We’re using fancy words like ‘panache’ because that is what best describes one of Vienna’s oldest traditional coffeehouses. Throwback fact: the store still sells spices like the original version of the place did all those years agoįor nearly 145 years, the famous Cafè Central has been one of the principal places tourists discover the panache of the old Viennese coffeehouse. The whole experience here speaks of spice markets in faraway lands and the elegance of a noble Viennese coffeehouse slash restaurant. It was in 1901 that it got its Art Nouveau interior design and this truly is a pleasure for your sense of sight.
The crowd who run this place have put in great effort to preserve the idea that this should be a place of sensual pleasure that turns on all of your senses. Then a guy named Joseph Stiebitz took it over and formed it into the institution of the city’s dining scene that it is today. It was opened by a guy named Johan Baptist Cameel – yep, no camels here, this is where the name of the place comes from. Its owners actually claim it to be a precious world of unearthly delights…and we’d say, if they deflate this claim from all of the marketing hype, they’d be almost right. Well, Zum schwarze Kameel isn’t just a coffeehouse, but also a highly respected restaurant. Since its beginnings, ‘Zum schwarzen Kameel’ has been a place for those who enjoy the occasional goose liver in their diet, and higher level of service and class with their coffeehouse. Throwback fact: Cafè Hänisch, Kaffeehaus Herzog and the list goes on – the coffeehouse underwent numerous identity changes in its +500 years of its existence
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OK, full disclosure, they played table music in the cafe that stood in the same place before it became the Frauenhuber, but still, two of the most famous names in music busked here! van Beethoven play table music for the dining guests in this café time and again between the years 1782–1791. This applies to the café’s kitchen, as well, with many of the typical Viennese dishes served back then are still being served today (with up to ELEVEN variations of egg dishes).Ĭafé Frauenhuber is not only the oldest coffeehouse in Vienna, but it’s also known for having had W.A. Frauenhuber was one of the first established cafès to bring to life the Viennese coffeehouse culture and is seen as the OGs amongst the scene.īeing in existence for so long, the establishment naturally had to undergo many rounds of renovations, but it managed to uphold its original elegant and traditional interior, nonetheless.
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