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A whole apricot wrapped in a soft potato or quark dough, boiled, then rolled in golden butter-toasted breadcrumbs and dusted with icing sugar.
Marillenknoedel are a Bohemian-Viennese tradition tied to the Wachau valley's apricot season in July. The dish travels onto every Wiener Beisl carte during the summer apricot weeks. Vollpension on Schleifmuehlgasse runs the canonical home-cook version with quark dough; Steirereck's tasting menu has lifted the dish into a fine-dining course in season.
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Gasthaus Poeschl on Weihburggasse in Vienna's first district is a Hermann Czech-renovated Beisl turning out the canonical Viennese carte, with Wiener.
OrderWiener Schnitzel; the Backhendlsalat is the lunch alternative.
TipOpen Monday to Saturday 12:00-23:00, kitchen to 22:00; book the back room for a quieter table.
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.
Plachutta on Wollzeile in Vienna is the canonical Tafelspitz address, the boiled-beef pot served in copper pans with rösti, apple horseradish.
OrderTafelspitz vom Schulterscherzel; the cut Franz Joseph is said to have favoured.
TipOpen daily 11:30-23:30; the kitchen runs lunch through dinner without a break.
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.
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