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Kaffeehaus: Cake: Sachertorte
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  • HORSCHECK
  • By HORSCHECK on March 19, 2006
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  • Sachertorte - Vienna
    Sachertorte
    by HORSCHECK
    The Sachertorte is a famous chocolate cake which was invented by the Viennese baker Franz Sacher in 1832, when he was in his second year of learning. An original Sachertorte consists of a dry chocolate dough with a thin layer of aprikot jam, which is all covered in a chocolate icing.
    The trademark for the "Original Sachertorte" was registered by the well known Hotel Sacher, which was built at the end of the 19th century by the son of Franz Sacher.

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  • Ekaterinburg
  • Updated By Ekaterinburg on January 3, 2007
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  • A Difficult Choice ! - Vienna
    A Difficult Choice !
    by Ekaterinburg
    Going to a cafe in Vienna is a pleasurable experience on all kinds of levels. For the price of a cup of coffee you can stay as long as you like and people-watch to your hearts content. Some of the cafes have live classical music and many are in themselves, architectural showpieces. It's very hard though, to have just a cup of coffee in any of the cafes here. In fact it would be a travesty because everybody owes it to themselves to savour the local specialities. This is the excuse I made to indulge in mountains of calories that normally I would avoid like the plague. The biggest problem is actually selecting which gateau to indulge in. The Sacher-torte is all chocolate with just a tiny layer of fruit preserve under the top icing.This slightly dilutes the sweetness. More exciting by far for me is the dobosotorte (spelling ?). It's the one in the picture with all the tiny layers of caramel frosting and the hard, glazed toffee icing on top. I actually can't think of any word good enough to desctibe it ! The apple strudel is also superb and not quite so heavy. To accompany your cake there is a bewildering selection of coffees, the most popular, I think , being the melange. The coffee is nice but the hot chocolate is divine !

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    Kaffeehaus: Cafe society
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  • TheWanderingCamel
  • Updated By TheWanderingCamel on October 11, 2006
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  • Cafe Central - Vienna
    Cafe Central
    by TheWanderingCamel
    Coffee has been a way of life in Vienna since the 17th century. Legend says it was the would-be Turkish invaders who brought their coffee beans with them and left sacks of them behind when they retreated from their seige of the city who started the city's love affair with the bitter bean. (The croissant is said to have first been baked by the city's bakers as a celebration of that defeat, its shape a replica of the Ottoman crescent) Whatever the truth of that, by the more leisurely days of the late 19th century, there were over 500 cafes in the city, and even today there are over 200.

    Cafes are places to linger in, a home from home, somewhere to meet a friend to talk or play chess or cards, or to come on your own to read the newspaper or a book, stay as long as you like even if you only order a single coffee and sit on it all afternoon. You can have a meal, or enjoy a glass of wine. Food is fairly simple, and if you're after a decadent cake you'll need to head for a cafe-konditorei.
    Cafes like the Central were once very clubby, different cafes attracting their own particular like-minded clientele. Those days are not quite gone, but the old-style cafes themselves are dwindling in number as city property values rise and the pace of life increases.

    Coffee is still served Viennese-style, strong and black with some variation of whipped cream topping being a favourite, but a "Kapuziner" is akin to a cappucino and an espresso is an espresso wherever you are though here a "Mokka" will give you a good caffeine hit too.

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    Kaffeehaus: Cafe Central
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  • By croisbeauty on November 20, 2006
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  • Cafe Central - Vienna
    Cafe Central
    by croisbeauty
    Like they say "be Roman in Rome", so don't miss to visit one of numerous cafes in Vienna among which Cafe Central, situated in Herrengasse, is probably the most famous. The traditional Viennese Kaffeehaus share a common iconography of marble-topped tables and booths and bentwood chairs.
    Since the turn of the 19th century, Cafe Central is Vienna's principal intellectual hangout. Today, however, the clientele is almost exclusively tourists or visitors to the town, admiring pseudo-Gothic decorations inside the cafe.

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    Kaffeehaus: Cafe Culture
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  • Jmill42
  • By Jmill42 on March 18, 2004
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  • Inside Cafe Central - Vienna
    Inside Cafe Central
    by Jmill42
    Vienna more than any other city outside of Italy and Paris has a booming cafe culture. In the past, the cafes would host some of the more notable literary figures of the day, and still have an air of prestige about them, that the tiny cafes of Paris and Rome do not.

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    Kaffeehaus: coffee
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  • margaretvn
  • By margaretvn on May 21, 2003
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  • Coffee and coffee drinking is an institution in Vienna, so do not just ask for "a cup of coffee"
    .....You have to know your coffee in Vienna!
    for example:
    a melange is a blend of coffee and hot milk
    Schwarzer is a black coffee (large or small)
    Schlagobers is a strong black coffee werved with plain or whipped cream.

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    Kaffeehaus: coffee!
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  • By margaretvn on May 21, 2003
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  • The Viennese coffee house is a wonderful place to rest after serious sightseeing. The coffee is not cheap but after you have ordered you can sit as long as you like and people watch or there are often newspapers available. The coffee is always served with a glass of water.
    It is said that the first coffee houses opened in 1683 after the defeat of the Turks. The coffee house as we see it date from the late 18th century.

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    Kaffeehaus: Esterhazy cake
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  • Gili_S
  • By Gili_S on March 21, 2005
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  • Kaffeehaus - Vienna
    by Gili_S
    You must know by now that I enjoyed very much the Vienna brewery and coffee shops. Well, I also enjoy the cakes here and one of my favourites is this one: the Esterhazy cake.

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    Kaffeehaus: Coffee
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  • By Gili_S on March 21, 2005
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  • Kaffeehaus - Vienna
    by Gili_S
    I found out that the coffee quality in Vienna is just excellent. If I went to old classic café or local modern one the coffee was always excellent, hot and tasty.

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    Kaffeehaus: Taste the best coffee of the world
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  • pili
  • By pili on October 26, 2003
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  • Sacher Cafe - Vienna
    Sacher Cafe
    by pili
    The coffe house is an integral part of Viennese life. Virtually on every corner you will find one of these oasis for an excellent cup of Austrian coffee which is the best in the world.-

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