Cuisine Guide
My favour as a hobby cook and passionate gourmet includes researching good local restaurants and gastronomic niches, which don’t always lie along well-trodden paths.
The most exciting culinary mile in the city is probably the one around the Naschmarkt. It’s a cosmopolitan mix of local farmer’s market, oriental bazaar and East Asian exotica. Here, the Orient blends with the Occident, the gherkin trader alongside the kebab stall, the cosy bistro next to the sushi bar. It is a real joy to soak up the aromas and colours here, to catch the swells and waves of different smells and tastes.
The Viennese enjoy their food! It’s always time for a good meal and a glass of wine in Vienna. The Viennese have four gastronomic pillars they simply cannot do without: the coffeehouse, the bistro, the wine tavern and the sausage stand.
The gourmet and gastrosopher Brillat-Savarin said “The discovery of a new dish is more important to the happiness of humanity than the discovery of a new star".
”Have fun discovering! Cheers and bon appetit!
Barbara Ludwig
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Leschanz - the king of Viennese chocolate
This shop calling itself “Schokoladekönig” continues a special type of Austrian tradition, chocolate making. Open the door to a place full of sweet magic, dive into a world of handmade, exquisite delights.
Freisingergasse 1, 1010 Vienna
Restaurant Ludwig van
Among many other buildings in Vienna, Ludwig van Beethoven lived in an old apartment of this house, overlooking the courtyard. Here, an old Beisl (Viennese-style pub) has been given a new life. At Ludwig van Viennese cuisine is being served with a modern and often unfamiliar twist – far from Wiener Schnitzel and the likes. Enjoy his innovative cuisine, accompanied by some of the best wines…
Laimgrubengasse 22, 1060 Vienna
Bildrechte: © Sven Fargo 2016
Café Sperl
Viennese coffee house flair in its most original form can be found just around the corner from us at Café Sperl in Gumpendorferstraße. Since its opening in 1880, this beautiful fin de siècle café has enjoyed enormous popularity, especially among actors, musicians and singers, not least because of its proximity to the Theater an der Wien and the Semper Depot, the studio of the Academy of Fine Arts.
Gumpendorfer Str. 11, 1060 Vienna
Copyright: © WienTourismus/Peter Rigaud
Ma Belle
The new Ma Belle bistro and bar brings a piece of France to Vienna. Denisa Vikartovska runs the place together with her husband Niklas Friedl - the two have already made a name for themselves in gastronomy with their liqueur "Ingwerer" and have now taken over the place, renovated it and given it French charm.
Only 2 minutes from the hotel.
Gumpendorfer Str. 16, 1060 Vienna
Fotocredits: © Ma Belle
Café Diglas
A classic Viennese café in a good location on Wollzeile.
Here you will find Viennese classics (the Wiener Schnitzel is especially recommended), lovingly prepared pastries and friendly service.
Wollzeile 10, 1010 Vienna
Copyright: © WienTourismus/Christian Stemper
Demel
This is where the world-famous Viennese art of confectionery is taken to the extreme.
The café has always been a meeting place for the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy. As you enter on the ground floor, you will find the show kitchen. Fascinating how wonderful cakes are created from simple ingredients.
Kohlmarkt 14, 1010 Vienna
Copyright: © WienTourismus/Peter Rigaud
Cantinetta Antinori
Classic Tuscan cuisine in a dignified ambience awaits you here within throwing distance of St. Stephen's Cathedral.
For years a meeting place for Vienna's haute volee, the restaurant has recently undergone a facelift and now shines in new splendour.
Excellent pasta and especially the huge bistecca are the cornerstones of the menu. The Antinori family themselves provide the perfect wine accompaniment.
Jasomirgottstraße 3/5, 1010 Vienna
Copyright: © Cantinetta Antinori
Café Prückel
The Prückel, a traditional Viennese coffee house on Stubenring, is part of many a Viennese's philosophy of life. The ambience is authentic from the 1950s, here you can read the newspaper for hours over coffee and cake, listening to the buzz of conversation in the background.
