ruin pub

English

A ruin pub in Budapest

Etymology

Calque of Hungarian romkocsma.

Noun

ruin pub (plural ruin pubs)

1. A bar, selling alcoholic beverages, inhabiting an old building left in a ramshackle condition; a popular style of pub in Budapest.
   • 2011 August 15, Mark Baker, “The 'ruin pubs' of Budapest's seventh district”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     Each ruin pub is unique, but they all share certain similarities. The main ingredient is usually an abandoned building, preferably with a vacant lot nearby to hold picnic tables and a few beer taps.

   • 2013, Kenneth Rosenberg, chapter 32, in Memoirs of a Starving Artist: An Itinerant Writer's Journey through an Unconventional Life, →ISBN, page 295:

     “Let's go to Corvinteto,” she said, mentioning the ruin pub in the old abandoned department store near her apartment. “I need a drink.”

   • 2014, Rick Steves, Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 2015: The Travel Skills Handbook, Avalon Travel, →ISBN, page 705:

     I say how much I like the shabby lounge atmosphere of a ruin pub, and Laura declares that this one, Szimpla Kert (which means “Simple Garden”), is the mecca of ruin pubs.

Synonyms

• ruin bar

Translations

bar inhabiting an old building

• Hungarian: romkocsma (hu)
• Russian: ру́ин-бар m (rúin-bar), ру́ин-паб m (rúin-pab)