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Reviewed 05. Jul 2007
Been ages since I was here, but I remember liking it :)
Reviewed 23. Oct 2009
This is probably my favorite bookshop in Europe.
I've been going here (and their branch in The Hague) for 20 years.
Reviewed 24. Dec 2006
I've had some nice meals here :) The exotic salad is great.
It's the sister restaurant to Do-An on the Naschmarkt.
Reviewed 10. Sep 2008
Nice pan-Asian food.
I asked for a spicy Thai curry and I got it.
Reviewed 13. Mar 2007
Nice place, very good brunch buffet.
Friendly service. Open on Sunday. Too bad you can't sit outside.
Reviewed 26. Feb 2009
This is a tiny hole in the wall place, but is has great food.
Great shoarma (schawerma), excellent falafel, nice service.
Reviewed 06. Oct 2008
A small family restaurant.
I went there for lunch today. Nice food, but we waited over 30 minutes before someone came to take our order.
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
I've only been here a couple of times, but every time the food was good.
The interior is great too.
Reviewed 08. Apr 2007
I haven't been here for a while, but this place was a restaurant / club / wellness spa mix last time I went.
The food is quite nice, the interior is fabulous. The club but is not quite my style, but there are many nooks and crannies where you can sit and chat.
Reviewed 07. May 2007
Although there are subtle differences and the waiters don't know me when I come in, this is basically the same as the one in the 6th.
I like their bagles.
Reviewed 23. Oct 2009
Best bagel branch in Europe.
Not that I know that many, but I love the place. It's like being on the set of friends, only without the millionaires.
Reviewed 28. Jun 2007
Nice for coffee during the day (they have a basement!
), crowded and smoky at night.
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
The Urania is a well-known building / school / cinema, but it also contains a cafe / restaurant which is quite nice.
Fancy interior, decent food, nice view.
Reviewed 30. Jun 2007
It's been years since I've been here, but I remember having excellent Austrian food here.
Not quite Zur Weisser Rauchfangkehrer, but better than your average Beisl.
Reviewed 28. Dec 2006
Yes I am not kidding.
This BAWAG branch has a pretty nice cafe inside. To the best of my knowledge it does not have another name. It's a standard Viennese cafe, if a bit small. They serve some food too. Great for when Delia's is closed. It's perhaps the best-hidden cafe since TWA closed theirs.
Reviewed 20. Oct 2008
I had a salade nicoise here today, with a tarte tatin for dessert.
Nice terrace, friendly waiters, decent food.
Reviewed 10. Jul 2008
It's closed.
Too bad!
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
Nice Australian-ish restaurant with burgers etc.
The Oz vibe is not super-strong. The food is nice.
Reviewed 28. Dec 2006
This is a pretty nice Irish pub in the 9th.
They have a small terrace in the summer.
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
Their bagels aren't bad and the place looks nice.
They just happen to be opposite of my favorite cafe in all of Vienna :) (Not, not Centimeter :P)
Reviewed 20. May 2007
To get there: go in through the main entrance, then take a left and follow the lane.
They have an outside terrace which they close at some point, then another terrace which is in a courtyard and doesn't close. I didn't quite get the difference.
They have a limited choice of food, and for some reason they stop serving hot drinks after 9 PM, which is annoying when it's still a bit cold in the evening (like just now).
Reviewed 29. Oct 2008
The name might perhaps raise an eyebrow or two if you're not French, but the coffee is great.
They sell coffee, tea and the corresponding paraphernalia, including espresso machines and coffee mills. I was just here around lunch time and noticed a line of people waiting for coffee to go. I joined in to find out why. You can get one of two kinds of coffee for 1 Euro 30, as well as tea and hot cocoa. This is served with a chocolate and a tiny muffin. The lady making the coffee was super-cheerful. The coffee was very, very good - about as good as in Rome, I'd say. Definitely a good place to go.
Reviewed 01. May 2007
Slightly up-market, but not snooty.
Last time I went there it was a restaurant, and people did eat there. But I haven't been there for a while.
Reviewed 28. Dec 2006
I like this place a lot.
Good food, served till what, 3 AM? Nice terrace in the summer (especially when they fill up their parking space). Downsides: Noisy, crowded, smoky, sometimes slow service.
Reviewed 01. Jul 2007
One of the nicer traditional cafes in Vienna.
Their 'fast' food is nice. I recommend the Sauerkraut and the Cremespinat.
Reviewed 01. Jul 2007
Not super cheap (hey, it's right next to the Hofburg), but one of the better traditional Viennese cafes around this neck of the woods.
Their food is good (especially the Kaiserschmarren, yum) and their interior is not run-down like some other traditional cafes.
Reviewed 01. May 2007
Very...
authentic. The people are very nice though. Great when not smoky.
Reviewed 12. Jul 2007
I go here when Delia's is full :)
Reviewed 26. Sep 2007
I've been here now and then over the years, and usually liked it.
However, I just went there for breakfast and had the WORST ham and eggs I have ever seen in my life. I couldn't get something as bad as this foul-tasting, meat-resembling product if I went to the cheapest supermarket in Vienna.
Service was slow and surly too, but well, that's normal in Viennese cafes.
Reviewed 29. Sep 2008
Went there again tonight.
It turns out there is more than just the table at the front I usually take :P Nice food, nice waitstaff, nice design.
Reviewed 01. May 2007
I went here a few weeks ago based on Mrsid's recommendation, and I wasn't disappointed.
