Here we are, the day after Christmas, when all the stores say nothing on their web sites or windows about being closed…but they all are. “We take no holidays!” except the one that everyone but someone and me must know happens automatically on the 26th. Strange, because a lot of places were open on the […]
Viennese cuisine
Figlmuller, Vienna
Festive Christmas luncheon! Nothing says Christmas to me like thinly-pounded veal cutlets, and nothing says thinly-pounded Wieners like Figlmuller – though how much of their popularity is due to the food and how much is due to the marketing is an interesting question. As an aside, I enjoyed the atmosphere here tremendously, in mo small […]
Oswald & Kalb, Vienna
Hola. My name is Kalb, but you can call me Oswald for short. Hey, ‘kalb’ means ‘veal’, and the poster to the right of the door (very festive, lads!) said something like “The best wiener in Wiener!” so I think they rate their schnitzel highly. It was Christmas Eve, someone was sick, and I still […]
Cafe Central, Vienna
I was lucky enough to have taken a picture of Cafe Central at night before the afternoon we went, which was lucky considering I forgot to get an exterior shot. Although that pales in comparison to my failure to load a memory card into the camera the following night… This cafe has an illustrious history […]
Gasthaus Pöschl, Vienna
Nothing that I read about Viennese restaurants or cuisine really got me excited about the eating component of this trip. I was just kind resigned to eating stodgy food, and drinking wine, and eating cakes, and that was cool. Plus we’re staying in the inner city, and I imagine it’s pretty touristy and pricey around […]
Winegut Mayer am Pfarrplatz, Vienna
In the summer, ‘everyone’ in Vienna goes to Heurigen, which are ‘wine taverns’ that serve new wine from their own vineyards. Of course I have no idea who actually goes to them – probably old men who want to get wasted on cheap wine, eat a lot of fatty food, and sing along to the […]
Cafe Restaurant Rezidenz Schonbrunn, Vienna
This is a suitable facade for a cafe, yes. Yes it is. One could get used to cafeing in cafes of this ilk. I’m thinking that this is operated by the Querfeld family, the founders of Cafe Landtmann; at any rate, it’s part of their group, which also includes Cafe Mozart and a few other […]
Konditorei Oberlaa, Vienna
Getting back to the whole ‘cafe’ thing, and more particularly the Konditorei or confectionery aspect of it, here’s Oberlaa. We saw this place on our first night, opposite the Christmas tree seller in Neuer Markt (and I love creatively misinterpreting German, so this makes me wonder where der Older Markt is). Then it turned out […]
Weibel’s Wirsthaus, Vienna
Tell me the truth, is this not the wurst exterior you’ve ever seen? No, I thought not. Festive too. And I make light of the fact that it’s a ‘wirsthaus’, not a ‘wursthaus’, which had me confused and expecting lots of sausage. In fact, it’s a well-rated traditional fine-dining sort of restaurant that’s part of […]