The Cha-Cha-Cha was forced to shut its doors in the autumn of 2007 when work started on Budapest's fourth underground. It reopened early in 2008 at a venue on Bajcsy-Zsilinsyky Street, near Nyugati Station, under the name Twelve Inch. Now the "Chacha" team is opening another café in the old cafeteria of Déli Station, where the floor-to-ceiling windows will give guests a panoramic view of one of the city's biggest parks and the Castle District. The new venue has been dubbed DPU Cha-Cha-Cha, "DPU" being both the abbreviation for Déli Station, in Hungarian, as well as for Disco-Progressive-Underground.
The café's management has tried to preserve the original features of the self-service cafeteria, making the venue not just retro, but true-to-life retro. Naturally, the café also accommodates the new: the giant granite pillars provide the space for contemporary works "in the spirit of the chacha", and there is a disco ball.
Author: Éva Kelemen / Photo: Dániel Kováts