The breakfast was very nice.
Reviewed 23. Oct 2009
This is one of my favorite cafes in Amsterdam.
I love the atmosphere, they have a nice view, a terrace in summer, and the food and drinks are great.
Reviewed 26. May 2007
Decent, unexceptional Austrian food.
Their outside space is under an arcade, making it a good place to eat when the sun is beating down.
Reviewed 28. Apr 2007
Nice, small cafe / bar.
Modern styling, nice interior decoration. A good place to go for a drink around this area.
Reviewed 29. Sep 2008
Small, nice ambience, part of a gallery, large selection of teas.
The gentleman working there told us many amusing anecdotes about Austria.
Reviewed 23. Sep 2008
If you like classical Viennese Kaffeehaeuser, this is a pretty good one.
Exquisitly grumpy waiters, just the right degree of runtergekommenheit, Apfelstrudel. The only surprise was that the coffee was actually decent.
Reviewed 02. Apr 2007
I was here a few days ago with some friends.
It looks more glamorous from far off than close up. It was all a bit mediocre: decor, service, coffee. The place felt cramped and uncozy, and it smelled bad.
Reviewed 09. May 2007
I can't believe I didn't already write a review for this place.
(Seriously, I could've sworn I had done so.)
Anyway. Nice, traditional Viennese cafe. With this I mean: unlike most traditional Viennese cafes, it's nice (*shakes fist at Prueckl and Sperl and their ilk*). Good food, decent coffee, decent service, nice ambience, good location, terrace in summer.
Right next to Haydn - a good place to meet before a movie. Also a good place to chat for 4 hours or more, something I have done here on several occasions.
Try the steak toast.
Reviewed 30. Apr 2007
It's not cheap, but the ambience, service and especially the Sachertorte are worth it.
If paying 3 Euro for a small espresso or 4 Euro for a cup of tea doesn't spoil your mood, go there to taste the original Sacher cake - it really tastes better. Because it's a tourist attraction you can enjoy the fancy surroundings without having to dress for it.
Reviewed 19. Aug 2009
BLEURGH!
I'd been here back in 2001/2, when it was still called Maria's Cantinas, and remembered it as being unexciting but decent Tex-Mex food, a la Mas or Pancho, if nowhere near Jalisco or Tacos Lopez.
The food we got here tonight was terrible. Bad ingredients, shoddily prepared and arranged. The jalapeno slices on the nachos had a bad aftertaste and the refried beans were a thin, weird, reddish paste at the bottom of the plate. The enchillada de pollo was terrible: it was so soggy that it was almost like eating a thin stew wrapped in a tortilla, half-covered by garlic sauce. I don't consider myself a great cook but I can make better enchilladas at home, and most cafes in Vienna serve a better club sandwich than the one my girlfriend had.
I was unable to hide the truth from the waiter, who did not seem all that surprised, but offered me an averna on the house. He had one himself as well, and downed it in one shot.
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
Another great stylish pan-asian.
Good food, nice interior. Nice plum wine. Not so good for vegetarians. Creepy semi-transparent bathroom doors.
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
The Chang's in the 4th has been there for about 5 years I think ;) Much less recent than, say, Ra'mien.
Um, I just wanted to say that, and add the noodles tag.
Reviewed 08. May 2007
I've only been here once, years ago.
Another nice trendy-ish bar/club.
Reviewed 15. May 2007
I went there at 18:00 (don't ask).
It was alright, but they didn't serve cocktails before 20:00. No loud music though...
Reviewed 12. Jan 2009
Very nice bagels, good coffee, friendly service.
Reviewed 12. Apr 2007
Es ist nicht das einzige Sri Lankan Restaurant in Wien - siehe Curry Insel.
Ich war vor eine Woche da, das Essen war gut. Vor allem war die sehr scharfe Sosse wirklich sehr scharf, hmmm.
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
I've only been here twice, but the food was great, and the ambiance and service were good too.
It feels quite unlike other restaurants in Vienna.
For years I thought it was a Wurstlstand somehow (Currywurst... Verkehrsinsel... Curry Insel...)
Reviewed 26. Sep 2008
Similar to the other places in the Museumsquartier.
Nice food, nice ambience.
Reviewed 17. Jun 2007
This is one of the best stores in Vienna for roleplaying games, board games, collectible card games and miniatures (and near enough to Spielerei to make for dangerous shopping sprees).
They also carry gaming-related books, computer games and fantasy novels, and they have a big LARP section where you can buy all the armor, leather bodices and elf ears your heart desires. You can buy online from them as well as in their store, and they have quite an active website.
Reviewed 29. Oct 2008
Since I cannot edit my original rating, I am giving this five stars.
Also, I am increasing my number of reviews with this bogus text. Yay gaming the system!
Reviewed 17. Jun 2007
This shop is in a little side "cove" opposite to the entrance to the Kammerspiele.
They sell Belgian chocolate. I had never noticed this place before (it's kind of well hidden), but I happened see two plates of their chocolates at a party I went to recently. I had ample time to get to know their product, yum.
Reviewed 23. Oct 2009
Really nice coffee / tea / pastry place.
Reviewed 28. Dec 2006
Relatively small but nicely decorated cafe.
It's modern architecture (none of that 'pay us more because we haven't changed our interior for 50 years' crap here), but cozy. They have pretty good coffee, hot chocolate, drinks, and small snacks. They are #1 in Vienna for most elaborate fringe benefits added to your coffee: they once served it to me with a raspberry in an ice cube in the glass of water, and a small bowl of whipped cream on the side. And they are great for spending time between picking up your reserved tickets and going to see a movie at Artis. Oh, nice terrace in summer too.
