Kokoro Global Bisto - CLOSED

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.

Last night we had the discovery dinner at this magnificent restaurant, after numerous recommendations from asian business partners. The food and service were truly outstanding!

Most of the ingredients are organic and hand picked by the chef each morning at vienna's farmers market.

We will return with some other friends to enjoy their famous Pirate Fish Soup upon returning ti the city.

A. Brogy