A Pfefferoni from a Shredder
A new restaurant with a Brettljause in Vienna – hooray! Well, it can very well be that Steierhof has been around for a while, but either did not... Read more →
Nice and Cheap
Weinviertel, the part of Lower Austria to the north of Vienna, is full of identical villages with vast fields separating them. Bad Pirawarth is one... Read more →
Teamwork
There can be no discussion that a sufficient variety is one of the key characteristics of a good Brettljause. If not for the different types of... Read more →
A Jause in Winter Wonderland
What? A week-long holiday and only one Brettljause, hastily squeezed into the last day, just before catching a bus back to Vienna? What is up with... Read more →
Brettljause Awards 2021
At this time a year ago I was really hoping that 2021 would bring recovery from the rather dismal COVID-hit Brettljause year 2020. As it usually... Read more →
The Year’s First
Almost exactly five years after my last visit to Stoiber, I went there again (finding a good Heuriger on the 2nd of January is never an easy task)... Read more →
The Goose of 2021
Compared to the turbulent 2020, 2021 was a rather quiet year from the goose perspective. In 2020, a lockdown arrived so early and so suddenly that... Read more →
The Dark Heuriger
Just one month of lockdown was enough for me to forget not only what it is like to eat at a Heuriger but also the basic COVID-19 regulations. It... Read more →
The Sunset Goose
Mirli calls itself, not particularly modestly, “the nicest place in Vienna Woods.” Judging by the number of cars outside, it is certainly one of... Read more →
A Booked Goose
Few things in the world are worse than reserving a table at a restaurant two weeks in advance just to discover upon the arrival that it is nearly... Read more →
A Countryside Goose
There is a popular misconception that the countryside is full of hardly known yet brilliant restaurants waiting to be discovered. The more distant a... Read more →
A Noisy Goose
When I visited Gmoa Keller three years ago, my impression was generally positive. Unfortunately, it was the very end of the goose season, and... Read more →