Reviewed 25. Jun 2007
I've been here once, it's a pretty nice location for live concerts, if a bit out of the way.
They also have a small bar / restaurant attached.
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
Nice stylish Austrian bar-restaurant.
Reviewed 20. Sep 2008
I went there last night.
Very cosy, very friendly people, good food. The main course took a bit long but apart from that it was great. And they have pseudocode for a football AI algorithm framed on their wall!
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
Nice place.
Trendy pan-Asian, like so many in Vienna. Some of the best (only?) nasi goreng in town. Interior is nice, but slightly cold.
Reviewed 07. Nov 2008
Not your ordinary French food.
Chef Katsumi Ishida does interesting things with classic French dishes. Very good food. Great wine. Great service. Excellent coffee at the end.
Reviewed 12. Jun 2007
Anyone expecting a high class dining experience anywhere near the Prater is in for a rough ride, but come to this place with the right expectations and it's OK.
The food is meh, but sitting outside in the Prater on a hot summer evening, sucking down alcoholic drinks that are not just beer, that's got to count for something.
Reviewed 01. May 2007
Mike took me here.
It looks small and innocuous at first but it has a huge back room. The ambience is indeed a tiny bit colder than Kent, but the service and the food were great.
Reviewed 26. May 2007
A nice place that manages to feel modern while also being friendly and down to earth.
They sell intriguing ingredients from Italy (they are not in any way a 'typical' Italian restaurant).
Reviewed 29. Jun 2007
Just had dessert here tonight, first time I'd been there.
I was the only one wearing a T-shirt in the place, and I was probably the first person ever to go in there wearing a T-shirt referencing table-top RPGs (I win!).
The waitress was a bit difficult about reservations - she was basically keeping a lot of tables free 'in case a large group would show up'. There was no indication of when these tables would be needed. Meh. No clue if I could have gotten that table outside if I'd been wearing a suit.
Me and my companion ended up in the bar, which smelled a tad too much of cigar for my taste. We had a very nice creme brulee. Of course it'd better be nice for 9,50 Euro.
The interior is great, but the men's room is small and has a large mirror covering one entire wall. This can be a bit... awkward.
Reviewed 22. Jun 2007
I have never entered this store but it gets 4 stars just for the amazing pun.
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
One of the better Irish pubs in Vienna.
Decent food, Guinness, etc. A good place to meet expats, although occasionally it's a place for expats to complain about Austria. This becomes boring after a while.
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
Dude, I would tell you about one 'intimate crowd experience' I had at Flex but this is a family website.
That one Kruder & Dorfmeister concert was the fullest place I've ever been in in my life - it even beat that night in the basement at Maria's Cantinas, with the 500 other people, and the fire act... I digress.
So, um, yeah, usually it is not that full, and the sound is teh awesome. It's best to go in summer because you can drink outside, you can watch the sun come up after you are done dancing, and you don't need a coat (it once took me 30 minutes to get my coat from the coat check). Don't wear fancy clothes because no-one will be able to see them, they will get dirty, and you will stick out like a sore thumb among the punk / goth teenagers.
Reviewed 27. Sep 2008
I haven't been there in ages, but I used to go once a week.
Floridita is one of the top salsa places in Vienna. If you want to catch a Latin vibe in Vienna, you can't go wrong here. If you want to see fancy LA-style salsa moves, run don't walk. There are also many good opportunities for learning salsa, from beginners' courses to expert workshops. The drinks aren't cheap though. And your face may end up on some dumb Viennese party scene website.
Reviewed 05. Jul 2007
Went here again last night.
The service was excellent, the guy running the non-smoking section (at least, on weekdays) has one of the best attitudes for a waiter I've seen in Vienna. The food was good, not great. Don't hold back and order your steaks rare - medium-rare won't get you the blood. The fries were too salty, but apart from that I had no complaints.
The non-smoking section is a courtyard lit by daylight (it didn't used to be part of the restaurant proper). I personally prefer the interior, looks-wise, and their air conditioning, is quite good so you can hardly tell it's the smoking section. I may sit there next time.
I forgot to mention they do excellent Thanksgiving dinners, both on Thanksgiving Thursday and on the Friday after that.
Reviewed 12. Jan 2009
Big, smoky, nice location and interior.
Looks a bit scruffy considering it's new, but well. Haven't eaten there yet.
Reviewed 18. May 2007
Just saw a play here.
Nice little theatre, nice bar.
Reviewed 16. Oct 2009
Kind of like an irish pub, only Austrian.
Smoky, with a Stammkneipe-vibe - in other words, people stop talking and stare at you when you come in. The food was mediocre to bad.
Reviewed 27. Aug 2008
Just had lunch here.
Best Backhendlsalat ever - way beyond 'a Schnitzel on some green leaves'. Also good coffee and Strudel, and all for a very reasonable price!
Reviewed 26. Sep 2008
I've been here a lot more often since my first review.
Their Kalbsbutterschnitzel is to die for. They have a very affordable Mittagsmenue, with a great Gulash as a fallback solution.
Giving it 5 stars so my reviews average to 4...
Reviewed 01. Oct 2008
Very nice bistro food.
Great desserts!
Reviewed 26. Sep 2008
Pretty good place.
