For three days, Bartók Béla Avenue (Bartók Béla út) in Újbuda turns into a full-blown street party of music, art, and food. From Friday to Sunday, November 21–23, 2025, the Bartók Béla Bál turns up the neighborhood’s best-kept secrets: restaurants, cafés, bars, galleries, and community spots rolling out special programs and wide-open doors. Expect concerts, DJs, workshops, talks, games, and a strong culinary streak that’s getting an extra push this year.
New for 2025: a unified tasting concept. Multiple venues serve event-only walk-and-eat plates crafted to match each place’s style for a flat $8.25. The lineup of programs and participating spots keeps growing; updates land on the event pages. Bring friends, tag photos on Facebook (Bartók Béla Bál) and Instagram (bartokbelabal), and drop your shots and stories under #bartokbelabal25.
Friday: Coffee, Vinyl, Live Grooves
Start with caffeine and curiosity. From 9:00 to 13:00, KORNÉL gallery-shop-café (KORNÉL galéria–bolt–kávézó) hosts Filter It, Taste New with Balázs at the counter. PupiCake runs Sweet Poems, a write-and-taste contest, 9:30–19:00. Művház spins Honda Jazz (DJ duo) 15:00–18:00, while the Bartók Quarter (Bartók-negyed) sets up a prize wheel, What’s shared is multiplied (Ami közös, az többszörös), 15:00–19:00 at Művház (Bartók Béla Avenue 33).
Coffee nerds: Nicaragua Cafe Brunch does a cupping with Impresso Roastery at 16:00, then live Brazilian and pop guitar by Zoltán Farkas at 18:30. Pont.Itt.Cafe – brunch & smoke drops the barista’s playlist 16:00–19:00. BBBKultPont opens Barbara Koltai’s exhibition Here [nor] there (Itt[sem]ott[sem]) 16:00–21:00. HADIK and Szatyor Bar & Gallery (Szatyor Bár és Galéria) book Pretty Patrik’s DJ set 18:00–21:00. Jazz lands at 19:00 with Péter Ajtai & Dominik Kosztolánszki at Tranzit by Flow, plus Űrlénykirály and Peti Galambos at MAG PUB. Caphé by Hai Nam hosts saxophonist Rita Baracskay 19:30–21:30. Nightcap: DJ Hanzee at BÉLA from 20:00, DJ Percosa at MITZI 20:00–23:00, and a Jazz Department vinyl fair at Gdansk – Bookstore Café from 21:00 with Ajtai and Kosztolánszki.
Saturday: Bejgli, Beats, and Big Conversations
La Téne POP UP stages Bejgli WEEKEND 9:00–17:00. PupiCake continues the Sweet Poems contest 10:00–19:00. MITZI runs a pasta-making workshop for all ages at 11:00 (they cook it too). Explore the local soundscape with the Bartók Quarter’s (Bartók-negyed) Sound Walk (Hangséta) 11:00–13:00 (meet at Adaptér, Bercsényi Street 10). Jazz Because plays at Pont.Itt.Cafe 14:00–16:00.
Nicaragua Cafe Brunch hosts a 16:00 talk: Four wheels, four kids, one year across North and Central America—how they ended up in Nicaragua—followed by a chat with the László family. KEG Beer Culture House (KEG Sörművház) brings DJ Bootsie’s Bartokosmos Live Mix 16:00–19:00. BBBKultPont keeps Koltai’s show open 16:00–21:00. ALLEGRO translates Taylor Swift lyrics into Hungarian at 17:00. MAG PUB offers a fermentation and pickling workshop and tasting with Lehel “Mike” Márk at 17:00; later, a self-knowledge tarot session with Alexandra Kulcsár at 19:00. Wind down with candlelit handpan at KORNÉL 17:00–18:00 (music by Zsuzsanna Kustár). Caphé by Hai Nam floats disco-to-house with TEMU 17:00–20:00. Nicaragua Cafe Brunch hands the decks to BBQBOB & Bitchimbroke with a DJ set and live performance 18:00–22:00. Night moves: DJ Nakato at MITZI 19:00, Spanish guitar and vocals at Ultramarinos Martinez 19:00–20:45, DJ Suhaid at BÉLA from 20:00, and Kiskanál, a music-dance performance at HADIK/Szatyor 21:00–21:30 with Mátyás Sirokai, Veronika Klausz, and Orsi Vágner.
Sunday: Family Vibes, Quizzes, Closers
Bejgli WEEKEND returns 9:00–17:00. KORNÉL hosts family street music 10:00–11:30 with Sztojka on electric citera. Sweet Poems runs all day at PupiCake 10:00–19:00. Pont.Itt.Cafe offers Andrea Szabadi’s Handpan & Voice 11:00–13:00. Kelet Café and Gallery (Kelet Kávézó és Galéria) features aZorka 11:00–14:00.
Afternoon games kick off at MAG PUB: foosball and darts at 16:00, while BÉLA runs Lions at BÉLA’s (OROSZLÁNOK BÉLÁÉKNÁL), a storytelling creative workshop, also at 16:00. Koltai’s exhibition stays open at BBBKultPont 16:00–21:00. KEG Beer Culture House hosts a Bartók-themed quiz night 19:00–20:30. Final sets: Bakfitty Band at BÉLA from 20:00, and János Vázsonyi & András Makk at MITZI at 20:00.
Three days. One street. Endless reasons to wander, listen, taste, and stay late. See you in Budapest, November 21–23, 2025.
