Sweet yeasted dumplings, baked together in a hot oven so they pull apart in fluffy squares, filled with apricot jam (Marillenmarmelade) and served from 20:00 onwards with vanilla sauce poured over the top.
Buchteln came to Vienna from the Bohemian half of the empire, becoming a late-night Wiener Mehlspeise served from the Kaffeehaus oven. Cafe Hawelka on Dorotheergasse has run the canonical version since 1939 to a recipe by Josefine Hawelka, the family kitchen turning them out fresh in the late evening from 20:00 onwards.
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Cafe Hawelka ★ 4.5
innere-stadt · Dorotheergasse 6, 1010 Wien
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.
Cafe Sperl ★ 4.5
mariahilf · Gumpendorfer Strasse 11, 1060 Wien
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.
Cafe Landtmann ★ 4.4
innere-stadt · Universitaetsring 4, 1010 Wien
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.