Balthasar Kaffee Bar is a cafe room in Leopoldstadt. The cortado is the room's signature pour; the kitchen does a serious avocado toast for breakfast.
Editorially verified May 20, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Why locals love it: Award-winning specialty coffee bar on the 2nd district's main artery that the Innere Stadt crowd has not yet discovered for proper espresso.
Tip: The cortado is the room's signature pour; the kitchen does a serious avocado toast for breakfast.
Address: Praterstrasse 38, 1020 Wien, Vienna
Vinifero Weinbar (Wine bar) in Vienna: Open evenings only Tuesday to Saturday from 17:00; the Thursday weekly tasting is the room's most-booked seat.
Why locals love it: Tiny natural-wine bar tucked on the Karmeliterplatz courtyard side of the 2nd district, most foot traffic walks past on Taborstrasse without noticing.
Tip: Open evenings only Tuesday to Saturday from 17:00; the Thursday weekly tasting is the room's most-booked seat.
Cafe Comet is a cafe room in Neubau. The five-to-ten single-origin lineup changes daily; bring a notebook and stay through the morning brew bar.
Why locals love it: Tiny Fuerth Kaffee tasting room on a quiet stretch of Kirchengasse, the room seats a handful and most Mariahilfer Strasse traffic walks straight past the corner.
Tip: The five-to-ten single-origin lineup changes daily; bring a notebook and stay through the morning brew bar.
Vinifero Weinbar (Wine bar) in Vienna: Open evenings only Tuesday to Saturday from 17:00; the Thursday weekly tasting is the room's most-booked seat.
Why locals love it: Tiny natural-wine bar tucked on the Karmeliterplatz courtyard side of the 2nd district, most foot traffic walks past on Taborstrasse without noticing.
Tip: Open evenings only Tuesday to Saturday from 17:00; the Thursday weekly tasting is the room's most-booked seat.
Cafe Goldegg is a cafe room in Wieden. The pool tables on the back wall are bookable by the hour; the daily Mittagsmenue is the insider lunch.
Why locals love it: Art Nouveau room with green-velvet booths, pool tables and railway-worker history in 4th-district Wieden, far from the Innere Stadt cafe tourist circuit.
Tip: The pool tables on the back wall are bookable by the hour; the daily Mittagsmenue is the insider lunch.
POC People on Caffeine on Schloesselgasse in Vienna's Josefstadt is a tiny specialty-coffee shop in a deconsecrated funeral parlour of a 1727 chapel.
Why locals love it: Tiny specialty-coffee shop in a deconsecrated funeral parlour of the Dreifaltigkeitskirche, easy to walk past without noticing on a quiet Josefstadt side street.
Tip: Look for the chapel windows above the doorway; closed Sundays and Mondays.
Am Nordpol 3 is a viennese room in Brigittenau. A 15-minute walk from Schottenring U-Bahn; come for the Schnitzel and the painted-art walls.
Why locals love it: Bohemian-Viennese tavern in 20th-district Brigittenau on the far side of Augarten, well off the tourist Schnitzel-room circuit but a daily-locals fixture.
Tip: A 15-minute walk from Schottenring U-Bahn; come for the Schnitzel and the painted-art walls.
Gasthaus Wolf is tucked on a wieden side street with no signage from the main artery, locals book and tourists rarely find this serious-offal beisl in 1040.
Why locals love it: Tucked on a Wieden side street with no signage from the main artery, locals book and tourists rarely find this serious-offal Beisl in 1040.
Tip: Dinner only, Monday to Friday from 18:00; the Beuschel and offal carte is the regulars' default order.
