Places to eat in Austria

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Mozartkugeln is a standart austrian confect that you can buy in every supermarket
and souvenirshop nowadays: small balls in red silverfoil. BUT these are not the real, original Mozartkugeln, because they would be packed in lightblue silverfoil like in my main photo here : Konditorei FÜRST in Salzburg was the home of the first Mozartkugel and it is still produced there. In 1890 they had won a gold medail at the world exhibition for them, but unfortunatly they did not think of registering the name and so you will find various different "original Mozartkugeln" nowadays from various other companies.

Favorite Dish: The original Mozartkugeln, made by Konditorei Fürst - they are packed in blue Try it and you will taste the difference against other mozartkugeln:
The chocolate-cover is much softer,( but might also make you sticky fingers )

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In Salzburg, next to the airport you will find the so-called Hangar-7, that is the Red Bull - Museum and Hangar 7 is also a giant hall made of glass, and in the centre of that hall, hanging right down under the ceiling you will find one of the most spectacular bars on earth: THREESIXTY BAR: a bar hanging directely under the heaven and giving you at the same time a great view of the sky above and of the museum below the bar. Even the floor of that bar is made of glass !
Threesixty bar is open daily from 06.30 p.m. as an aperitiv-bar and will close at the same time as the IKARUS-restaurant.
Every friday and saturday it will be open untill 03.00a.m., just like the Mayday-Bar.

Favorite Dish: To be honest, I did not try it out yet, it is also a bit out of my range of money, and you certainly would have to dress there formerly or at least "trendy" ...

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Pataschinkenpfandl is one of my personal favorite restaurants in Vienna and we also had several VT-meetings there already ! "Palatschinke" is the austrian name for pancake and in this restaurant you get a really wide choice of them, including one of the best "Kaiserschmarren" I ever had. This restaurant is in the very centre of Vienna, in a side-street without car-trafic and it also has tables in the street during summer ! There are 2 entrances to that restaurant : one in Koellnerhofgasse and one in Grashofgasse4
All dishes are explained in English and French as well !
Palatschinkenpfandl is open daily 10.00a.m.-00.00 midnight
10 minutes of Free internet for each guest !!
ask for the internet-coin at the kitchen !!

Favorite Dish: This restaurant has a large choice of dishes, including 6-8 "Tagesmenues" with a main course + the choice of one of 5 deserts or 5 types of soup and of course you can get it also with soup+desert. Take a look at my pictures : I had a delicious pumkin-soup first (without pic) then a pan full of roasted potatoes, fried turkey&chicken & salad and for desert I had 2 pancakes, filled with sweet chestnuts and chocolate-topping. Such a "Tagesmenu" is 10,50 Euros , when you choose any soup OR desert with it !
When you choose desert PLUS soup, you pay just 12 Euros.
Kaiserschmarren is my favorite meal, it is some sort of "thick pancake" with raisins and cut into small pieces - I had mine with "Zwetschken-roester" (thick plum-stew) for 7 Euros - see my main picture !
They have a total of 8 different "Kaiserschmarren" : with apples, cinnamon, poppy-seeds etc.etc.etc.
For drinks you may get also Milk, milkshakes, yoghurt and some great austrian wines in addition to the ordinary soft-drinks and beers.
Unfortunely this kind of Tagesmenu is available in German ONLY, this is because they print a new one every day and it does not make sense to have it as well printed in english daily for new. All other menus are printed in several languages !

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A typical "Wiener Kaffeehaus" is a must when visiting Vienna. You will find small marble-tables and thonet-chairs, lots of newspapers to read and coffee is always served with an extra glass of fresh water.
This cafe and restaurant INside the KHM, the Kunsthistorisches museum is a Must for its great architecture and for delicious coffee, cakes & dishes ! The cafe is situated right under the big dome and that way it might be the most beautiful place to have a coffee in Austria !
Prices are a bit higher than in an ordinary cafe, BUT the quality is also very good and the architecture is for free. Unfortunately there is NO way to get to this place without having payed the entrance-fee for the museum first !! There is a similar cafe in Naturhistorisches Museum,but the architecture is a tiny bit less ornate, but there you will find the biggest crab you have ever seen, it was once a present for the emperor sent by the king of Japan. (see it in my last pic!)

