Best hotels in Budapest | A Curated Visual Guide to Top Stays

Welcome to PressBeyond, the ultimate curated visual guide for design-driven hotels! My name is Will Miller and these are my recommendations for the best boutique and luxury hotels in Budapest.

I am the founder of PressBeyond and I am an ultra-meticulous hotel curator who loves clean visuals. I have individually analyzed and tiered each hotel included in this guide based on a variety of criteria (architecture & design, location, brand & brand affiliation, existing reviews, and my own personal experiences), and importantly, I have hand-selected the leading imagery for each hotel to provide you with easily-digestible, yet detailed and complete, like-for-like, high-level visual profiles. I felt this summarization step was a critical missing piece across existing guides, blogs, and booking platforms. My aim is to make it easier for people to identify hotel environments that resonate with them, along with enabling them to visualize the types of social experiences that those environments help foster. My brain doesn't work when exposed to cluttered content, so my goal was to create the opposite.

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An Overview of the Boutique & Luxury Hotel Landscape in Budapest

The Danube-facing facade of the Four Seasons Gresham Palace says more about Budapest's architectural ambitions than almost anything built since. Completed in 1906 by Zsigmond Quittner and the Vágó brothers as a headquarters for a British insurance company, the building is among the finest Secession-era structures in Central Europe — all peacock-gate ironwork, Zsolnay ceramic details, and mosaic floors that survived decades of Soviet-era neglect before a meticulous restoration returned it to use as a hotel in 2004. That tension between extraordinary inherited fabric and the question of what to do with it runs through much of Budapest's best accommodation. The Anantara New York Palace in Erzsébetvéros operates on the same logic: the 1894 palazzo by Alajos Hauszmann, once home to the most celebrated literary café in the city, now carries a Thai luxury brand while the gilded New York Café on its ground floor remains one of the most architecturally extravagant interior spaces in Hungary. Nearby, the Corinthia Hotel occupies a similarly layered grand hotel building on the Nagykörút ring boulevard, its restored ballroom doing significant architectural work. Where the palace conversions trade on historicism, a different strand of the city's accommodation pulls toward restraint. Hotel Clark in the Castle District — named after the Scottish engineer Adam Clark, who oversaw the construction of the Chain Bridge — occupies a contemporary building with clean geometries and direct views across to Buda, making a case for modern hospitality architecture in a neighborhood otherwise dominated by heritage preservation. On Andrássy Avenue, the W Budapest and Hotel Moments sit within the Andrássy út corridor, a UNESCO-listed boulevard whose neo-Renaissance apartment buildings have proven surprisingly adaptable to hotel use. The W brings its familiar brand vocabulary to the address; Moments operates at a slightly quieter frequency. The Parisi Udvar in Belváros is the sleeper of the group. The 1909 Moorish-Gothic passage building — by Henrik Schmahl, with its extraordinary stained-glass atrium — was derelict for years before being restored as a Hyatt Unbound Collection property, and it rewards guests who spend time inside rather than rushing past the lobby. Matild Palace, also in Belváros, follows a comparable logic of redemption: a corner Eclectic-style building from 1902, reopened in 2021 as a Marriott Luxury Collection property with interiors by the Hungarian firm Paulinyi and Partners. Together they make the inner city's historic stock feel less like backdrop and more like the actual point.

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Hotel Moments Budapest

Budapest • Andrássy Avenue • OPTIMIZE

avg. $236 / night

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Hotel Moments Budapest Design Editorial

