About Vienna - Your City Travel Guide
About Vienna - Your City Travel Guide
About Vienna - Your City Travel Guide

Best addresses in Vienna

Viennese Wine Taverns

Drinking wine has become a tradition in Austria. Therefore there are many different wine growing areas, producing varying sorts of wine. The wine is consumed in wine taverns, called Heuriger that are run by winemakers who do not only offer wine but also food, which you fetch from a buffet yourself. Austrian wine is world famous for its quality. A very common drink is the G'spritzer, a mixture of wine and mineral water. If you come to Vienna you should definitely go to a Heuriger to experience this unique flair.

Viennese Beer Pubs

Vienna also posesses a very long beer brewing tradition. The laws for brewing beer are very strict, guaranteeing the consumer and lover of beer a product of quality made out of absolutely fresh and natural ingredients. Viennese beer is very smooth and not as tangy as beer from other nations and is a very common drink, when you order Wienerschnitzel or Tafelspitz. Apart from typical beer places, you can find a wide range of Micro Breweries, with adjacent pubs throughout the city of Vienna.

Viennese Cuisine - Restaurants

Vienna used to be the capital of a multinational state and was a glazing pot for different national traditions. The best and most tasty proof is the menu of a traditional restaurant offering Viennese Cuisine. You will find a mixture of Hungarian, Bohemian and Austrian dishes, like goulash, different kinds of beef and veal and sweet dessert, often served as main dishes. The best place to get hold of Viennese Cuisine are so called Beisls, a term that used to describe a cheap low class eating facility. Nowadays the gradation of a Beisl refers to a small restaurant around the corner as well as a high class noble restaurant.

International Cuisine - Restaurants

Although we are sure that you will love Austrian cuisine, Vienna has a wide range of international culinary options. If you are looking for a traditional American style Burger to British style fish and chips, the following restaurants should be able to help:

American

Asian

Fish

Indian

International

Turkish/Mediterranean

Vegetarian