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Vienna’s Best: Hawelka
Coffee Houses This famous coffee house has
long cultivated its bohemian
image. The atmosphere is warm
and theatrical, and no visit to
Coffee houses have been an essential part of Viennese Vienna is complete without
life for centuries. More than just a place to drink coffee, a late-night cup of coffee
they are meeting places, somewhere to linger over or a drink here.
a snack or a light lunch, and refuges from city life.
Each attracts a particular clientele and has its own Landtmann
atmosphere. Further details of what coffee houses This formal but comfortable coffee
have to offer can be found on pages 62–3. house used to be frequented by
Sigmund Freud. Today it is visited
by theatregoers
and actors from
the nearby
Burgtheater, and
by journalists and
politicians.
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Schottenring and
Alsergrund
Prückel
The Prückel may not have the chic
elegance of establishments like the
Central, but it has become a mecca
Central D A N U B E C A N A L for locals, particularly bridge players,
Once the meeting place of writers and free thinkers, the who crowd into its back room.
most splendid of all the coffee houses in Vienna has been
restored to its former grandeur. Museum and
Townhall Stephansdom
Quarter Quarter
Eiles
Its location near various
government offices Hofburg
Hofburg
has made the Eiles Quarter
Quarter
a favourite haunt of
officials and lawyers.

Kleines
One of the smallest, quaintest
Sperl coffee houses in Vienna, the
Just outside the city Kleines attracts a loyal
centre, the Sperl Opera and Belvedere clientele of actors.
Quarter
has a faithful Naschmarkt
clientele, including
many young
people who come
here for the billiard
tables and hot
strudels.
Café Museum
The Café Museum was built in Frauenhuber
1899 with an interior by Adolf Loos The oldest coffee house in Vienna,
(see p94), but was remodelled in this is where Mozart once performed.
the 1930s to designs by Josef Zotti Its location off Kärntner Strasse makes
that replaced Loos’s stylish but spartan it handy for shoppers and for tourists
seating with comfortable banquettes. visiting the nearby Stephansdom.

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