Time Out Market: Budapest to host Central and Eastern Europe’s most outstanding gastronomy market in 2025
Imagine a bustling hub where world-class cuisine meets local flavour, all under one historic roof. In the second half of 2025, Budapest’s iconic Blaha Lujza Square will welcome Time Out Market, the first gastro-market of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe. Set within the beautifully restored Corvin Palace, this vibrant space promises to blend the city’s rich culinary heritage with global gastronomic trends, offering a dining experience like no other. It would be a shame to miss out on this…
From magazine to a vibrant gastro-market
As Helló Magyar writes, Time Out Market is a gastronomic destination that combines international standards with a focus on local specialities. Featuring stalls from the city’s best and most popular restaurants and chefs, it offers an unrivalled culinary experience. The concept debuted in Lisbon, where visitors can enjoy everything from simple local dishes to creations by Michelin-starred chefs—all at affordable prices. For over 50 years, Time Out has been curating the best a city has to offer, from culture and nightlife to food and drink. Now, this curatorial expertise has taken shape in Time Out Market, a space designed to showcase the very best of the city under one roof, all with the trusted endorsement of Time Out.
Time Out Markets around the world
The Time Out Market concept has expanded far beyond its original home, with similar gastronomic markets thriving in major cities across multiple continents. In the Americas, you’ll find them in Montreal, Boston, New York, and Chicago; in Africa, in Cape Town; in the Middle East, in Bahrain and Dubai; and in Europe, in Barcelona and Porto. The idea remains consistent wherever it lands: the best local chefs and restaurants occupy the stalls, selected through a rigorous screening process, with the lineup refreshed every few years.
Culinary experience in Budapest
These markets cater to both locals and tourists. Locals can enjoy dishes from their favourite spots in a lively setting, with the bonus that groups of friends aren’t limited to choosing just one type of cuisine. Tourists, meanwhile, can dive into the local culinary scene in the most accessible way. A similar experience is coming to Budapest, where a former dancefloor will transform into a vibrant space filled with food stalls and communal tables featuring top local eateries. While Time Out Market Budapest is set to open in the second half of 2025, the list of participating restaurants remains under wraps.
However, Time Out has revealed that the market will feature 14 kitchens showcasing award-winning chefs, local culinary favourites, and up-and-coming restaurateurs. Alongside the food, visitors can enjoy drinks from four bars, including innovative cocktails crafted by local mixologists, all in a space designed to accommodate 800 guests. With an event area and a menu reflecting Budapest’s rich and diverse food scene, Time Out Market Budapest promises to become a culinary and cultural hotspot when it opens next year.
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Time Out – Lisbon, is Magnificent.
From a culinary perspective CHOICE, the Lisbon facility, what delighted us, was the variety of sea-food.
That CHALLENGES – Budapest simple through geographical location, in comparison, to Lisbon – its location being a “coastal” in location.
Big “high” RISK investment, with the Hungarian Economy in “free fall”.
The tourist – if they come in the summer months “flogged” in marketing promotion, especially the river ships, may be its SAVER.
Hungarians in millions growing, affordability, the simple fact of not having disposable in-come, will not the “life line” in the survival of this facility.
Its “proposed” opening date in 2025 – mid to late 2025, the Economic picture, state of the Hungarian Economy, gives NO reasons other than to expect it, in a deeper WORSENING state / condition, than it is at this present time, which is a cataclysmic DISASTER.
Concur – with High Risk Investment.
There will be initially the “Domino Effect” – the falling over, going out of business, the SMALL take-away “food” outlets, many run by a “sole” individual and many family operated.
We have seen it – especially post Covid, that was a “Blood” bath, in the food industry, most effected restaurants, that disappeared ceased to operate, in hundreds.
Sustainability – competition, high number we have currently, in the “small” take-away “grab and run” fast food outlets.
Scalps – victims will be claimed, eaten up, that will “go under”.