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.
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, and chive sauce in a 1010-postcode dining room.
Gasthaus Wolf ★ 4.5
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 and tourists rarely find.
Gasthaus Poeschl ★ 4.4
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, the quiet centre's most reliable mid-priced Wiener Schnitzel.
Cafe Anzengruber ★ 4.3
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 defended Goulash plates.
Glacis Beisl ★ 4.3
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 garden for summer dining.