The food is nice, the terrace in summer is cool, and the interior is cozy. Too bad the non-smoking, sofa-strewn part in the back fills up quick...
Reviewed 23. Apr 2007
I've only been to this place once a long time ago, but I liked it.
I tried to find it again recently but forgot the name (I forget names sometimes...) and couldn't find it on the web.
Update: Ah, I couldn't find it because it's closed...
Reviewed 28. Apr 2007
I went there last night.
It wasn't crowded or noisy. However, I paid 10,50E for a mediocre gin gimlet that has given me a splitting headache. That's more than I have ever paid for a cocktail in Vienna, including in the Sky Bar. The service was alright, but the clientele was a bit annoying, more so than in other upscale places. I prefer the Hilton Am Stadtpark.
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
One of the better Italian restaurants in Vienna, imho.
Great pizzas and bruschetta. Comes with authentic Italian (Neapolitan?) attitude.
Reviewed 27. Oct 2008
Had lunch here a while ago.
Excellent food, just like it's sister restaurant I Ragazzi.
Reviewed 24. Sep 2008
Great food, similar to I Ragazzi.
Reviewed 16. Aug 2009
I had dinner here again last night, and I now have to say this is the best Indian restaurant I know in Vienna.
Rani, Bombay, Moghulhof, usw. don't come close.
Reviewed 25. May 2007
One of the best Mexican restaurants in Vienna - legend has it the only one with a Mexican cook.
The food is great, so are the prices. They have a huge outdoor area in the back.
Reviewed 19. Sep 2008
Very nice people, selling good coffee for decent prices.
I recently switched from Illy to their Caruso blend. They let me taste a couple of different coffees too.
UPDATE: Hmmm I meant the one in the Schleifmuehlgasse...
Reviewed 25. Jul 2008
Meh.
Too hectic, mediocre food, only menus before 16:00.
Reviewed 06. May 2007
I have a friend who is really into this kind of stuff, and who went through the trouble of reserving a table several months in advance.
So I had dinner in the Actual Restaurant.
What can I say? The food was good but not mind-blowing. The decor was trendy and sleek but not more so than in other places. The service was competent but far from the best I've ever seen.
The problem is this place is so over-hyped. Kim is a mistress of self-promotion. I don't really keep up to date with what is hot or not, but even I knew about this place. So inevitably your expectations are sky-high. In the end, the experience is more about celebrity than about food.
Reviewed 17. Oct 2008
Went here today with some co-workers for lunch.
Our food took 30 minutes. The trick is to call ahead (in the morning O.o) and order, then picking it up takes only a few minutes. We didn't do this so we waited around for ages while other people came in and got food right away... We did get some free shrimp crackers though.
Reviewed 08. Apr 2007
Very nice but quite small (doy) cafe in the middle of the 1st district.
Very cool terrace in the summer. Their Bauernomelettes are the best omelettes in town I know of.
Reviewed 13. Jun 2007
A nice studenty place to go have a snack after seeing a movie at Artis.
Massive selection of Fladenbroten, and they have Guinness, yum. Can be a bit smoky.
Reviewed 12. Jan 2009
Great Czech food.
The restaurant slightly resembled a Viennese cafe (or vice versa).
Reviewed 22. Jun 2007
I've been going here for years and I've always been happy with the service and the results.
Reviewed 11. Jun 2007
A nice place, slighly more stylish than the 'typical' Japanese / Korean restaurant in Vienna, with good food for a decent price.
Reviewed 08. May 2007
Don't be put off by the bad website, or this paragraph: "Als Szenetreff für die anspruchsvollen Barbesucher Wiens, hat sich die Kruger´s American Bar ab 18 Uhr als Geheimtipp für Manager und Geschäftsleute entwickelt, die bei einem Cocktail, Whiskey oder auch einer feinen Zigarre mit Ihren Geschäftsfreunden zu angenehmer Musik den Geschäftstag ausklingen lassen wollen.
"
(Although it should give you an indication of their usual clientele.) This is a great cocktail bar in the more traditional style (a la Planter's Club, but unlike, say, Schultz). Good cocktails, nice decor, you can sit outside in summer and watch goth kids walk by. What more do you want?
Reviewed 24. Jun 2007
Very small, very intimate, very authentic.
You will see dishes you have probably never heard of, or tasted before. I recommend going here in an adventurous mood.
Reviewed 01. May 2007
This place rocks.
Good food & drink, nice terrace, nice interior. Good music every once in a while too - I saw DJ DSL here once.
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
Nothing exceptional, just nice Japanese food, especially sushi.
Reviewed 15. Oct 2008
I had lunch here today.
I didn't see the dishes I remembered from other creperies, but the food was tasty and the staff were very nice.
Reviewed 12. Jan 2009
Excellent food for a decent price.
Reviewed 04. Oct 2008
Meh.
Annoying dance music and bright lights, misunderstandings with the staff ("Yes, actually, I would like to EAT here if that is alright"). The pizza I had was so-so.
Reviewed 07. Oct 2008
Good bistro food, nice interior and service, OK prices.
Reviewed 24. Apr 2007
There is a dearth of French restaurants in Vienna, ou etes-vous mesdames et messieurs?
Thankfully Le Bol opened last year, it has good food, good decor, and good service. It's just a pity so many people have noticed this ;)
Reviewed 05. Oct 2008
Nice place.
I've been here a couple of times now. It's in the quite touristy Rue Merciere, but they serve nice, classical bistro food for decent prices (11E plat).
