Manyi - Kulturális Műhely

Fifteen years ago, many bars in Budapest's District 7 (Jewish Quarter) looked and felt like Manyi does today: a run-down pre-war building transformed into a labyrinthine drinking joint and cultural space. Filled with a free-spirited local crowd, I’d call Manyi a ruin bar had that concept not been subverted and rendered meaningless by the stag party crowd that has monopolized Budapest's Jewish Quarter in recent years. Manyi, which is on the Buda side, is one of the more popular places currently among local twentysomething alternatives; all I ask is that you don’t ruin it (pun intended).

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