Andrássy Avenue's UNESCO-listed boulevard, Budapest's answer to the Champs-Élysées, is lined with eclectic-style palaces from the 1880s and 1890s, and the late nineteenth-century building that houses Hotel Moments Budapest is among the most architecturally assured of them — its facade a confident layering of rusticated stone base, red brick piano nobile with stucco-framed windows, and an elaborately ornamented attic story whose relief panels catch the low Hungarian light. The interior atrium, visible in the images, is the building's true structural revelation: cast-iron columns with ornate capitals carry wrought-iron balustrades across four galleried levels, the whole volume washed in cream plaster and marble flooring, a spatial typology closer to a Viennese Ringstrasse palace than anything a purpose-built hotel would have produced. The contemporary intervention sits lightly against this architectural backdrop. The lobby is furnished with a loose arrangement of mid-century-inflected seating — curved modular sofas in charcoal, mustard lounge chairs, wire-framed side tables — beneath oversized disc pendant lights whose gold-lined shades provide warm contrast to the vaulted fresco ceiling above the arched arcade. Guest rooms carry the dialogue forward through herringbone-parquet oak floors, deep saffron curtains, and headboards formed from richly patterned panels that appear to reference the building's own ornamental vocabulary. The mansard-level rooms introduce sloped skylights and geometric tile flooring, their contemporary roofline geometry set against the same decorative printed artwork, bridging the building's historic bones with a frank and unapologetic modernity.

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W Budapest

Budapest • Andrássy Avenue • OPTIMIZE

avg. $242 / night

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W Budapest Design Editorial

Drechsler Palace sat empty on Andrássy Avenue for the better part of two decades, its French Renaissance facade and Ödön Lechner-designed ornament quietly deteriorating while Budapest transformed around it. The building's resurrection as W Budapest in 2023 is one of the more improbable acts of adaptive reuse in recent Central European hospitality — a UNESCO World Heritage address, completed in 1886 by Lechner and Gyula Pártos, handed to London studio Bowler James Brindley to fill with saturated color and maximalist energy. Working alongside Budapest firm Bánáti + Hartvig, who managed the restoration architecture, they chose not to whisper around the historic shell but to argue with it productively. The 151 guestrooms deploy teal lacquer, brass perforated headboard panels, geometric rugs in copper and blue, and curved coral sofas in combinations that somehow find equilibrium with the original plasterwork cornices and tall arched windows. The deeper you go into the building, the more interesting the collision becomes. The restaurant layers channeled navy banquettes, blue ceramic urn lamps, and gold-domed pendant lights against checkerboard floors and mirror-tiled ceilings that multiply the whole composition into infinity. But the most arresting space is below grade, where the spa pool sits beneath a vaulted masonry ceiling of fan-arched ribs — warm terracotta plaster meeting gold column trim and a cool blue-tiled basin. Whatever Lechner imagined for this building in 1886, it probably wasn't this. It's better for it.

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Hotel Clark Budapest

Budapest • Castle District • OPTIMIZE

avg. $258 / night

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Hotel Clark Budapest Design Editorial

At the foot of Buda's Castle Hill, where Adam Clark Square meets the western end of the Chain Bridge, a curved eight-storey building clad in dark oxidised bronze-toned panels holds one of Budapest's more considered contemporary hotel positions. Hotel Clark Budapest, which opened in 2019 with 96 rooms across its gently bowed facade, was designed by Hungarian practice Zs+B Group, the building's rounded corner responding to the geometry of the roundabout below while a glazed rooftop pavilion — visible clearly from the Danube embankment — crowns the structure without competing with the neoclassical neighbours pressing in on either side. Inside, the interiors draw on Art Deco geometry filtered through a contemporary Hungarian sensibility: rooms feature faceted graphic wall treatments behind the headboards, evoking cut crystal or gemstone faceting, dark walnut flooring, and oversized drum pendants that anchor the bed without overwhelming compact floor plates. The palette shifts between warm taupe and deep navy, with colourful illustrative scatter cushions providing the kind of editorial wit that prevents the scheme from tipping into corporate neutrality. The ground-floor restaurant deploys emerald green buttoned banquettes, blue velvet dining chairs, white hexagonal floor tile, and a marble-topped bar beneath a large brass-framed pendant light — a room that carries the mood of a 1930s Parisian brasserie translated into a Budapest key. On the rooftop, the Leo bar frames an unobstructed view of the Hungarian Parliament through a glass-and-steel structure furnished with tropical upholstery and rattan lanterns.