Reviewed 20. Nov 2008
Really great food and nice waiters.
The interior could be a bit cosier, but apart from that I had a great time.
Reviewed 14. Oct 2008
Just had lunch here.
Classical bistro food, not exceptional, but tasty. Good service.
Reviewed 04. Oct 2008
Fancy interior, friendly staff.
The food is not cheap (12E entree, 20+E plat, 9E dessert). The onion soup I had was ample and warming though.
Reviewed 12. Oct 2008
Decent Chinese food, friendly and efficient service.
Reviewed 10. Oct 2008
Le Sud is one of the restaurants of famous chef Paul Bocuse.
I had a great dinner here last night. The food was good and the service very friendly.
Reviewed 06. Nov 2008
Went here for lunch today.
Small, unassuming place, but great African food (from Reunion) for a reasonable price.
Reviewed 02. Nov 2008
I went here again tonight for tea and dessert.
It grew on me. Great atmosphere, friendly waiters.
Reviewed 17. Jun 2007
Good turkish food for a decent price.
A lot of space inside and a terrace outside in summer.
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
I don't go to Li Du as much as Tobe, but I have had decent food and good service here.
Reviewed 13. Jul 2007
Unpretentious, nice Turkish food.
Reviewed 08. Apr 2007
Duchgestyltes cafe / cocktail bar on the Mariahilfer Strasse.
Very nice ambiance, good coffee and drinks in the evening. Although the selection is limited, the food is nice too.
Reviewed 04. Nov 2008
The food is slow in coming but very tasty.
I had a great spicy beef salad, and a nice duck curry.
Reviewed 04. Oct 2008
The right kind of store to get schnoesely foodstuffs: wine, spirits, spices, tea, chocolate, etc.
I bought some Mariage Freres green tea (they also have Kusmi) and some Dolfin chocolate. The staff was friendly.
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
A nice Italian restaurant.
I've only been here once, but I remember the food and decor being very good.
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
ZOMG.
And here me and everyone know refer to this place as 'Maschiu'. They should change their logo.
Anyway, really good falafel for a very low price. Not a lot of space inside, but lots outside in summer.
Reviewed 21. Apr 2007
I was here a week or so ago.
Excellent risotto out in the sun, very friendly service (duh, the waitress was from Burgenland, not Vienna...), and they let us sit on the terrace even after they'd closed it for other customers.
And hey, I went here because I read Dana's review. The system works!
Reviewed 04. Jun 2007
Meinl am Graben is also _the_ supermarket in Vienna where you can get anything your heart desires - IF you are willing to pay for it (don't buy anything you could buy in a normal supermarket).
From exotic spices to vegetables, meat, cheeses, bread, pastries and booze, you can get it all here, and only the Naschmarkt comes close in offering as many different quality items. Shopping here before Christmas is a wonderful experience, just make sure you ate beforehand.
Reviewed 01. May 2007
Nice cocktails and an interesting interior.
Reviewed 26. Sep 2008
Great place.
Cosy atmosphere, good food (if you don't like the lunch menu, try the vegan burger) and kuchen, and you can shop for food as well.
If only their name were easier to search for... Sankt Joseph? St. Joseph? Sankt Josef? :P
Reviewed 22. Oct 2008
I went here last night.
Nice place, the people tended to be around 30. Live rock music, micro-brewed beer, burgers and fries.
Reviewed 12. Jan 2009
Nice Asian-esque food in a modern stylish interior.
The restaurant also contains a gallery and there were interesting photos on the wall when we were there.
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
The actual address is Burggarten - it is the big glass-roofed building inside the Burggarten.
But this site can't handle that address (yet? :P)
Well-known place. Central location. Cool architecture. Nice in summer and winter. Hard to get a seat outside in summer. Good for coffee, drinks, food. Food is nice but slightly too expensive for what it is. But it remains almost always a good place to go.
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
Haven't been here for a while, but pretty good Mexican food in a nice ambience.
It's the sister restaurant to Mas! in the 8th, but less see-and-be-seen-y. Depending on what you feel like, that may be good or bad :)
Reviewed 14. Nov 2008
Still skeptical.
Lacklustre staff, long lines at times. Yesterday, staff-person 1 ran off in panic after being asked for coffee. Staff-person 2 thought "mocca was with milk". (OK, why the lady in front of me ordered a mocca in an Italian place I don't know, but still.) Coffee was baseline Illy quality - they'd have to make an effort to make it taste worse. But I would appreciate them making an effort to make it taste better.
Today, seduced by the huge signs saying "PANINI", I wanted a panini. Only, they don't have paninis... I asked the semi-motivated staff-lady qho said "We have ciabattas". OK, can you heat those?, I asked, figuring that was their idea of a panini. "Sure, if you want," and nuked the ciabatta of my choice in a microwave, instead of in a panini toaster. Soggy. Still, ingredients are nice. For Vienna these are actually decent sandwiches.
Reviewed 22. Oct 2008
Paul is my favorite bakery chain in France.
Their products are awesome. In this branch, they not only sell bread and pastry to go, but also serve excellent salads, quiches, etc. in their restaurant. It's quite hectic during lunch though.
Reviewed 30. Jun 2007
It's been a long time since I was last here, but I remember this being a very good Chinese restaurant.
Reviewed 10. Oct 2008
Just had lunch here.
Nice place!
Reviewed 22. Oct 2008
A very cute patisserie with all the cakes, biscuits and other sweet creations you could want.
