37 editor picks in Vienna.
37 cafe places in Vienna we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Vienna | Cafe across every city.
The Viennese Kaffeehaus is a way of life: marble tables, newspapers on wooden frames and a cake counter to linger over. Demel, Cafe Sacher Wien, Cafe Landtmann and Cafe Hawelka, all in the Innere Stadt, are the historic institutions. Cafe Sperl in Mariahilf and the bake-with-grandmothers project Vollpension in Wieden show the tradition's living range.
Vollpension on Schleifmuehlgasse in Vienna's Wieden hires Viennese grandmothers and grandfathers to bake the menu of Strudel, Torten and Mehlspeise.
OrderApfelstrudel with vanilla sauce, made that morning by one of the resident grandmothers.
TipThe dining room fills fast on weekends; the Naschmarkt branch at Stand 343 takes the spillover.
Cafe Englaender on Postgasse in the first district is a coffee-house-restaurant with 90 Falstaff points, the room a meeting place for the arts crowd.
OrderWiener Schnitzel for the classics-leaning card; the daily Mittagsmenue is the value play.
TipThe sister Cafe Englaender at Praterstern 9 in the 2nd district runs the same kitchen, easier to walk in on a busy weekend night.
Cafe Tirolerhof on Fuehrichgasse in Vienna's first district has poured Melange since the Kunz brothers took over in 1918, the Art Deco interior restored.
TipOpen daily from 07:00, weekends from 08:00; the house-made apple strudel is the long-standing order.
Demel on Kohlmarkt has been a court confectioner since 1786, the Eduard-Sacher-Torte and Anna-Torte from the K. und K. Hofzuckerbaecker still served.
TipThe first-floor dining room takes the queue; the ground-floor takeaway moves faster for a Sachertorte to-go.
Cafe Sacher inside Hotel Sacher on Philharmoniker Strasse in Vienna serves the Original Sachertorte under chandeliers across from the State Opera.
TipThe slice with whipped cream sells out by 17:00 on busy days; arrive before the matinee crowd.
Cafe Landtmann on Universitaetsring in Vienna has poured at the Burgtheater corner since 1873, Sigmund Freud's preferred coffeehouse with a long carte.
TipOpen 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. At Gumpendorfer Strasse 11.
TipThe 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.
TipBuchteln 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.
TipOpen daily 08:30-22:00; piano music plays Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 19:00-22:00.
Cafe Braeunerhof on Stallburggasse in Vienna's first district was Thomas Bernhard's preferred coffeehouse, the Saturday-afternoon orchestra still playing.
TipSaturday 15:00-18:00 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.
TipThe terrace at the front catches the Ringstrasse trams; sit inside for the original 1861 interior.
Cafe Korb on Brandstaette in Vienna's first district was the 1960s underground-artist hangout, the cluttered Strudel-on-a-counter room now better-known.
TipThe basement bowling alley still runs on Saturday nights; reserve a lane two weeks ahead.
Phil on Gumpendorfer Strasse in Vienna's Mariahilf is a cafe-cum-bookshop-cum-record store, the secondhand sofas and shelves of books for sale a counterpoint.
TipThe books and records on the shelves are for sale; pay at the front counter when you settle the tab.
Cafe Jelinek on Otto-Bauer-Gasse in Vienna's Mariahilf is the under-the-radar Beisl-coffeehouse with a tiled stove in the middle of the room.
TipCash only; the stove in the middle of the room is lit from October through April.
Cafe Museum on Operngasse in Vienna was Adolf Loos's nicotine-stained 1899 design, restored under the Querfeld family and now a serious meal-and-coffee room.
TipWalking distance to the Secession and the Naschmarkt; this is the lunch-and-coffee stop between the two.
Frauenhuber on Himmelpfortgasse opened in 1824, the building's older incarnation hosting Mozart and Beethoven concerts before the cafe took the room.
TipThe chess corner near the window stays free during weekday afternoons; ask for the daily Mehlspeise.
Eiles on Josefstaedter Strasse has run continuously since 1901, the Kunze family's 2016 update keeping the Thonet chairs while updating the kitchen.
TipThe Mittagsmenue is among the city's best-value parliamentary-quarter lunches; the back room is the quietest seat.
Cafe Mozart on Albertinaplatz sits between the Albertina and the Opera, an 1855-founded coffee house with terrace seats facing the museum facade.
TipThe terrace under the chestnut trees is the headline seat in summer; book the inside parlour ahead for the Sacher-Torte on the marble counter.
Cafe Diglas on Wollzeile has worn its 1934-era plush, brass and red-velvet since the Lehar years, the Konditorei counter the room's headline draw.
TipThe piano on the back wall is played weekend afternoons; the cake counter is the takeaway shortcut.
