ons begrotingsbeplanning net een van hierdie top-kafees kon insluit, het ons die New York gekies.
Vir die geleentheid het ek my rooi satynbloes (vergete al by welsynswinkel gekoop) en Turkse syserp aangetrek (saam met Barrington-jeans waarmee ek in Zagreb geval het), twee paar handskoene saamgeneem en ken-omhoog-en-maag-ingetrek daar ingestap. Gewag om deur 'n uitgevatte kelner na 'n tafel-vir-twee begelei te word.
Twee dae gelede het my kredietkaartstaat my weer die hele uur-in-weelde laat herleef: 'n yskoffie en aarbeimelkskommer @ R185.00. Alles die moeite werd want dit is soos 'n museum waar jy kon sit en terugdink aan die skrywers en filosowe wat aan die begin van die 20ste eeu daar vergader het.
www.budapest-tourist-guide.com
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.
Ink and paper were free for them and they could eat the "writer's menu" (bread, cheese and cold cuts) at discount price. Besides artists ordinary people also popped in for a cup a coffee on Sunday afternoons.
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Historic Budapest Coffee Houses were a home to vivid cultural life. If you'd wanted to know the latest news and gossip in town you would just have to sit in one of these grand cafés.
Most of the classic Budapest coffee houses were destroyed during the world wars. The communist regime did not do good to them either. The leaders of the communist party considered the cafés as a center of underground organizations, so to put an end to any conspiracy they closed the most popular historic coffee houses in Budapest.
In recent years many once-grand cafés have been restored to their original splendour and try to revive coffee culture.
* webtuiste van boscolo hotel:
The New York Life Insurance Company assigned architect Alajos Hauszmann, to plan the company's hall building in Budapest. Hauszmann, with Flóris Korb and Kálmán Giergl planned a four story eclectic palace, with a café on its ground floor. The building and the café opened on October 23, 1894. The statues and other ornaments on the front side of the building, as well as the ground floor café's 16 imposing devilish fauns, each one beside the café's sixteen windows, are the works of Károly Senyey.
The building was nationalized during the communist era. After the collapse of socialism, the palace was bought by Italian Boscolo Hotels in February 2001. The building was totally renovated, and reopened on May 5, 2006 as a 107 room luxury hotel, with the Café, also totally renovated, on its ground floor.
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