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The next stop discovering big metropolises savors takes us to the “City of dreams”: here are the best places to eat in Vienna.
Vienna, capital city of Austria is a big metropolis full of contrasts. This big and multiethnic European city is both keeping the look and the power of the imperial past and the modernity of contemporary architecture and design. It’s called “City of dreams” because the psychoanalysis father, Sigmund Freud, born here, but it’s also called “City of Musicians” because here the great Strauss and Schubert born and many of the greatest compositors of all the time like Mozart
and Beethoven stayed there.
A city full of culture, art and music but also a big modern and smart metropolis. At the top of the ranking listed by Mercer consulting for the sixth consecutive year, Vienna has one of the highest level on life quality. In fact this city is following a well defined plan to improve it with innovations on energy, transport, communications and health sectors.
Austrian cuisine is considered one of the best in Europe, thanks to a big multiethnic gastronomic tradition, full of recipes coming from the countries under the Austrian-Hungarian Imperial Age. A cuisine rich of Bohemian, Hungarian, Jewish and Italian recipes. So here’s our selection of the best places to eat in Vienna to savor the best Austrian recipes. Vienna is also rich of coffee houses, once places for intellectuals and literates, now meeting places and attractions for tourists: you can count more than 650 cafè, between them almost one hundred are keeping the old fashion Viennese style.
Steirereck
A historical place where taste typical Austrian plates, Sterereick has been for a long time the only two Michelin Stars in Vienna, a valid reason for being one of the best places to eat in Vienna. From the great classics to the contemporary plates revisited by the Chef, this excellent restaurant is inside one of the biggest and most beautiful Viennese Park, lo Stadpark. Here you can taste the best wiener schnitzel, a fried beef cutlet, a receipe fought over by italian and Austrian cuisine. History tells that General Radetzky took this receipe in Austria after the occupation in Italy. One of the main characteristics of the Sterereick is the presence of other two rooms: the Red Saloon, an elegant smoking lounge and the Theather, where you can enjoy exclusive private dinners.
Silvio Nickol
Inside the Palais Cuborg, a luxury hotel in Vienna city center, you can find Silvio Nickol another two Michelin stars restaurant, thanks to the omonim Chef who combines in a creative way the aromas and the flavors of excellent ingredients creating innovative and mixed plates that can amaze even the most demanding palate. This restaurant is not only famous for its cuisine, but also for the wine menu: the largest of Austria, claiming rare labels even. The extraordinary location and gastronomic experience make the Silvio Nickol one of the best places to eat in Vienna.
Fabios
Italian restaurant in the heart of Vienna, Fabios wins everybody’s hearts and palates. Thanks to its mediterranean flavors, The Culture Trip elects it one of the best places to eat in Vienna. Reading the menu dishes could seem simple, but the cure and the best italian typical products make an unforgettable dining experience, also confirmed by the most critical italian palates! The location is also cured in the smallest details: modern but elegant, with a touch of glamour enriched by soft lights, leather and wood details.
Kussmaul
The newborn Kussmaul is a sophisticated all in one place: restaurant, cafè and pastry making and shop guided by Chef Mario Bernatovic, a guarantee in the viennese gastronomy. Behind the Momuk Museum, in the open view kitchen of this little but good bistrot, local and organic ingredients meet a variety of vegetables, fruits and flowers. All this different foods combined together in a innovative way, create different flavors from the typical Austrian one. The pastry is composed by tasty pralines and little delicacies, while its famous drinks and cocktails are made with home made liquors and spirits. A unique experience from breakfast until after dinner makes the Kussman one of the best places to eat in Vienna.
Cafè Sacher
We couldn’t forget about the places in which the Vienna’s most symbolic cake is made with the original secret 1830 receipe: the Sacher Cafè. Inside the Sacher Hotel, the Cafè, with the typical magnificent Viennese interior style, is one of the best places to eat in Vienna, but most of all the best place to eat Sachertorte! Like every traditional austrian receipe, the Sacher Cake has an important story, linked to another austrian important person: the Chancellor Metternich. The Chancellor, bored of the same flavors but also very greedy, ask his personal cook Sacher to create something amazing. So the Sacher born, a cake with contrasting flavors because of the chocolate sweetness and the apricot marmelade sourish.
Naschmarkt
Finally the Naschmarkt, former Kärntnertormarkt and Aschenmarkt.
It is the most famous market of Vienna, consisting of more than one hundred stands and local, with a colorful culinary offering ranging from Viennese to Italian, to the Vietnamese and Indian. Becoming a real cult as a meeting place for young audiences – thanks to the locals that have opened in the area over time and the renewed architecture – the Naschmarkt is a paradise of delights from all over the world, where we will find even some of the most renowned restaurants in Vienna. Some examples are the Tewa, which offers organic cuisine, the ON Market, charming outdoor restaurant with artwork on the walls, and the Umar, according to many the best seafood restaurant in town.
Photo credits:
Steirereck
Silvio Nickol
Fabios
Kussmaul
Cafè Sacher
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