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Dorothea Hotel, Budapest, Autograph Collection

Budapest • Lipótváros • OPTIMIZE

avg. $262 / night

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Dorothea Hotel, Budapest, Autograph Collection Design Editorial

Three buildings spanning sixty years of Budapest's architectural ambition — a Neo-Renaissance palazzo from 1873, an Art Nouveau commercial block from 1910–1913, and a sober Rationalist structure from 1937 — were unified and reborn in 2023 as the Dorothea Hotel, Autograph Collection, one of the more architecturally layered hospitality projects central Europe has seen in years. Piero Lissoni and his Milan studio Lissoni & Partners took on the challenge of threading these distinct personalities together across 216 rooms and suites in Lipótváros, Budapest's civic heart. The most arresting gesture is a heritage staircase flanked by more than 5,000 custom Zsolnay ceramic tiles — the famous Pécs manufactory's handcraft scaled to something closer to an installation than a decorative flourish. What Lissoni brings to the interiors is his characteristic refusal of period cosplay. Rooms carry the bones of their nineteenth-century shells — tall panelled windows, deep cornicing, herringbone oak floors — but furnish them with dark four-poster frames, emerald velvet seating, and Arabescato marble tabletops that feel more Milan than Mitteleuropa. The atrium restaurant, with its vertiginous black steel gallery structure, pendant lighting, bentwood café chairs, and dense tropical planting, pulls off a convincing metropolitan ambiguity. The spa descends into something quieter: a lap pool walled in slabs of deep Verde marble, candlelit and carved from the building's foundations, where the city above feels very far away.

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Kozmo Hotel Budapest

Budapest • Józsefváros • OPTIMIZE

avg. $270 / night

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Kozmo Hotel Budapest Design Editorial

One of Budapest's most ornate Historicist facades — red brick rising behind a stone plinth carved with figurative relief panels, sculptural finials crowning the roofline, arched windows framed in pale limestone — belonged for decades to the Magyar Földhitelintézet, a 19th-century land credit institution on Reviczky Street in Józsefváros. That civic grandeur is now the exterior shell of Kozmo Hotel Budapest, a 74-room property that opened in 2021 and chose to set the building's Beaux-Arts formality in deliberate tension with a sharp, monochromatic interior language. The rooms carry the atmosphere of a well-appointed private library: black powder-coated four-poster frames, floor-to-ceiling bookshelves painted charcoal, Verner Panton-era mushroom table lamps on bedside tables, herringbone and parquet oak flooring laid throughout. Where the suites open into sitting rooms, the palette softens to warm sand and taupe, with steel-framed glass partitions dividing sleeping from bathing spaces without interrupting the flow of natural light through the tall, original windows. The restaurant below works a different register — a dark marble island bar suspended beneath a steel bottle-rack chandelier, cylindrical brass pendant lights punctuating a room of panelled grey walls and navy velvet chairs. Downstairs, the spa pool is lined in veined stone, dark timber slat ceilings absorbing the light to create something close to a thermal grotto. The overall effect is of a building that has accepted its own grandeur while quietly stepping away from it.

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Párisi Udvar Hotel Budapest

Budapest • Belváros • OPTIMIZE

avg. $281 / night

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Párisi Udvar Hotel Budapest Design Editorial

