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Cafés and Bars in Vienna Types of Coffee
In most of Vienna’s finer cafés, a
The café has been an ingrained part of viennese life for tuxedoed waiter will serve your
centuries, and there are plenty of traditional cafés found coffee, along with a glass of
throughout the city. The majority of the popular cafés are found water, on a silver metal tray. But
in central vienna, where they are best seen as architectural ordering coffee in the first place
may be no easy task, as there
ambassadors from the days of the Habsburg monarchy. are at least 20 different types to
But vienna is not all about history and tradition: many sleek choose from. Some variations are:
cafés and bars have opened up, adding a new dimension Kleiner Brauner: small coffee
to a city that not long ago was still in a post-World War II with milk
slumber; yet now it is a vibrant european Union capital. Grosser Brauner: large coffee
with milk
Kleiner Schwarzer: small
espresso
Grosser Schwarzer: double
espresso
Melange: light Grosser Brauner
with steamed milk
Mokka: strong black coffee
Kapuziner: black coffee with
frothed milk
Franziskaner: lighter version of
the Kapuziner
Milchkaffee: half coffee, half milk
Verlängerter: espresso with a
dash of hot water
The spacious Café Central with its fine Neo-Gothic vaulted ceiling Einspänner: large glass of
Mokka with whipped cream on
The Viennese Café
of other offerings. At Café top and sometimes sprinkled
It may be an exaggeration to Prückel, for example, the bridge with cocoa
call Vienna’s cafés the heart of tables are set up, while Café Eiskaffee: cold, black, with
the city, but they are certainly Sperl is ideal for billiard playing. vanilla ice cream and topped
one of its lifelines. Following And literary readings are a with whipped cream
the Turkish invasions of the favourite at the 200-year-old
16th and 17th centuries, cafés Café Dommayer.
in Vienna have been important Architecture- and design-
meeting places, and have traced gazing is highly important,
the history of this remarkable too. Café Museum, built in
city. In Vienna’s oldest café, Café 1899, shows off the talent of
Frauenhuber, Mozart himself Art Nouveau functionalist
once performed; in Café Central, Adolf Loos. The Kleines Café
once a gathering spot for (Kleines meaning “little”) is a
intellectuals, Leon Trotsky wonder with its nearly
made some revolutionary Lilliputian proportions. And the Coffee is elegantly served on a silver tray
plans for Russia; Sigmund Freud splendidly painted Neo-Gothic with a glass of water
often took therapy breaks at vaulting is the main feature of
the traditionally elegant Café Café Central. What to Eat
Landtmann, and the Bohemian- Café fare can range from
esque Café Bräunerhof provided sausages to soups to cakes
inspiration for renowned writer and pastries. Lunch at Café
Thomas Bernhardt. Landtmann and the mirror-
laden Café Schwarzenberg
can include traditional Wiener
Café Culture Schnitzel, while Demel, formerly
One of the best advantages of the confectioners to the
Vienna’s cafés is that you can Habsburg Court, offers fancy
linger at your table for several salads and an array of tantalizing
hours by ordering just one cup sweets. Café Diglas never runs
of coffee. You can also read local out of over-sized portions of
and international newspapers strudels and cream cakes, while
and magazines, provided free Café Hawelka is famous for its
of charge, and depending on At Cafe Prückel diners can enjoy a game of Buchteln (jam-filled buns)
the establishment, enjoy a host bridge with their coffee served late into the evening.

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