Bar Instant Budapest
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Instant Budapest
Bar Instant in Budapest is one of the famous ruin pubs which are very popular in Budapest and are very trendy among tourists, expats as well as locals. It is a similar place to Szimpla Kert or other ruin pubs which seem to open up on each and every corner due to the success they are. The mechanism is fairly simple, an old ruin or rather not restaurated house in the city center is rented, most of the time because it is too expensive to renew it, put some old chairs which you can buy on the flee market or used from other bars and pubs in there and place a bar somewhere. That is all what a ruin pub is about.
Ruin pubs used to be the place to go for rather alternative people and students but became very famous over the time with more and more tourists coming. These days you can find these bars in every tourist guide so it is not the secret place to go to which it used to be.
Bar Instant came along after the first wave of ruin pubs with Szimpla, the old West Balkan or Romkert but with very good interior design they quickly closed the gap to other, more prominent bars and became one of the first choice among tourists. However since these places are visited by stag groups, foreign students and expats mainly they lost their attractiveness and you need to search for the really back to the roots old school ruin bars.
The prices in Bar Instant in Budapest are average and the product range normal. They does not serve food except from some really bad tasting sandwiches but thats not why you go there. So to have a beer with some friends Instant in Budapest is very good. Go have a try.
Adress:
Nagymező utca 38
District 6, 1065 Budapest.
I cant agree with quite similiar to Szimpla Kert. It is not as cozy as Simpla Kert, therefore perhaps less tourists than in Szimpla Kert and the possibility to dance in the basement.
I went to this bar last week because my friends took me. The building and athmosphere was good, but I was disappointed by everything else and wouldn’t go back there ever.
From 1st January 2012 it’s prohibited to smoke in closed premises. If people smoke, they will be fined, however nobody gets a penalty during the transition period which is the 1st March 2012. Thinking with common sense it means smoking is already banned but if somebody does smoke he can get away with it just now. In this bar many many people were smoking, making it unbearable to stay there for a non smoker like my friends and myself. It was also too hot inside and no air flow at all, disgusting!
There was a sign at the entrance that using the cloak room is compulsory and it costs HUF 200 (about GBP 0.80). Not a big issue, but:
- the sign didn’t say that people arriving before 8 PM are exempt
- we saw many people inside with their jackets. when we asked the security staff about it they were very rude and said “they arrived before 8PM and anyway don’t mind other people’s business”
- we went to the cloak room and my friend asked if she could put her jacket together with her boyfriend’s. the answer was “yes but it costs HUF 400″. So it means no, then just say no!
- you had to pay extra for using the toilet
We left after 10 minutes.