Best Budapest Bars

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In entrepreneurial Budapest, the best times are to be had amid ruins. And we don’t mean shitty underground spaces with sweaty ceilings and barely-functioning toilets. No – for nights out that truly feel apocalyptic, so-called ‘ruin bars’ are where to head. Locals have transformed these old Soviet buildings into retro clubbing hotspots filled with communist-era paraphernalia, and in doing so put nightlife in Budapest well and truly on the Resident Advisor map. There are few more atmospheric place... Read more