A beef gulasch slow-cooked with onions, sweet paprika and marjoram into a thick, dark sauce. Served with a Semmel (white roll) and a fried egg on top in the Beisl tradition, or with bread dumplings as the dinner plate.
Gulasch travelled from the Hungarian half of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and became a defining Viennese Beisl dish by the late 19th century. The Vienna version (Saftgulasch) reduces the sauce thicker than the Hungarian original, and the Fiakergulasch adds a fried egg, frankfurter, and gherkin on top. Cafe Anzengruber's Croatian-Viennese kitchen has cooked one of the city's most-defended versions since 1949.
5 editor picks for Wiener Gulasch (Saftgulasch) in Vienna, ranked by editorial score. All Vienna signature dishes · Wiener Gulasch (Saftgulasch) across every city.
Gasthaus Wolf ★ 4.8
wieden · Grosse Neugasse 20, 1040 Wien
Gasthaus Wolf on Grosse Neugasse in Vienna's Wieden cooks classical Beisl plates with a serious offal carte, a wood-panelled side-street room locals book.
Gasthaus Poeschl ★ 4.7
innere-stadt · Weihburggasse 17, 1010 Wien
Gasthaus Poeschl on Weihburggasse in Vienna's first district is a Hermann Czech-renovated Beisl turning out the canonical Viennese carte, with Wiener.
Plachutta Wollzeile ★ 4.6
innere-stadt · Wollzeile 38, 1010 Wien
Plachutta on Wollzeile in Vienna is the canonical Tafelspitz address, the boiled-beef pot served in copper pans with rösti, apple horseradish.
Cafe Anzengruber ★ 4.4
wieden · Schleifmuehlgasse 19, 1040 Wien
Cafe Anzengruber on Schleifmuehlgasse in Vienna's Freihausviertel has been in Croatian hands since 1949, serving Wiener Schnitzel and one of the city's most.
Glacis Beisl ★ 4.4
neubau · Breite Gasse 4, 1070 Wien
Glacis Beisl inside the MuseumsQuartier on Breite Gasse in Vienna's Neubau cooks classical Viennese plates in a tucked-away bistro with a walnut-shaded.