At the junction of Ferenciek tere and Kígyó utca in Budapest's Belváros district, a Moorish-Gothic palace completed in 1909 to designs by Henrik Schmahl stops pedestrians cold — its limestone facade layered with ogival arches, ornamental turrets, and gilded tracery that places it in a uniquely Hungarian conversation between Viennese Secession and Oriental Revival. The building was conceived as a commercial arcade and apartment complex, and its inner passage — a double-height iron-and-glass atrium with ribbed vaulting, intricate cast ironwork balconies, and original geometric tilework underfoot — survives as one of Central Europe's most intact Jugendstil interiors. The Parisi Udvar Hotel Budapest, which joined the Autograph Collection under Marriott's umbrella when it reopened in 2019 after a decade of closure, was restored by the Budapest-based practice Zaha Hadid Architects' local collaborators alongside conservation specialists, with interior design handled by GA Design of London across its 110 rooms. GA Design's approach across the guestrooms threads a restrained contemporary vocabulary through the building's extravagance — padded leather headboards in warm champagne tones, ebonised console tables with brass detailing, herringbone oak floors, and geometric lattice-patterned carpets that echo the tilework below without mimicking it directly. The restaurant interior visible in the images deploys a coffered bronze ceiling above leather banquette seating and a curved black marble bar, the whole space dense with atmosphere and clearly at ease with the building's ornamental confidence. The original arcade passage, now a café and retail galleria, remains the property's true centrepiece.

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Anantara New York Palace Budapest

Budapest • Erzsébetváros • SPLURGE

avg. $313 / night

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Anantara New York Palace Budapest Design Editorial

Few buildings on Budapest's Erzsébet körút announce themselves with the theatrical confidence of the former Borsodi-Berzeviczy Palace, a late-nineteenth-century Historicist confection by architect Meinig Arthur whose corner tower, gilded baroque spire, and carved stone figures have commanded this stretch of the Grand Boulevard since 1894. The New York Life Insurance Company took the building first, commissioning its celebrated ground-floor café — the New York Kávéház — which became one of the great literary gathering places of Central Europe. Anantara New York Palace Budapest, set within this six-storey landmark, carries that layered identity carefully: the restored state rooms retain their original white-and-gilt stucco cartouches, Murano-style chandeliers, and elaborately carved mirror surrounds, visible in the dining room images here, where low-slung velvet chairs in dark tobacco sit against plasterwork of almost delirious density. The 185 guestrooms and suites, redesigned as part of a comprehensive restoration, work in deliberate counterpoint to all that Historicist extravagance outside. Interiors settle into a palette of warm taupe, pale champagne, and burnished bronze — upholstered platform beds, nailhead-trimmed sofas, and lacquered coffee tables with ebonised detailing giving the spaces a quietly contemporary register that doesn't compete with the facade. Upper-floor suites gain floor-to-ceiling glazing and private terraces with rooftop views across the seventh district. Below ground, the spa pool is lined in dark stone and backlit in indigo, a cavern-like contrast to the gilded public rooms above.

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Matild Palace, a Luxury Collection Hotel

Budapest • Belváros • SPLURGE

avg. $341 / night

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Matild Palace, a Luxury Collection Hotel Design Editorial

At the corner of Váci utca and the Danube embankment, where Budapest's inner city reaches its most theatrical pitch, a 1901 eclectic-baroque palace designed by Győző Czigler for Archduchess Maria Clotilde of Austria has been restored into Matild Palace, a Luxury Collection Hotel, after more than a century of institutional and administrative use. The building's crown — an elaborate ornamented tower rising above a limestone facade encrusted with sculpted cartouches, wrought ironwork, and gilded finials — was always the most recognizable silhouette on this stretch of the Pest embankment, and the restoration led by Bánáti + Hartvig has returned it to something close to its original ambition. Inside, the Hungarian studio Artus Studio managed the interiors across 130 rooms and suites, threading a contemporary sensibility through the historic envelope without flattening either. The standard rooms carry dark-stained timber desks in macassar ebony, teal velvet accent chairs, and patterned wool carpets in warm stone tones, while the rooftop mansard suites trade carved plasterwork for raked glazing and Iznik-patterned kilim runners against blonde oak floors. The ground-floor restaurant terrace, enclosed beneath a bronze-framed retractable glass canopy, brings olives and ficus trees into a room that manages to feel simultaneously urban and sheltered. From the rooftop bar, gilded domes and baroque spires crowd the horizon in every direction — the city performing its own grandeur just above eye level.