Cafe Diglas im Schottenstift on Schottengasse sits inside the Benedictine abbey's vaulted ground floor since 1888, the cloistered garden a quiet terrace.
TipThe abbey courtyard tables fill on warm Sundays; the vaulted main room takes business meetings.
Aida on Singerstrasse off Stephansplatz is the pink-tiled flagship of the 1913-founded Konditorei chain, the upstairs window a cheap cathedral-view stop.
TipThe upstairs counter is takeaway-fast; the inside parlour seats the wait if you want the Konditorei trolley.
Cafe Goldegg on Argentinierstrasse in Wieden opened in 1910, the carved parlour and brass billiard tables a working-class antidote to inner-city cafes.
TipBilliard tables on the back wall are bookable by the hour; the daily Mittagsmenue is a Wieden insider's lunch.
Cafe Hawelka on Dorotheergasse runs every night until midnight on weekdays and 01:00 on weekends, the famous 22:00 warm-Buchteln service the late fixture.
OrderBuchteln with vanilla sauce
TipBe in the parlour by 22:00 for the Buchteln service; the room fills with the city's old guard.
Cafe Drechsler on Linke Wienzeile by the Naschmarkt runs to midnight every day, the kitchen serving late bar plates next to the signature Drechsler-Spritz.
OrderDrechsler-Spritz and late bar plates
TipThe room peaks after 22:00 on weekends with Naschmarkt-spillover crowds; the kitchen closes 30 minutes before service ends.
Balthasar Kaffee Bar is a cafe room in Leopoldstadt. The cortado is the room's signature pour; the kitchen does a serious avocado toast for breakfast.
TipThe cortado is the room's signature pour; the kitchen does a serious avocado toast for breakfast.
Cafe Comet is a cafe room in Neubau. The five-to-ten single-origin lineup changes daily; bring a notebook and stay through the morning brew bar.
TipThe five-to-ten single-origin lineup changes daily; bring a notebook and stay through the morning brew bar.
Cafe Goldegg is a cafe room in Wieden. The pool tables on the back wall are bookable by the hour; the daily Mittagsmenue is the insider lunch.
TipThe pool tables on the back wall are bookable by the hour; the daily Mittagsmenue is the insider lunch.
POC People on Caffeine on Schloesselgasse in Vienna's Josefstadt is a tiny specialty-coffee shop in a deconsecrated funeral parlour of a 1727 chapel.
TipLook for the chapel windows above the doorway; closed Sundays and Mondays.
Vollpension on Schleifmuehlgasse in Vienna's Wieden bakes Apfelstrudel under €6 a slice, the grandmother-baker social-enterprise cafe a budget alternative.
OrderApfelstrudel and Melange
TipSlice and Melange for under €9; the Schanigarten on the corner opens from April.
Kaffemik on Zollergasse in Vienna's Neubau is the city's longest-running third-wave roastery and cafe, the tiny room off Mariahilfer Strasse a fixture.
TipThe bean lineup rotates weekly; ask for whichever Ethiopian washed lot is on the espresso grinder that day.
Jonas Reindl on Waehringer Strasse in Alsergrund is one of Vienna's most consistent specialty roasters, with a Schottentor cafe and Westbahnstrasse roastery.
TipThe Westbahnstrasse roastery does roastery tours by appointment; book through the website.
Christian Schroedl's Alt Wien Kaffee on Schleifmuehlgasse in Vienna has roasted since 1987, the front-shop in the 4th district one of the earliest specialty.
TipThe Slayer espresso machine at the counter pulls the same beans the wholesale list supplies to 250 cafes.
Balthasar Kaffee Bar on Praterstrasse in Vienna's Leopoldstadt pours award-winning specialty espresso from a marble counter, a tight kitchen for sandwiches.
TipThe cortado is the room's signature pour; the kitchen does a serious avocado toast for breakfast.
Suessmund on Rauhensteingasse roasts on a handmade Greek drum and pours specialty filter, the 2025 shop a roastery-direct alternative to Konditorei cafes.
TipThe single-origin filter changes daily; ask for the recommendation rather than the bean list.
Cafe Comet on Kirchengasse in Vienna's Neubau is the home of Fuerth Kaffee, a small Vienna roaster that keeps five to ten single-origin beans on the bar.
TipThe single-origin filter rotates daily; ask which lot is on the brew bar that morning and have it ground on order for retail.
Coffee Pirates on Spitalgasse in Alsergrund was Vienna's first organic-certified third-wave roastery in 2012, the counter still the AKH-quarter standby.
TipThe Spitalgasse 15 sister shop next door pours filter only and closes weekends; the flagship runs every day.
POC on Schloesselgasse in Josefstadt operates in a former funeral parlour of the Dreifaltigkeitskirche, the small specialty shop pouring single-origin filter.
TipLook for the deconsecrated chapel windows when you arrive; the Saturday queue starts by 10:00.
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