Marxim Restaurant
City: Budapest
Area: District 2.
Phone: 315 0750
The major appeal of this restaurant is not particularly its cuisine (although it’s really tasty food) but its décor and surroundings. Located near Moszkva tér, in a side-street bordered by a huge derelict factory, the entrance is marked by a neon sign, forming a Comminist red star.
The cellar space is virtually a museum of barbed wire, Communist propaganda posters, banners and cartoons depicting the era. Since Hungarian law bans "symbols of oppression", a lawsuit was filed against the restaurant, but was abolished shortly thereafter. This is one of the very few locations in Budapest where you can see this kind of stuff on display, so thoroughly have symbols of the Communist period been erased. Make sure to try the Lenin pizza, or the KGB Pasta while crouching over a cold beer, and study the menu, which is full of cynical names for food, all referring to the Communist era.
