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Shopping in Budapest

The prices are still lower than at home and the range is almost as good. Don’t forget to try all the Hungarian specialities: art and handicrafts, hand-made ties and shoes, music, wine, liqueurs and sausage and twists of garlic.

As you amble, you can relax in some of the many cafés on the pedestrianised street.

The main shopping street

Right in the heart of the city, close to many of Metro Travel’s hotels, lies Budapest’s main shopping artery, Váci utca. A long pedestrianised street with shops catering for all tastes. Even the side streets have got good things to offer. Shoes at Haris köz, Wine City at Párizsi and "the tower of fashion" at Fehér Hajó.

Other major shopping streets include Kossuth Lajos utca and Rákóczi út.

The largest food market in the city

Nagyvásárcsarnok. A full 10,000 square metres in size. Here, you can buy food to take home with you as a souvenir: goose liver, wine, salami, peppers in bunches or in pouches (édes is mild, csípõs is strong). Förvám ter 1-3 (by the Freedom bridge).

Wine-tasting

Magyar Borok Hása (The Hungarian House of Wine). Taste the famous Tokaji Aszú and other good wines from the country’s 22 wine-growing districts. A host of wine shops: Le Sommelier on Régiposta út and Weinhaus at Jókái tér.

Mammut is the largest shopping centre on the Buda side.

Large shopping centres

Mammut. Vast shopping centre with loads of clothes shops, restaurants and bowling. Lövöház utca 2-6. Metro line 2 as far as Moszkva tér.

West End Centre. Biggest, with 600 shops. Körút Boulevard. Metro line 1 to Nyugati pu.

Duna Plaza, almost 150 different shops. Váci út 178 (not to be confused with Váci utca, which is pedestrianised). Metro line 3 to Gyöngyösi utca.

More gift ideas

CDs: Rózsavölgyi, Szervita tér 5.
Handicrafts: Centre for Popular Art, Váci utca 14.
Hand-painted porcelain: Zsolnay, Kristóf tér 2. Herend, József nádor tér 11.

Ecseri Piac is the biggest flea market in the city

Markets

Ecseri Piac. 10,000 square metres of antiques, curios, odds and ends and nick-nacks. Most traders - and customers – on Saturdays . Haggle. Nagykörösi út. Ecseri metro station, then bus No. 54.

Józefvárosi. Products from South-East Asia and old Eastern Europe at low prices. Take bus No. 9 from Deak tér.

Antiques

Falk Miksa utca. Here, antique shops are packed together so tightly they almost rub shoulders with each other. Also, why not try the street on Szent István körút which is part of the main avenue.

More tips can be found at www.budapestinfo.hu