Starbucks, Costa Coffee and others to come to Budapest

Starbucks BudapestPages with news about Budapest have in the latest days written about Costa Coffee coming to Budapest. The Italian-started, UK-based Costa Coffee, will open their first coffee shop in Budapest, in Vaci Utca, in early December (which means now). Some pages reported that a Starbucks will be opened as well, though this is probably wrong… Starbucks will only arrive around march/april in 2009, hopefully. With both actors entering the Hungarian market we can be prepared for good coffee and war between the giants. For those who have visited our “Fastfood” page it is possible to see that we have been waiting for Starbucks for a long time, and hopefully we do not have to wait so much anymore.

Lately we mentioned that Cavalli has come to Budapest, next Monday Vertu is supposed to open, and in the near future the fashion shops Dolce & Gabbana, Emporio Armani and menswear retailers Zilli and Z Zegna are supposed to come to the city as well. Sounds great, doesnt it? These shops will be located in the Fashion Street area and in the Andrassy Út which is getting more and more exclusive. Though, I was surprised today as I read in an article (read it here) that there are days when Louis Vuitton and Gucci does not sell anything at all in Budapest. But, I guess with their prices they do not need to seel to many articles a month to survive!

TicketPro Hall of Fame

I just dropped by the TicketPro page yesterday and noticed their Hall of Fame page, presenting their most popular events throughout history (or the pages with information about a concert/event that has been most visited). I realized the Depeche Mode is really popular, as it is on first (2009 concert), second (2006 June concert) and third place (2006 March concert). After this the list is as follows:
Popular concerts  in Budapest
4. Guns ‘n’ Roses, 2006. 05. 31.
5. Rolling Stones, 2007. 07. 20.
6. George Michael, 2007. 05. 23.
7. Coldplay, 2008. 09. 23.
8. BODIES…, 2008. 05. 24.
9. Robbie Williams, 2006. 07. 19.
10. Cirque du Soleil, 2007. 10. 31.

Mamma Mia in Budapest

TicketPro has just announced that there will be four Mamma Mia concerts/shows in Budapest. The show will be in Papp László Budapest Sportaréna. The dates are:

2009. april 10. 20:00
2009. april 11. 15:30
2009. april 11. 20:00
2009. april 12. 15:30

There is not much information available, but tickets can be bought here. We will write more about this later as we get more information. For those interested there will also be an “ABBA – The Show” event in February.

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