Budapest Ruin Bars Tour Ultimate Nightlife Guide in Budapest Hungary

Today is Ross's birthday so we're going to hit up some ruin bars in Budapest. Come with us as we sink way too many beers. First stop is Retox for happy hour martinis. Me and my martini. And we're looking forward to showing you all of these little bars as we go on a bit of a Ross's birthday tour of Budapest. Yeah so far so good, like three dollars for a cocktail Australian. Is this your birthday jig? Jig, jig for the birthday. Although they're now super popular in Budapest, ruin bars only officially came about in the early 2000s. Mostly in the Jewish quarter there were still many ruined buildings remaining after the war. Some of these sites were filled with eclectic second-hand furniture and turned into the ruin bars we know today. All right so ruin bars are fascinating. It's got a Mexican theme and they have a taqueria in here but they also do craft beers. So actually a buddy back in Australia, I promised him that I would give him a shout out. Josh, hello. He loves craft beers. Well this is an amazing red ale. It's as good as any beer session we've ever had in Australia and the total of this was $7.50. In Australia we would pay $12 for one of these. Cheers. We have a bean taco, chicken tacos and a hot dog. I actually need some beer food right now. That's tasty, that is a tasty bean mix. Get the bean tacos if you come here. Oh I'm not sharing. Oh look at that, look at that. Cheesy, cheesy beany goodness. You haven't been here until you've had the bean taco. Oh no more drinks. This is the chicken taco. Oh chicken taco. I quite like the shell. They were originally soft and then I think they're flat toasted. Quite spicy tomato. Hot spicy. Yum. Like I think it's a wheat beer from what I took and Bex got, what do you got? Something dark. I'm thinking dark ale. It looks pretty. Maybe a stout. Why are you drinking my beer? We're going to test it. Oh this is your beer. Hey. All right well that's delicious Bex, you're on to a winner. Oh that's great too, wheat beer. I could knock these down by the Stein. Okay we're moving because we think this will be a bit of a shelter from the wind. I like this place. Yeah me too. Yeah this would be a local for us like if we lived in Budapest. It's a bit quieter, there's not like a lot of music or anything but really good quality beers. A bit cheaper than the other places we've been to. Actually like crazy cheap for delicious beer. Cheers. Cheers. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Next. Zimpla. This is a simple bar. Let's do it. But it doesn't look very simple. Zimpla, the original and probably the most popular ruin bar in Budapest. It's by far the biggest, busiest and had the most buzz. Really random stuff going on in this one. Like who's this guy? Their beers are delicious though. I just got an IPA, one of their local IPAs and it was like maybe five dollars which is still really cheap right across the sea. So we're actually outdoors again now. I can actually feel the rain. It's raining a little bit out here. I can feel the rain in Africa. Yeah. I mean if we were in Africa for sure. This place is huge. You can see, I don't know if you could see those, going up those stairs there. There's this whole upstairs section. The whole place is packed. It's so busy. Two of these. Look at this. Let's shoot. One, two, ten. Oh wow. That is amazing. That's my favorite shot ever. We had to leave at some point. Turns out if you get here now, you actually need to line up and show your passport. So we didn't have to go through any of that. I'll try to calculate what time we put it on the screen now. Maybe. I'm just trying to calculate which bike I can steal so that we can ride home a little bit quicker. Just note to viewers, we did not steal a bike. So Ross just called to me from down the street and I thought we were going home but it turns out we have one more stop. Peter said drink this as fast as you can. Try and break the Hungarian record. It's 40 percent. For those that know me, I am about 40 percent alcohol so this will be okay but it smells stronger. It smells stronger than 40 percent. It smells like apricot. Oh yeah. It does actually. A little bit. Oh but it fits behind the camera. And cheers to that. Cheers. It's to Hungary. We love Hungary. Oh yeah that's good. Oh that is apricot guys. That's alcohol or apricot. I don't know. It's good. I really like it with the olive. You need the olive. We need an olive foam on the top. It's not good enough just to have the olive. Not anymore. We're past that. As a society, we've progressed way beyond. There you have it. Cocktails with Ross. If you want to see more cocktails of Ross across Europe, drop us some comments. This is good. Martini. I don't even know what it tastes like. It's clear. Clear alcoholic olive. I won't drink it all at once. Irresponsible. Who thought 36 would be this fun? Did I say? I meant 26. Who thought 26 would be this much fun? Cheers.