Favorite Dish: The Cafe in Kunsthistorisches Museum is a good place to taste austrian cakes : my favorite cake there was Esterhazy-Torte : a cake with hazlenut-filling and on top it has a glazing of white sugar with a chocolate-pattern in it. Coffee is made "the austrian way" strong and with a foam on top.
Every thursday between 06.30p.m. and 10.00p.m.
you can taste there a large buffet of Viennese specialities:
hors d'oevres, hot meals and sweet Austrian deserts
for a fixed price of 34 Euros per person
Eat what-ever you like & as much as you can
That price does NOT include the ticket to the museum!!
Make reservations at their telephone/fax-number below !!

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Demel was one of the few the official backeries of the emperor and who-ever delivered some of their goods/products to the court was allowed to call himself
K&K Hoflieferant*
or K&K Hofzuckerbaecker etc.
Demel still has the original interior of that time and it is no problem at all, to just take a look inside without buying anything. Next to the entrance you will find their choice of cakes on a buffet.
Decorations that you will find in the windows (like in my 2nd and 5th pic) are always made of sugar and marcipan and will change according to season and actual events !

Favorite Dish: Demel is certainly worth a visit: for a hot chocolate they will not take an instant-mix but will boil the milk slowly and put in pieces of chocolate and stirr, until finished and they also have the original Sachertorte-recepee - and are allowed to call it "original Sachertorte" as the mentally sick son of Madame Sacher sold the original recepee to Demel about 100 years ago and it looks a bit different, as the thin layer of jam that you find in the "original Sachertorte" made by the Hotel Sacher is missing in Demel's recepee and they also use a triangle chocolate-stamp on top of their Sachertorte instead of the round stamp used by Hotel Sacher.

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Schnitzelhaus is an austrian chain of " fast-food-restaurants " serving mainly Wiener Schnitzel for a cheap price and in really very GOOD QUALITY !!
Plenty of their restaurants are to be found all over Austria and Germany, mostly in sidestreets. You go to the counter, order your meal and can watch how it is prepared quickly. They have tables there or you take it away, the price stays the same.

Favorite Dish: You will get a Giant Wiener Schnitzel for just 5,50 Euro - and it will mostly be bigger than the plate where it is served.
potatoe salad, cucumber salad, rice or french fries are 1,30 Euros extra each
0,5l beer is 2,oo
0,5l soft drinks 1,90

And if you simply want to have a snack or try Wiener Schnitzel - take a " Schnitzelsemmel " - a roll filled with a small Schnitzel for just 2,20 euros

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Cafe Central is a place I always recommend for my guests, at least to take a look inside for the very special ambiente and the great architecture with colorful columns, marble-tables, Thonet-chairs and cosy benches. You will find this Cafe & restaurant in the Palais Ferstl - and it is a typical Kaffeehaus with a very long tradition, dating back to the 19th century. They serve all sorts of Coffee and some cakes, and the coffee is of course served with a small glass of fresh water. They also serve small dishes for lunch and dinner - but on the small tables of a Kaffeehaus eating dinner is not always a big pleasure.
This is not a cheap place, but worth to take a look inside at least !

Favorite Dish: I normally take a "Grosser Brauner" - a strong coffee with a bit of milk.

Tasting Icecream in Vienna is a MUST and Tichy is the very best icecream-parlor in Vienna in my opinion and by multiple experience !
Be prepared to have a bunch of people ahead of you at the take-away counter where you can choose among more than 20 different tastes of Icecream.
When you are looking for a table to enjoy your icecream, it might be hard to find some free chairs, as they will be occupied withing seconds on an ordinary day in summertime.
Prices are quite cheap, ice-cups are mostly between 4 euros and 8 euros
They are open only in summertime
in 2010 they start in march 12th
mostly untill Oct. 26th
they are open from 10.00am - 10.45pm

Favorite Dish: My personal favorits are :
Kastanieneis ( chestnuts-icecream )
Coup Tropical ( a really big portion of fresh fruit-salad including cumquats, mangos, lychees etc. )
Omlette Surprise is very good as well (=Baked Alaska) and the protion is for 2 people at least