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!

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!

06/12/07

nice surprise

by woodsrow

I know this city pretty well I have lived here for all my life and it is rare that I should come across something that is... well... rare (the food was cooked, if that is what you think I mean.) This rustic pastry shop with its endless cups of coffee was a pleasant surprise. A friend of mine told me to meet her there and when I didn?t know where it was she was ready to beat me up. It dates back a while and is one of the few remnants of Columbia?s beatnik era, the strudel is a bit heavy, but then it is strudel. I mean if you want something lighter they have great macaroons and I think their trade mark is the shoe horn almond cookie. I highly recommend this place if you have an afternoon to spend with a friend and would like to sit and talk and never be bothered.

12/14/05

Sour Cherry Strudel!!

by debreiner

This is the only place left in Manhattan to get authentic Hungarian sour cherry strudel - the best!

07/31/05

An Upper West Side Gem!

by phattums

By far my favorite place on the upper west side. Perfect place to go sit, read, talk, and drink great coffee all day (free refils - yay!). The incredible plain croissants are soft, so buttery, and come with a tiny paper cup of apricot jam. The hot chocolate is also a stand-out, and their other pastries are all well above average. Go when the weather's nice and sit outside, where you'll get the perfect view of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Great coffee, great laid back atmosphere, great pastries.

• Pros: perfect atmosphere, great coffee, great food
• Cons: dim light in parts

03/05/05

Enjoyed my visit

by jonathand1018

I stumbled upon this bakery as I initially planned on going somewhere else. I was pleased with the prices. Very reasonable. Not to many places in NYC where $1.80 gets you unlimited refills. I had a slice of carrot cake for $3.25. Was disappointed that it was quite dry. Frosting was excellent though. Also liked the idea that you could buy single cookies for $0.35 and not nescessarily by the lb. Tried a few and was very pleased. Ample seating. Would go again.

• Pros: cheap, good coffee
• Cons: only accepted cash

The lit-crit pit stop of Morningside Heights.

by Contributor

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.

08/01/04

Cute Pastry Place

by nevedovsky

The style of pastries and variety of Eastern European style pastries, particularly the Sacher Torte, make this place stand out from a lot of the other places that offer baked goods. You will find better desserts at the Hotel Sacher in Vienna, but they're not worth the cost of the airplane tickets. As for this place, it's good food for a reasonable price, and something a little different from what you get most of the time in New York. Definitely head up and try the place if you can.

• Pros: Good desserts, Different