“It can be a cosy, nice tasting and fine smelling pub where we can meet famous people while listening to good music and sip on good drinks. It can be an event house with the most diverse concerts and programmes from punk to jazz, from blues to techno. Or it can—what matters most to the team of Pécsi Est—be simply a good place where you could go for a thousand good reasons, but mostly you just go because you feel like it. Because you like it there. You go there to supplement some social vitamins. It is our openly expressed intention to give something to our guests, that is missing more and more from the World, unfortunately.”

Concerts in the summer are held in Káptalan Garden located in Múzeum utca.

So it might not be surprising that the legendary institution is now officially a historical site of Hungarian popular music, as the impossibly named Sub-programme Supporting the Preservation of the Popular Music Heritage of Hungary as part of the National Cultural Fund’s Hangfoglaló Programme Promoting Popular Music has given Szenes the status of “memorial site of popular music history” as part of its “Popular Music Educational Trail” launched in 2015.