Massolit Budapest Books and Café

beautiful and cosy cafe/bookstore. i love this concept of buying a book and sitting down reading it while sipping a cup of coffee. i also love the vibe of independent bookstore like this, as it gives you a very warm and welcoming feeling that you cannot find in big bookstore. the coffee was also good and the staffs were friendly. i came early on a thursday morning and just 15 mins after i arrived, the store was filled with guests and tourists, but the noise was manageable.

Cozy coffe shop. Excellent place to have an espresso and a fresh baked plumb pie. Wonderful coffee place to relax. Barista was pleasant, polite and spoke English. 100% reccomended!

Beautiful cafe, stuffed with Hungarian authors and fun clever things things to pour over in every nook and cranny. Randomly assorted new and old books, gorgeous courtyard in the back, bookshelves assorted by color. Immediately fall in love with everything about this place. And that’s not even starting on how it blew my socks off with the coffee, the plum cinnamon pie was great too. Lily, the barista, was lovely and talked at length about the books there. Great help. Cannot recommend this place enough.

To be honest I felt a little underwhelmed having seen reviews of this place, though it was busy so clearly popular so each to their own. We didn't have a drink as there wasn't anywhere to sit which is fair enough, it's quite cramped but they did have a good selection of books and the staff were friendly and knowledgeable. The "secret garden" they advertise looks frankly quite derelict but the front of the shop exterior is a great look 📚

My friends and I literally visited because of that one star "poorly peeled cucumber water with one mint leaf" comment, since we found it hilarious and intriguing 😂 I liked the place. It is busy (seemed to be a rush hour), small (but so very cute) and bit pricey (but that is to be expected from a small place like that). Our drinks and food were good and we really enjoyed a little sunny rest in the garden outside. Wait for drinks was a bit long, but it was understandable since there were a lot of people and only one worker. But we did not mind, since it was sunny and nice to sit and wait outside. Only negative thing was that my friend bought a book (that had a price on), and when paying, the worker got weird and bit frustrated, making my friend feel unconfortable and then said that "fine, I'll sell it with that price". You shouldn't make customer feel bad about your mispriced items, especially when she wasn’t even informed about that problem... But we brushed it off, since worker did seem bit overwhelmed and tired. So we regained our good mood fast, because we discovered greatest souvenirs of this trip! Notebooks with photos and texts. This notebook is such a great find and buy! All in all we had fun and I will come back in a few days.

People need stop being irresponsible giving bad reviews to businesses because they don't achieve their tiktok expectations. "The vibe was not right", "there was no place for me to sit", "the garden everybody loves its not right for my standards" are not reason for a bad review. It will definitely not harm a place like this, such a important place for its community, but can definitely destroy other places, that can be a businesses of a life dream. Please stop being so spoiled and harm businesses because you think the world its there only to serve you. This bookstore keep amazing as the first time I visited. There are definitely more places to sit and less books, but they are still able to keep the purpose of the place against the desire for perfect pictures and performative life.

What a cozy cafe with a great collection of books! The coffee is delicious, servers were nice, and you could work with laptop there. Loved their poppyseed bagels and babka!

Very cute and sitting area/ cafe was very comfortable. The staff were very friendly and the book options and prices are great, also they’re very inclusive!!