Friendly service. I've only tried their madeleines so far, but they were great. It's also a cafe / restaurant.
Reviewed 03. Jun 2009
Ich wollte hier hingehen, aber ich find im Internet nicht raus ob die am Montags offen haben oder nicht...
Also, auf zum Konkurrenz!
Reviewed 30. Jul 2008
Ich war noch nicht da, aber das Konzept gefaellt mir prinzipiell: http://derstandard.
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Pretentioes muss nicht immer schlecht sein :)
(3 stars because there is no other way to add this info :P)
Reviewed 28. May 2007
It's big (good), cheap (good) the pizzas are big (neutral), service is friendly, but the pizzas at least are mediocre.
It's edible, but not far from average take-out food IMHO.
Reviewed 29. Jun 2007
Just had dinner here tonight, for the first time.
We wanted to go to Figlmueller, but both of them had tourists standing in line.
I had a schnitzel, my companion had a steak. The steak was excellent, the schnitzel was nice but it just ain't the same without some mayonnaisesalat - even the best schnitzel just becomes dry and boring on it's own if you ask me.
Service was good if not great. The whole place feels more touristy than other, um, touristy restaurants. Partially this was because, well, it's full of tourists. Partially it's the incessant selling of those damn cookbooks. I own a copy, quit shoving it in my face already.
Reviewed 08. May 2007
I've only been here a few times.
It's a good place for cocktails, and to observe the social behavior of people who wear suits all day.
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
Probably my favorite cafe in all of Vienna.
Their coffee is great, food is nice (although choice is limited), staff can be nice (that's saying something for Vienna), the ambience is cool. I really like their breakfasts - till 5PM I think, on weekends.
Reviewed 02. Nov 2009
The interior has a very unique style for a Viennese cafe.
It also has good coffee, which sadly is very rare in Vienna. The bagel and cookies were nice too.
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
Perhaps the best known of the durchgestylte pan-asian restaurants, complete with cool creation myth / origin story about the interior of a Chinese restaurant from Berlin that was shipped to Vienna.
Some people don't like it, but I do. Cute interior decoration, attractive wait staff, good food for a decent price, and a killer cocktail bar in the basement. What else does one want?
The only thing I could complain about is their supercomplex menu with various groups of dishes coming on- and offline at certain times. I once managed to be in the 60 minute time window where there was, basically, no food. But meh, it's pretty rare.
If someone knows a place with better pad thai in Vienna: let me know.
Reviewed 29. Sep 2008
Decent Indian food - about on a par with what you typically get in Vienna.
Nice lunch menu with decent prices, from about 6 Euro upwards. Nice service.
Reviewed 04. Feb 2009
Good quality for money except for some hidden fees.
Gedeck 3 Euro, mineral water 5.30 Euro - you get a bottle. Nice, unless you expected a glass ;)
Very nicely presented and tasty food, very nice service, nice interior. Good for business lunches.
Reviewed 31. May 2007
Ha-haaaa first post!!!
Just went to this place for lunch, it was awesome. Cheap, tasty food, nice service, good vibe.
Reviewed 01. May 2007
I've been here several times in the last few months.
I liked the food and coffee, and the upstairs lounging area is very nice.
Reviewed 17. Jun 2007
Alas!
Gone are the days of the massive store on the Mariahilferstrasse. Now Runch! is on the Kaiserstrasse, but they are still one of the best places to go to in Vienna for German and English language comics and for pop culture related toys. They also have an online store where you can buy life-size Yoda doll! Life-size Yoda \o/ "Buy it you will"
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
I like this place, and I am not even vegetarian :)
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
This used to be a Haaegen-Dasz, now it's an Israeli restaurant.
I still don't know how I feel about losing the Haaegen-Dasz :P, but it's a good place to get Israeli food. It looks a bit like a kebab place at first glance, but it isn't. The cook puts a lot of effort into this food, and serves vegan food as well (as in falafel).
Reviewed 12. Jun 2007
Basically the same as Cafe Sacher Wien ( http://tupalo.
com/spot/1357 ), but more informal and you can sit outside.
Reviewed 23. Oct 2008
Just had lunch here.
Nice food. Nothing special, but tasty. A lot of fish-based dishes (duh). It used to be a pizzeria, and you can tell a bit from the decoration.
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
Nice Austrian place, not overly trendy, but not too folksy either.
Good food, good ambience. A bit smoky, like many Austrian places. Hope that will change soon...
Reviewed 16. Jul 2007
Tobe took me here once.
They serve a large and varied spectrum of Schnitzels. It's a weird place - in a good way.
Reviewed 12. Jun 2007
This place is set up for high throughput more than anything else.
The food is a cliche and not that great, but it is consistent and there's always a place to sit outside in summer.
Reviewed 19. Jun 2007
Actually, I think Centro in Oberhausen is bigger.
But SCS is pretty big :)
Downside: it's out of the way if you don't have a car.
Reviewed 15. Sep 2009
What Absinthe said.
I don't know a better Italian restaurant in Vienna. For pizza, I would still go to I Ragazzi / I Terroni / I Carusi, but for everything else, this is the place. The spaghetti and the risotto are great, the dolce mista nearly killed me.
Reviewed 06. May 2007
I went there again yesterday.
Again, the food was nice. I forgot to mention last time that the people in the restaurant are... not rude or unfriendly, but definitely not trying hard to make you feel as if they're happy to see you.
Reviewed 20. Sep 2008
I've been there twice now, once in summer, once in winter (september 2008 = winter).
