If you are planning a weekend in Vienna, here are some suggestions: Allow the blade and the calorie counter food at home. The attractiveness of Vienna coffee Hausen you have all your self-control in the variety of cakes and pastries for a substantial part of depriving the face of traditional Austrian experience. could forget Starbucks coffee chain others you’ve visited in the past. . . It is a completely different ball game.
The Turks are bringing coffee to Vienna in the second half of the 17th century assigned. The Turkish army had marched into Austria, and if they were forced to leave, in which something in haste, they left several bags of coffee beans. The Viennese coffee decided to try for themselves and have been hooked ever since.
With the beginning of the 20th Century, there were over 500 coffee houses in the city, offers not only coffee and cake, but newspapers, chess boards, and in some cases pool tables. They were also recognized as a meeting place for writers and business people in Vienna. Unfortunately, over the past 20 years, dozens were closed, and some of these top sites are now occupied by international coffee chains and fast food.
But the brightest and the best are yet to take, and no visit to Vienna would be no interruption of any of them for coffee and cake round pit-stop between sites. Many of them are still newspapers, and once he started to drink without pressure and move forward. Vienne suggests that drinking coffee is a social event to meet friends and gossip in a comfortable way.
After selecting your coffee, and found a place, preferably in the window if you can manage it, you’ll be facing a long list of coffee and an even longer list of federal-stretching pastry. Do not think you can, the only order a “coffee”. This date marks you as an amateur. It is in all probability, be at least a dozen varieties available, and you will be asked to make an informed decision and appropriate order. Here are a few that you can find in the menu on the average. . . Charges, there are more, but we are at this stage is not complicated.
Black – very black coffee as an espresso.
Small (small) or Large (large) Brown – Coffee Cream
Capuchins – coffee with a dash of milk
Melange – like coffee with steamed milk as a cappuccino
Gig – mocha with whipped cream
Fiacre – mocha with brandy. . . a must if you are in Vienna on a cold winter day.
Then there are cakes and pies can be ordered. After all, they must be accompanied by a delicious coffee and sweet and calorific value, the better. More visibility see soon burn off the calories.
The mention of the word “Austria” conjures images of mountains, Mozart, and Sacher Torte as most Viennese confectionery Fritz Sacher invented when he was at the court of Prince Metternich in the early 19th century education. There is only one place to eat – in its spiritual homeland, the Café Sacher in Philharmonikerstrasse. Try a seat in the porch, facing the Opera, you order a taxi to get coffee to go with him, and watch the world go by. Sacher-Torte, is even better when served with a dollop of cream, but that can go into dairy products are considered an overload. But the Sacher Café is a special place, can be forgiven a little more indulgence.
Other varieties of “pie” in the offer because they are all the cafes in Vienna. Why not try the pie chestnut is similar, but Sacher cake filled with chestnut puree?
Or, Linzer Torte, another delicious Austrian specialties? It is reputedly the oldest cake in the world, after the first time in 1653 and is a treat wonderfully light, composed of two layers of marzipan butter plum or raspberry jam. Apelstrudel is another popular favorite, butter, light ultra-thin layers of dough filled with apples and dried fruit. And after Rodgers and Hammerstein, one of Maria von Trapp “Favourite Things”.
Cupcakes are just as varied. . . Try golatschen – a piece of puff pastry with cream cheese, or a zimtscnecke filled – filled a spiral-shaped nut paste. The list is endless and you’ll be spoiled for choice.
But where to go for an hour of pure, sweet pleasure? Coffee Camp property “are scattered throughout the city, and is bound close to your hotel or on the road to a. But try to visit the genuine article. There are many coffee chains in Vienna today. Starbucks has arrived, while globalization has penetrated in Vienna, but the old coffee house is still there and a soldier.
Some of the best are:
Café Central. . . one of the best known, if the merit, perhaps a little “tourist”, but the magnificent vaulted ceiling more than makes up for it. former clients include Beethoven, Goethe, Mahler and Trotsky (if not a source of the revolutionary ideology), then you’ll be in good company. It is usually a pianist, residence (or not) on them. Café Central is located at the corner of Bush and Mr. Grasse, but it is so well known, it is hard to miss.
Prückel Café overlooks the city park on Stuberning 24th. . . . A traditional coffee house with high ceilings and large cakes.
Cafe Sperl, Gumpendorfer on the road. . . . Viennese coffee regarded as the only “real coffee house in Vienna. The interior is original from the 19th Century although it is charged atmosphere early in the bucket, and a nice line in the paste.
If you are a champion in the class as apple pie “perfect” in the Schottenring Cafe (Schottenring 19) offers instruction in art in sixth place 30 in the evening for only 13 €. Check with the tourist office in the city center or in your hotel reservation.
The cafes are the perfect antidote to a long afternoon under the Habsburgs in Vienna and splendor a good start for an evening of Viennese culture. After sampling will be coffee and cake are you really in the mood for an evening at the opera, for which Vienna is famous.