Anyways, the food we had was really great; flavorful, plentiful and perfectly hot. Try the chicken with chili-chocolate sauce, it's really quite lovely!

Raw minced meat is mixed with an abundance of herbs and chilis spices, kneaded (by hand!) for a couple hours and then served with salad, chilis and lemon. It looks like pieces of play-dough and has an admittedly acquired taste (pretty damn hot, too!), but is hereby highly, highly recommended! Also try the Cigköfte Dürüm. They have expanded their selection considerably in the past few weeks but I haven't had a chance to try any of it. Yet.

Service was relatively unfriendly when we were there, but the place was packed and they were stressed.
Oh and when I reserve well in advance I expect to get a good table, not the one in the corner by the coats and next to the bathroom entrance.

Anyways, no one comes close to these guys, go there for all your DnB, Dubstep, Grime and Breaks needs, accept no substitute!
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Good for a beer or two on a warm summer evening.

Service is fine, can be a bit typically Viennese in the evening. Food is hit or miss, but the coffee and ambience cannot be beat.

Why these are mentioned in pretty much all the guidebooks is beyond me. Anyways, if you want a true slice of Viennese Gasthaus life, go across the street to Wickerl.

Aside from stock of various Teas and paraphernalia to prepare it (it's an art), they offer wonderful Matcha chewing gum, Matcha chocolate, Matcha-Lattes, Matcha-Smoothies and other unlikely creations. Try the Umeboshi-Onigiri, my personal favorite.

Feinster Prosciutto, diverseste Pecorinos, Parmesan, Ricotta; Pestos, Antipasti und natürlich die fantastischen Orangen! In der Winterzeit gibt's auch Mandarinen (so richtige, wie früher) und Bitterorangen, perfekt für Marmeladen!
Und alles zu Preisen, die garantiert 50% unter denen vom Naschmarkt liegen. Toll!

interiors are vaguely colonial, the soundtrack comes courtesy a Buddha Bar compilation (or some other generic downtempo aural carpeting) and the waitress had that funky Beach-thing going on, dreadlocks n piercings and whatnot. So far, so Alex Garland.

Numerous, no: countless signs (and folders and posters...) advertise the fact that, yes, they travel with Eva Air (three times a week to Bangkok) although judging from the food they haven't really been there recently...
We had two starters, deep-fried-to-death spring rolls, which were more chinese than Thai, and Dim Sum, which were just chinese. My fault, I probably shoulda gone with the yummy-sounding salads, but the prices turned me off.
Main dishes weren't bad, they were just horribly bland and listless. The shrimp curry was soggy, just an uninspired mess of vegetables and average shrimps. Same went for the Wok with shrimps, just whatever veggies were around mixed in with masses of Thai Basil and Chili. Anything but Thai.

Oh, and earth to Echo: 4,80 for a small bottle of Singha beer isn't just outrageous, it's downright ridiculous.

Around 200 Whiskeys, Bourbons, Single Malts and so on, some from tiny distillieries, some from exotic places such as Japan and India (!). Also a great selection of Rum and a handful of Gins and Vodkas. Very competent and friendly!

Good stuff, would definitely go again.

The starters are wonderful little bursts of flavour, the main courses are all perfectly seasoned and yummy throughout. Go there, they deserve all the business they can get! There's a 1,20.- cover charge, but that gets you Papadums, a couple sauces and also a taster of battered and fried vegetable, so it's more than worth it.

Huge, wonderful outside seating area, perfect Pizzas, and everything else certainly looks divine.

Small selection of yummy and spicy curries, Samosas, Thalis and the like. Make sure and ask for the Mango pickles and the various chutneys they offer on the side!

I seriously doubt it's the first Sushi place in town, but it's certainly one of the best.

Hidden away in a courtyard off Rotenturmstrasse is a tiny, discreet, open-kitchen eatery, run by an Austrian chef who seems to have spent much of his working time in Asia. The menu changes daily, is sometimes type-, sometimes handwritten or, in our case, verbally presented by the lovely Korean hostess.

€15.- will get you a three-course meal, ours was a plentiful, impossibly fresh Won-Ton soup, a truly yummy meat and vegetable main course and some fresh fruit and home-made yoghurt for dessert. Fantastic!

The service was exemplary and the crowd as diverse as it gets; in the evening it seems to aim at a more business casual crowd, the prices are higher, but oh my, did the menu look promising!

For my taste Kokoro combines all the necessary elements a good restaurant needs to have: sophisticated, playful and confident cuisine, welcoming and open atmosphere and a certain cosmopolitan approach which doesn't ever turn into snobism (which is rare in Vienna).

If I could give it 6 stars, I would.

So yeah, for that and the average service this only gets three stars, although it is absolutely worth a visit!

Shoddy interiors, horrible service, good-to-average food. And you smell like Falafel if you sit inside for too long.

They also run the philiale in the foyer of the Gartenbaukino, not quite as popular but they're getting there.

Best coffee in the area, pretty decent food, great breakfast selection. Only thing is that the lounge area turns into a Kindergarden on some afternoons but I'm not complaining :)

But they have bunched of other genres as well, ranging from Rock, Psychedelic to various forms of Electronica. They're really stand-up people, too, always open for suggestions and helpful with finding stuff.

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Aside from the usual organic/esoteric stuff you can get wonderful vegetarian casserolles and strudels here, made fresh and also available for takeaway. Yummy and really cheap!

Sasso D'Oro tries hard to be as authentically italian as possible and pretty much succeeds on most levels: the Pizzas are wonderful, thin and crispy and they have quite a few unique creations and some wonderful (if pricey) ones with Mozzarella di Bufalo. The meat and fish dishes were mostly great so far, the Minestrone is the best I've ever had outside of Italy. Haven't tried the wines yet, but they're exclusively from Italy. The owner is big, burly, friendly fellow who will go out of his way to accomodate you, which helps overlook the fact that the service is a bit chaotic at times. Huge Schanigarten!

We had the classic Sushi selection which was surprisingly good. Not sure where they are from but the chef is quite possibly Japanese.

I'm always sceptical about 'creative' Sushi and Maki, but everything I've had there (mainly various forms of Maki) has been subtle, excellent and truly delicious.

Probably the most beautiful outside dining area in Vienna. Bit pricy and the service is iffy sometimes.

Finally cleaned the place up, got a new team and got rid of the DJ lineup, which was a bad idea to begin with. Great for a late night snack, open until 2/4 on weekends.

Menu changes weekly (daily even?) and you get a choice of about 3 starters, 3 main courses and 3 deserts to choose from. Not cheap but so tastefully, creatively and lovingly done that it's worth every cent. Great choice of wines, let some suggest a few options.
Reservations essential!