Posts Tagged as ‘Coffee’

January 5, 2009

Big downturner, Café Ritter

While looking for new jeans I stumbled over an old traditional viennes coffeehouse in the middle of the lively Mariahiflerstraße. Café Ritter is situated in the middle of this shopping street in a wonderfull, splendid house from the 19th century.
The café is one large, L-shaped room with a high, stucko panneled cieling. So it could [...]

November 18, 2008

Café Sperl, actually with fine coffee

At last, I found an old, traditional viennese “Kaffeehaus” which serves good coffee, it´s the Café Sperl in Gumpendorferstraße 11.
Café Sperl is located near to the Naschmarkt (a marketplace which I should portrait very soon), infamous shopping-mekka Mariahilferstraße and the inner city of Vienna.
The Café itself, as you can see on the picture, is kept [...]

July 15, 2008

Coffee at Café Central? Forget it…

Recently I´ve been to the Café Central in Wien Herrengasse for the first time. Of course, I was anxious to see the famous interior of the café that housed famous people like Sigmund Freud, Arthur Schnitzler and Leo Trotzki. And I was anxious tasting the coffee…
Well, as I have already written in another post, the [...]

July 5, 2008

My “the-15-minutes-before-I-go-to-work” heroes…

Once again a post about the endless search of good coffee in Vienna. But this time the search was victorious…
One very important good point about working in the downtown of a city is the high concentration of stores seeling good food and drinks..
Luckily I found a coffee-shop 5 minutes away from my work with exquisite [...]

June 23, 2008

Coffee in Vienna

One of the best sides of Vienna are, no doubt about that, the coffeehouses, BUT, one of the worst sides of Vienna is the coffee served in most coffeehouses…
As a guy grown up near the italian border, I´m used to have high quality coffee – mild, creamy, strong – in many different versions – cappuccino, [...]