NEW YORK POST
“How Budapest’s historic Jewish Quarter became the city’s mecca of cool”
“Fifteen years ago, Budapest’s now-pulsating seventh district — also known as Erzsébetváros — was a derelict neighborhood filled with abandoned buildings.Then, a sprawling old factory was converted into Szimpla Kert, a “ruin pub” with rooms sporting thrift-store furniture and a massive outdoor patio.
The new pub helped transform the city’s Jewish Quarter into a mecca of cool, underground culture.”