Pest Centre, VII, Király utca (T4,6), 5min
Not the most cosmetic of Budapest’s bars or coffee shops, Sirály is nevertheless worth a visit as an informal, low-priced, student and Wifi hotspot.
The ground floor morphs from cafe to bar as the day progresses. Drinks are pretty cheap, no matter what you’re drinking and there are a few bread or pastry snacks available at the bar. It’s also extraordinarily well-lit!
A spiral staircase winds it’s way past the first floor, little more than a lovers’ couch, to a more studious second floor, where there’s plenty of room to spread paper across the desks. (Why bother with the library at all?) It doubles up as a live music venue on selected evenings. Although actual decoration is pretty sparse, there’s often some art exhibited at the top of the staircase and the whole place is littered with photos and flyers. I get the feeling that if you asked them to put anything up on the wall, they would.
Sirály is no-frills but customer-and bicycle-friendly: the kind of place that you can sit around in for as long as your battery will last, without feeling any pressure to keep buying drinks. This might explain the fact that it never feels particularly empty, despite being pretty sizeable.
Walk down Király utca from Erzsebet Korut. After the yellow church, look for an unremarkable-looking cafe on the right.
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