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Al Habtoor Palace, Budapest

Budapest • Erzsébet Square • SPLURGE

avg. $342 / night

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Al Habtoor Palace, Budapest Design Editorial

Anchoring Budapest's Erzsébet Square since 1948, the monumental neoclassical block that houses Al Habtoor Palace Budapest was conceived by Hungarian architect Lajos Kozma — a figure better known for his Art Deco furniture and interiors — as a deliberately sober response to the ideological pressures of postwar Central Europe. The limestone facade, with its rusticated base, arched attic windows, and relief sculptures of classical figures at street level, carries the disciplined gravity of late European rationalism, the building's bulk softened only by wrought-iron balcony rails and the warmth of its cream stone under evening light. Following a comprehensive restoration that brought the property into the Waldorf Astoria portfolio before its transition to the Al Habtoor brand, the 230-room, nine-floor hotel was refitted with interiors that layer mid-century European elegance over the original architecture's bones. The lobby bar deploys a checkerboard marble floor, cream upholstered stools, and warm-veined stone pilasters against a brass counter of considerable presence. Guestrooms balance padded ivory headboards with gold-lined wall panelling and sculptural floral pendants in gilded metal, while the attic suites gain drama from steeply raked dormer windows framing the Budapest roofline. The restaurant's herringbone oak floors and brandy-leather banquettes, copper-framed glazing dividers catching the amber light, give the dining room the atmosphere of a well-worn Viennese brasserie reinterpreted for a contemporary appetite.

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Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace Budapest

Budapest • Lipótváros • SPLURGE

avg. $551 / night

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Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace Budapest Design Editorial

One of Central Europe's most extravagant exercises in Hungarian Art Nouveau, the Gresham Palace was commissioned by the London-based Gresham Life Assurance Company and completed in 1906 to designs by Zsigmond Quittner, its limestone facade rising in layers of foliate ornament, wrought-iron peacock gates, and Zsolnay ceramic detailing directly opposite the Chain Bridge. Decades of Soviet-era neglect left the building in severe disrepair before a meticulous nine-year restoration returned it to use in 2004 as the Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace Budapest, a 179-room property that remains the most architecturally significant hotel conversion in the city. The restoration preserved Quittner's soaring stained-glass atrium, now the setting for a bar furnished with velvet club chairs in teal and gold, Tom Dixon-style task lamps lining a long counter of dark marble, and a grand piano anchoring the room beneath a blush Murano chandelier. Guest rooms move between two registers: the standard categories dressed in dark-stained four-poster beds, herringbone parquet, and Artemide Tolomeo floor lamps against a warm cream ground; the suites given over to lacquered wall panelling in pale chartreuse, inset with fine brass-lined reveals that frame the headboard as architectural object. At roof level, the spa pool is lined in mosaic tile and enclosed by angled glazing that frames a roofscape view — an emphatically contemporary insertion set within a building whose ornamental surface remains, over a century on, without rival in Budapest.

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Continental Hotel Budapest

Budapest • Erzsébetváros • OPTIMIZE

avg. $169 / night

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Continental Hotel Budapest Design Editorial

Among the grandest surviving examples of Hungarian Art Nouveau civic architecture, the building at Erzsébet körút 43 began its life in 1896 as the palatial headquarters of the Fiume Insurance Company, designed by Alajos Hauszmann — the same architect responsible for the Royal Palace reconstruction on Castle Hill. Continental Hotel Budapest inhabits this heritage carefully, its most arresting interior space being the vaulted barrel-ceiling lobby bar, where Hauszmann's original plasterwork ribs fan outward in layered geometric relief above a curved white balustrade and herringbone parquet floor. A glazed atrium arch at the far end floods the room with diffused daylight, the effect somewhere between Viennese Secession and Beaux-Arts civic grandeur. The 272 guest rooms take a more contemporary direction, with large upholstered headboards in tobacco-brown leather, walnut veneer desks on gilt-finished curved legs, and shag-pile rugs softening the wood-look flooring — a palette of caramel, taupe, and warm cream that keeps the atmosphere residential rather than institutional. The restaurant works a confident Art Deco register, its elaborate parquet-on-parquet floor inlaid in contrasting timber tones beneath Tom Dixon-style pendant lights and gold-leaf ceiling medallions. Up on the roof level, a skylit spa pool sits beneath a succession of tilted glass panels that bring an almost industrial clarity to the space, lined with mosaic tile walls and Finnish sauna timber — a calm counterpoint to the ornamental exuberance below.

