Best cafe in Europe? New York Café for dessert in Budapest, Hungary

Come join us for a rare date as we we visit the New York Café in Budapest, Hungary for dessert as we sample cheesecake, champagne sorbet and a local beer. What initially comes to mind about the New York Cafe is just how wonderfully charming it is. When we think of some of the places around the world where we've had afternoon tea this ranks highly with the likes of the Peninsula hotel in Hong Kong or Cafe Tortoni in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This ornate cafe/restaurant has been operational since 1894 and you'll be charmed by its chandeliers, frescoes and live music while you have coffee, cake, tea and/or Hungarian cuisine.
New York Café
Address: Budapest, Erzsébet krt. 9-11, 1073 Hungary
Hours: Open daily · 8AM–12AM
Phone: +36 1 886 6167
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Best cafe in Europe? New York Café for dessert in Budapest, Hungary Travel Food Video Transcript:
Hello there! It is a Tuesday afternoon here in Budapest and Sam and I have decided to go on a fancy date. On a fancy date and why not? It is a beautiful day outside. It is! And we're just having a really lovely day so let's go out for a date. Let's go get some nice dessert or something. Dessert yes. So we are going to a place called New York Cafe and this coffeehouse has been voted one of the most beautiful in the whole world. It looks really luxurious online. So I'm really excited to get there.
Yeah, it is a real institution and what it dates back to the late 1800s. Yeah, it is old. It is very old so it should have some nice charm and yeah let's have a nice date.
Quick update. We did not make a reservation. You probably should be we are next in line because it is the middle of the afternoon. Fingers crossed.
So many choices. How will he ever decide? Sweet, savory what should he choose?
Probably going with the sweet.
Okay, so Sam has not seen any photos of this place before coming here. So first impressions?
Wow, this place is so much fancier than I expected. Like this is up there with some of the fanciest kinds of cafes we've visited in the world.
And like afternoon tea we've done a few of those. Yeah, it kind of reminds me a little bit of the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong and it also reminds me of Cafe Tortoni in Buenos Aires.
Yeah, so I ordered a sorbet and this is strawberry sorbet and champagne sorbet with real chunks of strawberry. And some mint leaves on top and.
So I probably went for the most bizarre drink and food pairing that you could possibly have at a fancy cafe.
I'm going for a beer and cheesecake. Borsodi. Yeah, Borsodi which is a local beer and this looks like a classic kind of New York style cheesecake and I think that is a passion fruit sauce. Apricot. Oh, apricot.
Price point time. That came to 19 Euros total.
We did order some of the cheaper options on the menu like the desserts were the cheapest food items that you could order on the menu and beer was literally the cheapest drink so we did get the beer but some of the other menu items that I noticed that you could get were there were two different kinds of tea sets.
One was 40 Euros the other one was 60. I also noticed that they had a New York burger which was 14 Euros. And they had other things. They had salads. So they have a pretty extensive menu. You could even get goulash as a soup.
And so yeah if you come here there is a lot of different choices. You can come for mains, you can come for dessert and coffee like we did or you can get a great big tea set if you're willing to splurge.
So yeah, highly recommend this place. The atmosphere was really cool and this was just yeah this was a wonderful date I have to say.
So we hope you enjoyed that little food video but it was just short and sweet to kind of show you how beautiful that cafe is. It was more impressive I think than either of us were expecting. Yes, absolutely. So yeah, successful date and now I think it is siesta time.
This is part of our Travel in Europe video series showcasing European food, European culture and European cuisine.
This is part of our Travel in Hungary video series showcasing Hungarian food, Hungarian culture and Hungarian cuisine.