Klosterneuburg ★ 4.3
Famous for: Stift Klosterneuburg cellar tour and Sankt Leopold wine tasting
Klosterneuburg's Augustinian abbey north of Vienna runs the country's largest monastic wine cellar, the abbey-side restaurants and Heuriger taverns.
Food destinations within easy reach of Vienna. worth the train, the rental car or the early start.
Worth the trip
Baden bei Wien ★ 4.2
Famous for: Thermalbad lunch, casino dinner, and the spa town's traditional Konditoreien
Baden bei Wien south of Vienna is the Habsburg-era spa town reached by the city's longest tram, the Hauptplatz Konditoreien and the casino restaurant.
Bratislava (Slovakia) ★ 4.3
Famous for: Bryndzove halusky (sheep cheese gnocchi), Slovak white wines from the Small Carpathians
Bratislava on the Danube east of Vienna is the Slovak capital in a one-hour train ride, the old-town Beisl cooking Bryndzove halusky and the Modra wineries.
Salzburg ★ 4.4
Famous for: Salzburger Nockerl souffle and Augustiner Braeustubl beer-garden
Salzburg, 2 hours 25 minutes west of Vienna by Railjet, runs the Augustiner Braeustubl beer garden and a long Konditorei tradition, the Salzburger Nockerl.
Gumpoldskirchen ★ 4.3
Famous for: Heuriger taverns and Thermenregion white wines
Gumpoldskirchen south of Vienna sits on the Thermenregion's main Heuriger row, the small-town wine taverns and Zierfandler white wine a 35-minute S-Bahn.
Duernstein ★ 4.6
Duernstein in the Wachau is the Danube-valley wine village paired with a Wachau Riesling lunch, the Altes Presshaus serving under a centuries-old wine press.
Krems an der Donau ★ 4.5
Krems an der Donau sits at the eastern edge of the Wachau, the wine-and-apricot gateway with a July ALLES MARILLE festival on a 700-metre pedestrian street.