I like the food and the decoration. I don't think it's expensive - the lunch menu items are all around 6-7 euros, even with the Gedeck (0.50E) that's about the same as similar restaurants in the area. The staff is a little odd - one time, the waiter removed my friend's soup bowl while she still had her last spoon of soup in her hand...
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
One of the better expat bars.
Cosy but not small, good drinks, good food, good prices. Can get loud / full.
Reviewed 13. Jul 2007
I like it.
Good location, good cocktails.
Reviewed 01. May 2007
I come here a *lot*.
Great food, nice and spicy (if you want).
Reviewed 28. Apr 2007
I was here again just now with my cousin.
It's quite a long walk up, but that's good for the appetite. The view and the food were still great. The service was excellent, we even got some free chocolate when one of the ladies in the kitchen accidentally dropped a heavy metal utensil on one of us. (No, really, they were super nice. Also, we are both fine.)
Reviewed 01. Jul 2007
It took me a while to discover this store.
Underneath the mild-mannered ground floor filled with candlesticks and porcelain dogs and other objects I do not understand is a kick-ass basement filled with pretty much every piece of kitchen equipment you can think of. As long as it doesn't have an electrical cord, they carry it. There are things I've looked for for years until I went here, and it's still the first place I go when I need another handy cooking tool. (Except for knives, I get those some place else.)
Reviewed 30. Oct 2008
Just went here for lunch.
Very friendly staff. Good food. I had a Dutch cabbage dish and some pumpkin gratin, all vegan. The service is buffet style.
Reviewed 01. May 2007
Together with TGIF this is the only American theme restaurant in Vienna that I know of.
If you want that special ambience you can only create with plastic palm trees, this is the place to go. No, that wasn't sarcasm.
Reviewed 17. Jun 2007
This is one of the best stores in Vienna for roleplaying games, board games, collectible card games and miniatures (and near enough to Damage Unlimited to make for dangerous shopping sprees).
They also carry gaming-related books. You can buy online from them as well as in their store.
Reviewed 08. Apr 2007
They will probably hate it when I say this, but this is where I go when Cafe Europa is too crowded.
It's a nice little place, cool vibe, nice drinks and small snacks.
Reviewed 01. Jul 2007
I don't like their coffee but their scones, cookies and muffins are hard to beat.
If you can score one of the comfy seats it's a nice place to spend some time, especially if you get one of the coveted seats downstairs behind the windows where you can watch the people outside.
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
This place doesn't have a real address - this is as close as I could get while staying in the 1st district.
It is a bar on an artificial beach by the side of the Donaukanal (boese Zungen say it's a rip-off of Paris Plage... and perhaps they are right). Pretty big, nice in summer (duh), food and drink, beach vibe... the only downside is all of Vienna knows about this place ;)
Reviewed 19. Jun 2007
The bar of this hotel is one of the most stylish I've seen in Vienna.
Very nice atmosphere, good service and they serve some food as well.
Reviewed 26. Sep 2008
Ich schliesse mich den Tobe an: besser so als garnicht.
Die Space Invaders Schuhe kann man woanders billiger kriegen wenn man Glueck hat. Subotron organisiert auch ab und zu akademisch angehauchte Veranstaltungen ueber Videospielkultur. Soll es sein: spielen kann man ja zuhause.
Reviewed 17. Oct 2008
Not the most authentic Tex-Mex, but tasty, decent priced, and nice waitresses.
Reviewed 22. Oct 2008
Just had some drinks here.
Cute place, nice people. Weird music setup - everyone can put on records?
Reviewed 24. Dec 2006
I love this place!
I must have eaten here more often than any other restaurant in Vienna. Chinese, dim sum, sushi, Japanese, Korean, you name it. They have vegan and vegetarian options too. Unpretentious but efficient and inexpensive. The waitstaff will grow to like you, eventually.
(Come on you hypocrits! :D)
Reviewed 01. May 2007
This place doesn't look special on the outside, but it has great sushi.
Reviewed 01. May 2007
The other American theme restaurant in Vienna (see Sparky's).
Decent service, decent food.
Reviewed 03. May 2009
Very nice Mexican food.
I'd write more but I have a reputation to uphold.
Reviewed 03. May 2009
Finally, something resembling a French bistro in Vienna.
Good food, nice service. Pretty authentic too - the crepes are made of buckwheat.
Reviewed 15. Jun 2007
Just had lunch here.
Ambitious food, comparable to the food (and price range) at Palmenhaus ( http://tupalo.com/spot/330 ). A 3 course lunch for 15 Euro is actually pretty good value, and the food was intricate and tasty (although the main course was perhaps a bit blander than it should have been considering the huge amount of ingredients). Their little courtyard terrace feels charmingly ad hoc, and the service was great.
Reviewed 08. May 2007
I've been here once for a birthday party.
The interior was fun, but I wasn't impressed by the food, even though I should've been given their status as one of the few Japanese restaurants run by Japanese (as opposed to Koreans). I think my taste has been ruined by all of the great cheap sushi I can get around Vienna. All I remember from the sushi here is that there was too much wasabi on it for my taste.
Reviewed 23. Sep 2008
It fits in well with the surrounding restaurants, but it's not your typical Haute Falafel.
I picked the red beet salad, which wasn't my thing, but I am not blaming the place for that. The friend I was there with had the chicken satay wrap, and that was pretty good.
Reviewed 13. Oct 2009
I went here once and the food was excellent.