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Corinthia Hotel Budapest

Budapest • Erzsébetváros • OPTIMIZE

avg. $187 / night

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Corinthia Hotel Budapest Design Editorial

When Franz Joseph I still presided over a unified Austro-Hungarian empire, the Grand Hotel Royal on Budapest's Erzsébet körút was already one of Central Europe's most celebrated addresses — a six-storey Beaux-Arts palace completed in 1896 to mark the Magyar millennium, its mansard roofs and oxidised copper domes asserting civic confidence on the city's great boulevard. Restored and reopened in 2003 after a meticulous rehabilitation, the Corinthia Hotel Budapest preserved that monumental limestone facade while threading 414 rooms through its layered interior, the most extraordinary of which is the original Royal Spa: a double-height thermal pool hall lined in travertine and mosaic tile, wrought-iron gallery rails curving around arched windows filled with stained glass in amber and cobalt, the whole composition closer to a Habsburg bathhouse than anything a contemporary hotel developer would sanction. The interiors navigate two distinct registers. Standard rooms carry warm ochre walls, dark mahogany casegoods, and golden silk drapery that acknowledge the building's nineteenth-century bones without dressing them up as pastiche. The refurbished suites take a bolder position — dove-grey upholstered headboards with lacquered wood detailing, amber velvet quilts, and cobalt cushions in crushed silk, abstract canvases above the bed pulling the palette toward something more decisively contemporary. The bar, meanwhile, settles into a comfortable middle ground: deep oxblood leather tub chairs on a circular-patterned wool carpet, a mahogany back-bar lit like a private library, wrought-iron screens dividing the space with a lightness the architecture elsewhere foregoes.

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Aria Hotel Budapest

Budapest • St. Stephen's Basilica • SPLURGE

avg. $469 / night

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Aria Hotel Budapest Design Editorial

Directly across from St. Stephen's Basilica, where Hercegprímás Street cuts through Budapest's inner fifth district, a late nineteenth-century neoclassical palace — its cream stucco facade articulated by pilasters, rusticated base, and ornate ironwork balconies — was converted into the Aria Hotel Budapest, which opened in 2015 under the Library Hotel Collection. The music-themed concept organises the hotel's 49 rooms and suites across four wings, each devoted to a different genre: classical, opera, jazz, and contemporary. The interiors, designed by New York-based Adam D. Tihany, treat that conceit with enough wit to avoid novelty fatigue — exposed brick vaulting crowns the jazz suites alongside acid-green velvet headboards and pop-art canvases of guitar-playing figures, while the classical-wing rooms deploy deep-buttoned blue velvet headboards, coffered plaster ceilings, and marble chimneypieces retained from the original structure. The rooftop is where the building's position becomes undeniable: a terrace garden furnished in amber wicker and saffron-cushioned lounge chairs sits at near eye-level with the Basilica's twin bell towers and the copper-green dome that Josef Kauser completed in 1905, the view framed by clipped topiary and planters of cypress. Below, the enclosed bar space carries a different register — red carpet, tufted linen armchairs in taupe, and fringed floor lamps beside a glazed conservatory wall, the atmosphere hovering somewhere between a Budapest salon and a late-night jazz club. The building's own bones — brick arches, stone cornices, original fireplaces — do most of the architectural work throughout.