Dining in Vienna

Filed in archive Destination: Europe on June 12, 2009

It's been years since I've been to Austria. This MSNBC piece made me think about going back.

Vienna is one of Europe's cultural capitals. And while the music and the art and the archetecture and the history are all great, the food is not bad either.

Each coffeehouse comes with its own individual character. Cafe Sperl dates from 1880, and is still furnished identically to the day it opened - from the coat tree to the chairs. Cafe Hawelka has a dark, "brooding Trotsky" atmosphere, paintings by struggling artists (who couldn't pay for coffee), smoked velvet couches, and a phone that rings for regulars...

There's plenty more. See the story .


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