It's not a place to go to for a fancy sit-down dinner, but who cares when the food is this good.
Reviewed 01. Jul 2007
I agree with the previous reviewers.
It exists, it's nearby, it's nice for browsing.
Reviewed 02. Nov 2008
Not bad, not great.
It feels a bit like an American theme restaurant. Nice salmon though.
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
I like this place.
It's simple, very good value for money, fresh.
Reviewed 24. Jun 2007
A pretty good Japanese restaurant.
They do teppanyaki as well as running sushi.
Reviewed 28. Apr 2007
Remember, people: in Austria, 'laufen' means 'running', not 'walking'.
It's different in Germany. Me and the good people in this store wasted about 30 minutes of our lives because of me not knowing this... I went there looking for hiking shoes. They were nice and did a very thorough analysis of my running style though.
Reviewed 18. Oct 2008
Just went here for dinner.
It was super busy, also because they do takeaway. The sushi was very nice though. They don't take credit cards or foreign cards.
Reviewed 19. Dec 2008
Last night we wanted Chinese food (as opposed to Asian) and so we went to Tsing Tao, as we'd heard rumors that this restaurant was often filled with Chinese people.
Sadly, I found the 18 Euro dim sum menu very disappointing. The soup was the slimiest I have ever eaten in a Chinese restaurant (and that's saying something). Then there were 4 or 5 courses of salty, meaty, _things_, either wrapped in sticky dough or greasy batter. After 2 courses I was dying for a vegetable, even eyeing the limp bits of lettuce used as garnish as I heard my arteries slowly clogging. Dessert was, alas, not steamed, but something sweet, covered in greasy batter, and fried. If I want that kind of thing, I can go to an Austrian restaurant.
The waiters were nice, although it took them quite a while before they took the hint and removed the barely eaten final courses.
Reviewed 12. Jan 2009
Great hotel!
Reviewed 24. Apr 2007
I find this place a bit overhyped, but that doesn't mean it's bad.
Their chip card solves a problem I just don't have - what's wrong with waiters? The food is good but not excellent, so their way of cooking is a bit gimmicky. Admittedly, I didn't see this is as a fancy fast food place, but as a weird restaurant. It all depends on how you approach it I guess.
However, their coffee is excellent and the decor and design are nice.
Reviewed 12. Jun 2007
Alright, I'll be the unpopular one: if you're not vegan or vegetarian, there is no strong reason to go this place imho.
Unless it is to meet your vegan and vegetarian friends. If you have any left.
Update: The interior here is much nicer than in the Vegetasia in the 7th though.
Reviewed 27. Jan 2009
We had a nice lunch here coming down from Prague Castle back to the town center.
Reviewed 01. May 2007
A typical non-fancy Viennese food-and-beer place.
Reviewed 08. Apr 2007
A nice wine bar.
I've been here a couple of times. I got some good advice, some nice wines, and the ambience is cool.
Reviewed 18. May 2007
Nice decor.
Pricy, although not exorbitantly so. Friendly waiters. A disappointment: my 'ristotto' was buckwheat, and not creamy at all. What made up for it: the chocolate cake, served in an Illy coffee cup with various luxurious accesories, was to die for. I might go back just for the desserts.
Reviewed 05. Jul 2007
I saw a great live concert here last night.
The location is nice and the sound quality was great. I just wish they would ban smoking and §%$ing Austrian queue-jumpers.
Reviewed 10. May 2007
Nice Italian cafe with decent food, across from the Opera.
The interior is slightly cold.
Reviewed 28. Dec 2006
Durchgestyled pan-Asian :P I held a birthday dinner here once, in a back room where everyone sits on the floor (which is cushioned, and you leave your shoes outside).
I had a good time (it was my birthday after all), but the restaurant was just OK.
Reviewed 01. May 2007
I've only been here once after I went to see Lost In Translation with friends.
The food was good, but not cheap (although not quite as expensive as their sister restaurant Indochine 24).
Reviewed 03. Jun 2009
Ich war in letzter Zeit zweimal dort, und ich fand es OK.
Es ist vom Prinzip her ein 'typischer' Wiener Japaner (d.h. nicht sehr authentisch), dafuer ist das Essen in Ordnung, die Einrichtung ist angenehm, und der Maitre d' (der Inhaber?) ist sehr nett. Der war aber nur einmal dort von die zwei mal dass ich da war.
Im Mittelbereich finde ich Mono eigentlich immer noch besser.
Reviewed 07. May 2007
It's an institution, and they have great ice-cream.
Hard to get a table in summer, but their takeaway ice-cream is great too.
Reviewed 26. Apr 2007
I've only been here once, but I really enjoyed it.
Going there by public transport felt like finding the most secret restaurant in Vienna: one 'street' was like a 1 meter wide path going between and through people's backyards. The food was good, as was the wine.
Reviewed 26. Oct 2008
Nice place.
Apparently they have 1 Haube from Gault Milau. The upstairs dining room feels like a doll house.
Reviewed 23. Dec 2006
I had one of the best meals of my life here - certainly one of the best in Vienna.
The food was good. The interior is Austrian, country-style. The service was beyond excellent (when were you last greeted by name in a restaurant you had only been to once before?). Very friendly, even though me and my friends were dressed like tourists. A big wine list, an even bigger Schnapps list, and they claim to have the right glass for every Schnapps.
Reviewed 21. Jun 2007
The food and coffee are OK but the service can be a bit slow (or actually in one case very slow).
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