Boringer
Augustinerkeller must be a place that quite a few people write home from every day. No, they don’t really write letters or postcards these days,... Read more →
Somewhere in the 11th
If one asks for the main attraction in Simmering, the 11th district of Vienna, most people will answer “the central cemetery.” When pushed, a few... Read more →
Last-minute Jause
After my two short holidays in Salzburg’s Pongau, I think I have understood the main trick of predicting the local weather: use the internet to... Read more →
Das Geisterdorf
The Austrian ski resort of Obertauern must be a very jolly (albeit pricey) place to be in winter. In summer, it’s a real ghost village. Even the... Read more →
Untypical Jause
I suppose calling their dish a “real” (or “typical”) Brettljause of the Pongau region was a sort of an inside joke. The Brettljause of the... Read more →
Hunters’ Lake Jause
Jägersee literally means the “hunters’ lake,” and I suppose there is quite a lot of hunting going on in the region in the short weeks of... Read more →
Speck and Cheese
One day I will prepare a Bretljause map of Austria. It won’t show where the Bretljausen are, however (for that there is a perfectly useful... Read more →
Summer Park Jause
These days the square and the park in front of Vienna’s City Hall are so rarely free of public events of some kind, that sooner or later someone is... Read more →
Garlic Fest
The day after half-exploding striving to finish a Schweinsbraten-heavy Brettljause, I am back in Hopfen & Malz to try their “self-marinated”... Read more →
Schweinsbraten+
Of all the suburbs of Vienna, Kaiserebersdorf in the 11th district is one of the suburbiest. Located behind the central cemetery and just a couple of... Read more →
Long Day, Small Jause
In Vienna’s Spittelberg district of artists and tourists, Amerlingbeisl is probably one of the artiest restaurants, while not being particularly... Read more →
Josef’s Austria
As you may know, I have reviewed Josef’s twice already: for his Spain- and Italy-inspired Jausen. Now the time has come for the third and the final... Read more →