What’s new in Budapest: 8 places to visit this December

Let us introduce you to a stylish wine bar, the newly reopened Museum of Fine Arts, a sweaty CrossFit gym, and 5 other places we highly recommend you to visit in the last month of 2018.

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Vini Cicchetteria

1136 Budapest, Pannónia utca 13.

Újlipótváros neighbourhood’s Vini Cicchetteria draws its name from the Venetian snack cicchetti, a tapas-like plate composed of tiny sandwiches, olives, and other toppings, accompanied by a glass of Italian wine. Situated three minutes on foot from Jászai Mari tér, Vini Cicchetteria provides its guests with a dose of dolce vita and an air of North Italian atmosphere, serving unique wines, handmade aperitivo foods, authentic Italian coffee, sweets, as well as Italian juices, from 7 AM on weekdays till late at night.

MrSale Café

1066 Budapest, Weiner Leó utca 6.

Serving premium Dallmayr coffees as well as richly topped sandwiches and homemade pastries, downtown’s MrSale Café will sate all of your culinary needs: besides ambrosial cakes, fresh salads and divine dips, mouth-watering breakfast bites are also available at the tiny café. When you drop by MrSale, don’t forget to try their refreshing spritzers made from the wines of Szekszárd’s Lajvér Winery, mixed with the likes of rosewater, black currant syrup, or lavender syrup. On the 15th of every month the venue gives place to the literary events of DRÓT Magazine.

Museum of Fine Arts

1146 Budapest, Dózsa György út 41.

After a complete refurbishment that has taken three years, Heroes’ Square’s landmark building, the Museum of Fine Arts reopened its gigantic doors to the public on 31 October. Complete with brand new exhibition spaces, a restaurant offering reinvented Hungarian dishes, the restored Roman Hall, and an assortment of paintings from the National Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts now showcases pieces of art from Hungary and abroad, from ancient times up until the end of the 18th century, with antiquities from Egypt and drawings from Leonardo amongst its grand collection.

CrossFit Grund

1136 Budapest, Hegedűs Gyula utca 14.

Why wait until the start of 2019 to begin tackling your fitness goals? Recently opened CrossFit Grund invites you only a two-minute walk away from Nyugati railway station, providing 30 sweaty crossfit trainings per week on 1,000 square metres, focusing on a different workout each day. From full body functional training to weightlifting and crossfit gymnastics, you can test your muscles and willpower through a number of disciplines in a supporting environment, as part of Budapest’s most diverse crossfit community. The first time is free!