| Vienna
is famous for its cafes. Famed for their fabulous coffee and deserts, they
were - and are - the meeting places of artists and intellectuals attracted
from all over Europe and America. What you encounter now is actually a
cafe renaissance for the cafes went out of style over the period of the
two World Wars. The 1980's, however, saw a resurrected regard for the cafe
and its social and intellectual atmosphere as well as fabulous coffee and
deserts. |
Some
of these popular, and well worth visiting, cafes are:
at Herrengasse 14, famous for its elegant, cathedral-like setting with
its high ceiling and art nouveau frosted glass fixtures.
Cafe Diglas,
at Wollzeile 10, just off Stephansplatz (probably the busiest square in
the city) now so popular for its apple-mango tea - served in Twinings
china - and Kaesebrot.
Cafe Hawelka,
at Dorotheergasse 6, with its art-covered walls, considered one of the
most Bohemian of Vienese cafes.
Cafe Landtmann,
at Dr. Karl Lueger Ring 4, the regular haunt of Sigmund Freud.
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