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Heart-warming cafés in Budapest
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If you are interested in a coffee that will warm your soul and want others to benefit from your caffeine addiction, then check out our list. Because Budapest can boast itself on more than having three of the best cafés in the world, many of the most heart-warming cafés are also here.
Empathy Café & Bistro
Let us start with the latest: the Empathy Café & Bistro opened just last week, divany.hu reports. The café was established by the Hungarian Red Cross and is located in the former garage of the Red Cross headquarters, near Arany János Street.
You could already know from the reconstruction works that this is going to be something different, as they employed homeless people to help out, providing them a way to return to work. The café opened on the 6th of August, with goals to support the Red Cross, call our attention to important issues such as consciousness and to offer high quality Hungarian food and beverages. For example if you buy a bottle of wine from Hungarian Laposa Birtok here, you support the Red Cross with 100 Forints.
Moreover, the café is very environmentally conscious, trying their best to reduce their ecological footprint.
So, for example, they almost completely gave up on using plastic, and instead of bottled water, you can get filtered one. And left-overs are forwarded with the help of Budapest Bike Maffia to those in need.
The building also has wheelchair access and they keep the needs of blind and deaf people in mind too. If you enter with your dog, then do not be surprised to get some extra water for him. The café houses a communal library, with books offered by famous people, who also wrote their thoughts about empathy on the first pages.
Nem Adom Fel! – Never Give Up
The Nem Adom Fel or Never Give Up Café & Bar was the first Café in Budapest to be founded and run by people with special needs.
