Markets Budapest

The Szimpla kert, a famous bar in ruins, hides a peaceful Sunday market. In the Sunday Szimpla, you can buy cheese, cold meats, honey, jam and other homemade products, often organic. A few fruit and vegetable stalls complete the picture. The atmosphere is family and even musical. To put at the top of your list of Sunday activities, especially since you can drink and eat there (the profits go to a different association each time).

A bit of Hungarian countryside in the heart of Terézváros. The hall has been rebuilt even if the outside is almost invisible. In the open air, on Hunyadi square, producers from the surrounding regions invade the square during the week on Friday and Saturday mornings until 2pm. It's full on Saturday morning! We buy paprika, smoked sausages, fresh milk, homemade syrup or, in the fall, an excellent apple juice. Not to be missed under any circumstances!

It is certainly the most touristy of all the (covered) markets in the city, but it is certainly the most aesthetic (from the outside anyway)! On the first floor, there are stalls selling fruits and vegetables, meats, dry sausages (kolbász), salami, paprika; on the first floor, all kinds of Hungarian souvenirs (most of them made in China), a bit like a tourist souk, as well as small buffets where you can eat and drink, standing up and on the go.

The city's most popular market, housed in a surprising hall, a kind of remix of Budapest's own architectural eclecticism. One critic did not hesitate to speak about it "as an image of the fall of totalitarianism described in the radical language of the East"! No matter, the interior is bright, the ground floor is a deli palace, the grandmothers sell their goods a little further away and the buffets allow you to eat at the lowest prices.

The last of Budapest's market halls, built at the end of the ^19th century and now renovated, the impressively wrought-ironed Place Klauzál market is a lively place, filled with fruit and vegetable stalls in the center and on the sides, as well as excellent butchers, cheesemongers, bakers, refreshment stands and cafés... A few street food restaurants upstairs, Hungarian-style canteens on the first floor and a Spar supermarket, open even on Sundays. On Sundays, the stalls give way to a 50s-70s flea market, from 10am to 5pm.

Without a doubt the most authentic market in Buda. It is similar to the market of Leher tér on the Pest side. Here, it's quite simple, despite the proximity of the very touristy castle hill, you can only find Hungarian customers who come to do their shopping. In the center, you can find small producers, market gardeners, and even retired people who cultivate their piece of land not far from Budapest. There are also lángosstands where you can eat on the go.