• Mark Zuckerberg Enjoys A Drink In Budapest

    • 29 May 2013 9:00 AM

    Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was seen drinking with his wife on Monday evening at Godzsu Udvar in downtown Budapest. Mr. Facebook was spotted in Spiler, a trendy restaurant-pub in the heart of the Jewish district. According to the owner, Zuck and wife were really friendly and polite, but didn’t stay too long. Seems he's well-informed about Budapest nightlife, since he chose a hip hang-out like Spiler.

  • Pálinka: The Hungarian Spirit

    • 28 May 2013 9:00 AM

    Forget the flavored vodkas if coming to Hungary! You have to try the fruit based unique drink of the country, the pálinka, and get into the real Hungarian spirit. Let’s see what your international fellows said about pálinka last year at Sziget:

  • Invitation: Főzdefeszt 5., Budapest, 7 - 9 June

    • 28 May 2013 9:00 AM

    Twentieth century beer-marketing has done great efforts in order to convince everyone that beer is a summer-drink, while we know it was even banned to brew beer in the summer before the invention of mechanic cooling. In the winter, we spend our efforts to convince open-minded beer drinkers about the opposite, but now its summer so we raise our glasses to Carl von Linde, the inventor of artificial cooling.

  • Weekend Escape To Malta From Budapest

    • 28 May 2013 9:00 AM

    As WizzAir now provides expats in Hungary with flights timed for a weekend away in Malta, here's an insightful report about the ways locals suggest to enjoy this new 'Wizz destination'. "Two days isn’t enough!” my Maltese friends Michael and Jennifer exclaim when I tell them I’m coming to Malta to experience the island like a local. Their email recommends I stay at least four days, especially seeing as there are no trains on the island to ease my journey. “Only buses,” they say, “which are fine around the capital, Valletta, but can be unreliable further out.”

  • Invitation: Esben And The Witch (UK) Concert, A38 Ship Budapest, 16 May

    • 16 May 2013 9:00 AM

    Named after a Danish fairy tale and crafting fittingly eerie and bewitching music, Brighton, England’s Esben & the Witch features a truly unique, refined and intelligent, melancholic and kicking sound. Two great bands will come from Budapest as their support, while the Holalo dj-s will end the night with a refined set.

  • Invitation: Caravan Palace (FR) Concert, A38 Ship Budapest, 17 May

    • 15 May 2013 9:00 AM

    Caravan Palace is a French Electro swing and Gypsy Jazz band based in Paris. The groupformed when three of the band members were hired by a film production company called 'The Succiona Pichulas-Lagarto' to provide the soundtrack to silent pornographic movies. Since then they are the French Gotan Project.