(212) 866-4230
1030 Amsterdam Ave
New York,
NY
10025
40.8034
-73.9637
Neighborhoods: Uptown, Morningside Heights
What People Are Saying About Hungarian Pastry Shop
The Editor
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Citysearch
In Short – A dozen or so wall lamps offer low reading light for students who come to this comfortable, old-style campus coffee shop. There can't be too many places left in New York that serve dobos torte--nine layers of yellow cake and chocolate buttercream standing tall on a plank of mahogany caramel--and rigo janci, a Hungarian-style chocolate mousse. But they're both here, along with hamantaschen, linzer torte, sacher torte and Black Forest cake.
07/15/09
Amazing
by Leticius
Hungarian boasts great dessert and amazing coffee. It's a fantastic place to come for reading, writing, or catching up with a friend or two (don't come here with a huge group or the regulars will be irritated, it's a fairly quiet place).
- Pros: bottomless, strong coffee, great staff, quiet, dim
- Cons: Can get overcrowded at certain hours
12/02/07
A great place to hang out
by georgiahy
My favorite thing about this place is that there is no music! Hurray! So you can sit (for as long as you can keep your mind off everyone else's conversations) and read unmolested by someone else's music. Even after I moved out of the area I always make the extra effort to stop by with a book or the paper. A plus is the coffee drinks and European pastries. (and I'm not even a student, a 30-year old mom in fact) G
11/18/07
Croissants to die for!
by gardens4me
I've been coming to the Hungarian Pastry Shop since 1969...and even though I don't live in NYC anymore, it is one of the first places I visit when I am back in my old stomping grounds! What a thrill to find that, over and over again...it has NOT CHANGED! Same wonderful croissants, same apricot jam in a little cup...same endless coffee. And if it's the afternoon, you might try the Rigo Jancsi, a wonderful pastry, very dark chocolate, very rich, or the Dobos Torte, a many layered, chocolate butter cream cake! Wish I still lived close by!
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