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The Vienna Tourist Board Recommendations

Vienna’s gastronomic scene

Viennese cuisine is known around the world and has a good international reputation. It is the only cuisine in the world to be named after a city. Traditionally, Vienna’s culture of pleasure is found in the down-to-earth inn (Viennese bistro), but sophisticated dining also makes reference to Viennese cuisine, modernizing and perfecting it to the highest standard. It is represented by well-known restaurants such as the Steirereck im Stadtpark, while Viennese cuisine also makes it way into Restaurant Walter Bauer, Zu den 3 Hacken, Zum Schwarzen Kameel and Mraz & Sohn.

As a world city, Vienna also offers the very best in international cuisine, from Italian (such as at RieGi or Fabios) to Asian (Kim kocht). In 2010, shooting-star Konstantin Filippou has cooked his way to a Michelin star with his Mediterranean cuisine at Novelli. Indochine 21 has surprised since autumn 2010 with a new interior and menu. Wini Brugger goes for purism at Indochine 21, not only with the furnishings, but also the French-Vietnamese cuisine.

New hotspots

A range of new luxury hotels will also shortly see the opening of a few more luxury restaurants in Vienna. From December 2010, Antoine Westermann cooks at the new 5-star hotel Sofitel Vienna on the Danube Canal and brings three Michelin stars with him for the French-inspired restaurant Le Loft.

The Asian luxury hotel chain Shangri-La, which is opening an establishment on Vienna’s Ring in 2011, has also caught a star chef for itself. The chef de cuisine of the hotel’s gourmet restaurant is Joachim Gradwohl, formerly the chef at Meinl am Graben. The restaurant at Palais Coburg will also become a gourmet temple again after its reopening in 2011, with chef de cuisine Silvio Nickol.

If you’d like to experience the multiple-award winning chef Christian Petz in unusual surroundings, then head for the unconventional restaurant Holy Moly on board the Badeschiff. Right next door, at the Motto am Fluss, young Mario Bernatovic is busy at the stove. The restaurant in the new landing stage for the fast catamaran to Bratislava (Twin City Liner) opened in July 2010 and serves its guests on two levels.

Culinary Event tips

Twice a year (in February and at the beginning of July), Vienna’s gourmet scene can be put to the test during the Dining City Restaurant Week. Selected top-class restaurants offer guests a menu at a discounted price. It’s a unique opportunity to get to know new top restaurants.

www.diningcity.com

Vienna is also the only city in the world to have winegrowing of note within the city limits. This autumn is entirely in the spirit of Vienna Wine – with numerous events from wine tastings to vineyard hikes. From the end of October, the Junger Wiener, the precursor to the new wine vintage, conquers the city and provides cheerful pleasure and fresh momentum in dining establishments and heurige alike.

All Junger Wiener will be presented in the main courtyard of the MuseumsQuartier beginning at 6:00 pm on 11 November 2010.

Vienna’s Naschmarkt has become a true gourmet strip in recent years. No matter what visitors are in the mood for – they’ll find it at the Naschmarkt: oysters and champagne, exotic fruits or authentic cuisine from every country imaginable.

Restaurant tips

Le Loft at Sofitel Vienna

On the 18th floor of the building designed by leading architect Jean Nouvel, chef de cuisine Antoine Westermann combines French elegance with haute cuisine.

Praterstraße 1, 1020 Vienna

www.sofitel.com

Shangri-La

Joachim Gradwohl, the former acclaimed chef de cuisine at Meinl am Graben, returns to luxury dining at the Shangri-La in 2011.

Schubertring 5-7, 1010 Vienna

www.shangri-la.com

Palais Coburg

Under Silvio Nickol, the Palais Coburg, one of Europe’s most luxurious hotels, will soon once again be home to one of Europe’s leading cuisines. The wine cellar, with more than 60,000 bottles of rare and special wines, is also impressive.

Coburgbastei 4, 1010 Vienna

www.palais-coburg.at

RieGi

The menu at the multiple-award winning RieGi ranges from traditional local cuisine to Mediterranean specialties. Georg Rotböck has been the new chef de cuisine since February 2010.

Schauflergasse 6, 1010 Vienna

www.riegi.at

Indochine21

French-Vietnamese cuisine by Wini Brugger – better than ever before since autumn 2010, with a new design and revised menu.

Stubenring 18, 1010 Vienna

www.indochine.at

Kim kocht

Sohyi Kim is one of the few women on Austria’s top gastronomy scene. The native Korean is known to a wide audience through her TV appearances. Innovative and experimental cuisine based on the five elements. Table reservations for the restaurant Kim kocht are necessary several weeks in advance.