Ráday Street

Ráday Street – Ráday Soho Association

In Ráday Street most of the restaurants have long past, one of the oldest offers traditional Hungarian food and international courses. There are Italian, Steakhouse, Persian, Spanish, Indian and many Hungarian restaurants if you would like to try some extraordinary foods. You can also find famous art galleries, book stores and theatres in the street besides the restaurants. Culture and Time of high standard are the main features of the “Ráday kultucca”. Ráday Soho Association was established in 2009 with 23 members. For years they have been working on the popularization of Ráday Street and they offer many many programs for the visitors. As the construction of Metro Line 4 has finished, the entrance of Ráday Street is more beautiful than ever. Visit their festivals and programs they will worth your time! Something always happens here!

Our Mission

There is a growing cultural and gastronomic offer welcome to our visitors, which we want to further expand the spectrum to acting in its becoming a habit!

Gallery

Sights

The Parish Church of St. Francis of Assisi on Bakats Square, a neo-Romanesque building designed by Miklós Ybl, a true Renaissance architect, who himself designed the most important interior elements, the pulpit and the baptismal font.

The Library and Archives of the Ráday Collection and the Bible Museum are located at 28 Ráday Street.

The building at 11 Ráday Street, representing the noble classicism of the first half of the 19th century, is the work of József Hild, and its architectural peculiarity is the preservation of the Empire elements.

On the corner of Ráday and Eötvös streets stands the former palace tenement of Count György Károlyi, whose neo-Renaissance courtyard with Italianate loggia is a real attraction.

The ornamental fountain with the statue of the girl Korsós standing in the courtyard of the house at 47 Ráday utca.

Interesting facts about the street

The building on the corner of Ráday Street and Kálvin Square was the site of the Two Lions Inn in the 18th century, which once hosted the invincible Hungarian wonder horse Kincsem.

The church on Bakáts Square is full of fascinating details: dragons and other mythical creatures can be seen on the meticulously carved stone and woodwork, while the original, star-shaped vault decoration, not seen elsewhere, adds to the atmosphere of the lower church.

The street is home to nearly half a dozen independent theatres, which organise an annual joint theatre festival called RUSZT.

Although the original building is no longer standing, the memory of Ignác Prickler, who was the first to produce champagne in Hungary in his factory on the corner of Kinizsi Street, is preserved.

The wall of the Historical Library of the Ráday Collection is decorated with a special painting by Lucas Cranach, dating from 1508, which comes from the estate of Gedeon Ráday and depicts the Passion of St Catherine