Stubenring 24, 1010 Vienna
Copyright: © Café Prückel
Lugeck
The Viennese tavern (Wirtshaus) is back, that's the concept of the eponymous restaurant at the Lugeck, and it's true. The classic Viennese tavern shines in new splendour. The traditional house is run by the famous Schnitzelwirt Figlmüller, who runs his main house just around the corner. The Figlmüller brothers have painstakingly reconstructed Viennese tavern culture.
Benches and chairs made of solid beech wood, chequered formica and green enamel, put together by architect Georg Eichinger (he also furnished our Lvdwig Bar), emphasise the classic Wirtshaus charm.
Lugeck 4, 1010 Vienna
Fotocredits: © Lugeck
Nautilus
Mediterranean fish restaurant with neighbouring fish shop, specialises in the freshest line-caught fish from the sea. Great atmosphere with top quality, affordable and totally fresh.
Naschmarkt 673, across from Linke Wienzeile 18, 1040 Vienna
Cafe Bar Restaurant Amacord
This café, also a nice informal restaurant, serving classical dishes of Viennese cuisine, is a hangout for artists and other creative personalities based in the neighborhood, and serves them as an extension to their living rooms.
Rechte Wienzeile 15, 1040 Vienna
Szigeti Sektcomptoir
Szigeti vineyard in Burgenland produces a leading Austrian Sekt (sparkling wine) and serves its own brand only at this tiny, wood-panelled wine bar. As it’s located just a few blocks from the Naschmarkt, shoppers with bulging grocery bags often spill onto the sidewalk enjoying a tipple or four. It rarely offers much elbow room but the bubbly spirit is intoxicating!
Note the early closing times – and its shop selling bottles a few doors down.
Schleifmühlgasse 19 + 23, 1040 Vienna
Zum Schwarzen Kameel
A true jewel, a mix of bar, high end restaurant, wine cellar and delicatessen. Known throughout town for their original and traditional sandwiches, which you can enjoy at their outdoor seating or order to takeaway! Offering finest wines, this establishment was founded in 1618 and was originally a spice and wine store. It developed into a unique restaurant with it's Jugendstil interior and facade. A wonderful place to buy some culinary souvenir from Vienna, including their chocolate!
Bognergasse 5, 1010 Vienna
Palmenhaus
Originally commissioned in 1901 as a palm house for Vienna’s former imperial palace, Palmenhaus is a luminous restaurant which now thrives inside the historic structure.
Not forgetting its namesake, tropical plants still populate the gargantuan greenhouse, as do Vienna’s tourists who’ve arrived to sample the staple drink—espresso with whipped cream—in a brilliantly lit space.
Burggarten 1, 1010 Vienna
Copyright: Palmenhaus im Burggarten©WienTourismus Karl Thomas
Justizcafé
This actually is the cafeteria of a government building in a beautiful huge palace overlooking the Ringstraße. Admire the impressive entrance hall, then take the lift to the top floor (D). With a unique view across Vienna, you can eat amazingly affordably (self-service, 3 menus daily), drink coffee, eat cake or simply have a refreshing Prosecco or spritzer on the terrace high above the neighboring parliament.
Schmerlingplatz 10, 1010 Vienna
Bitzinger Würstelstand (Sausagestand next to Albertina)
This iconic Viennese sausage stand, often called the “Little Sacher” for its neighbor, the famous hotel, is as much as part of Vienna as the Giant Ferris Wheel or St. Stephen’s Cathedral.
Here opera-goers dip their Käsekrainer into sweet mustard and chat with newspaper traders, night-owls meet early risers – throughout the day you can experience the very best of Viennese sausage culture while enjoying rubbing elbows with bank directors as well as students.
in front of Albertina, Augustinerstraße 1, 1010 Vienna
