Cafe Sacher inside Hotel Sacher on Philharmoniker Strasse in Vienna serves the Original Sachertorte under chandeliers across from the State Opera, the dispute with Demel settled by the 1963 court ruling.
Tip: The slice with whipped cream sells out by 17:00 on busy days; arrive before the matinee crowd.
Address: Philharmoniker Strasse 4, 1010 Wien, Vienna
Cafe Landtmann on Universitaetsring in Vienna has poured at the Burgtheater corner since 1873, Sigmund Freud's preferred coffeehouse with a long carte of cakes and a serious lunchtime kitchen.
Signature drink: Grosser Brauner
Tip: Open daily 07:30 to midnight; the front-room bench seats face the Burgtheater across the Ring.
Cafe Hawelka on Dorotheergasse in Vienna has run since 1939 under three generations of the Hawelka family, the late-evening Buchteln the post-war haunt of Andy Warhol and Arthur Miller.
Signature drink: Buchteln
Tip: Buchteln are served from 20:00 nightly, baked to Josefine Hawelka's family recipe; do not arrive earlier expecting them.
Cafe Prueckel on Stubenring in Vienna has poured since 1903 between the MAK and the Stadtpark, the 1950s Oswald Haerdtl interior the city's most intact mid-century Kaffeehaus.
Signature drink: Melange
Tip: Open daily 08:30 to 22:00; piano music plays Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 19:00 to 22:00.
Cafe Braeunerhof on Stallburggasse in Vienna's first district was Thomas Bernhard's preferred coffeehouse, the Saturday-afternoon orchestra still playing waltzes for the regulars on the bench seats.
Signature drink: Melange
Tip: Saturday 15:00 to 18:00 the small classical orchestra plays; arrive early for a seat by the windows.
Cafe Schwarzenberg on Kaerntner Ring in Vienna opened in 1861 as the oldest Ringstrasse Kaffeehaus, the front-window seats overlooking the Schwarzenbergplatz tram lines.
Signature drink: Einspaenner
Tip: The terrace at the front catches the Ringstrasse trams; sit inside for the original 1861 interior.
Cafe Landtmann on Universitaetsring in Vienna has poured at the Burgtheater corner since 1873, Sigmund Freud's preferred coffeehouse with a long carte of cakes and a serious lunchtime kitchen.
Signature drink: Grosser Brauner
Tip: Open daily 07:30 to midnight; the front-room bench seats face the Burgtheater across the Ring.
Cafe Sperl on Gumpendorfer Strasse in Vienna's Mariahilf has poured since 1880, the bentwood Thonet chairs, parquet, and carambole billiards tables the canonical 6th-district Kaffeehaus.
Signature drink: Melange
Tip: The carambole tables at the back are still in play; ask the kitchen for a Sperl Torte with your Melange.
Cafe Hawelka on Dorotheergasse in Vienna has run since 1939 under three generations of the Hawelka family, the late-evening Buchteln the post-war haunt of Andy Warhol and Arthur Miller.
Signature drink: Buchteln
Tip: Buchteln are served from 20:00 nightly, baked to Josefine Hawelka's family recipe; do not arrive earlier expecting them.
Cafe Prueckel on Stubenring in Vienna has poured since 1903 between the MAK and the Stadtpark, the 1950s Oswald Haerdtl interior the city's most intact mid-century Kaffeehaus.
Signature drink: Melange
Tip: Open daily 08:30 to 22:00; piano music plays Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 19:00 to 22:00.
Cafe Braeunerhof on Stallburggasse in Vienna's first district was Thomas Bernhard's preferred coffeehouse, the Saturday-afternoon orchestra still playing waltzes for the regulars on the bench seats.
Signature drink: Melange
Tip: Saturday 15:00 to 18:00 the small classical orchestra plays; arrive early for a seat by the windows.
Cafe Schwarzenberg on Kaerntner Ring in Vienna opened in 1861 as the oldest Ringstrasse Kaffeehaus, the front-window seats overlooking the Schwarzenbergplatz tram lines.
Signature drink: Einspaenner
Tip: The terrace at the front catches the Ringstrasse trams; sit inside for the original 1861 interior.
