Cafes, bars and restaurants

A coffee house and restaurant like a metaphor for Vienna itself: history and tradition with a veneer of surprising flair and a side order of contemporary art. Lampshades … [Read more...] about Café Diglas Wollzeile

For a while, I mentioned the Sluka site on Kärntner Straße as a smaller footnote to the older location by the Rathaus. But the remarkable interior décor never fails to impress … [Read more...] about Sluka (Kärntner Straße)

Café Ritter in Ottakring has been closed "for renovations" since 2023 (with no reopening date yet known to me). Media reports suggested a need for financial restructuring. … [Read more...] about Café Ritter Ottakring

With its many embankment walls, the Donaukanal river channel forms a natural canvas for street artists. And no self-respecting urban waterfront would be seen without its fair … [Read more...] about The Donaukanal: street art, bars and restaurants

Another authentic gastronomic adventure in Vienna is to drop into a Heuriger. But what exactly is a Heuriger? And what makes one such a distinctive experience? Jump … [Read more...] about The Heuriger

When they say Vienna has a long history of coffee house culture, they mean really long. Café Frauenhuber, for example, is 200 years old and lives in a building put up in the … [Read more...] about Café Frauenhuber