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.
Where to eat it: 3 restaurants across 1 city.
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.
Common allergens: Gluten, Egg, Dairy
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.
Signature drink: Buchteln
Tip: Buchteln are served from 20:00 nightly, baked to Josefine Hawelka's family recipe; do not arrive earlier expecting them.
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.
Signature drink: Grosser Brauner
Tip: Open daily 07:30 to midnight; the front-room bench seats face the Burgtheater across the Ring.
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.
Signature drink: Melange
Tip: The carambole tables at the back are still in play; ask the kitchen for a Sperl Torte with your Melange.
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