Midnight Jause
If you want to experience Aumann’s Brettljause, you have to visit it after 11 p.m. Marketing-wise, it’s a brilliant idea, I think – it took me... Read more →
Green Lake Jause
Here is another proof that to improve the quality of Brettljause experience one just needs to move out of Lower Austria and into Styria. One hour... Read more →
No Surprises from Vienna Woods
The Grammel (baked pig’s fat) is quickly becoming one of my least favorite Brettljause’s ingredients, having surpassed blood sausage and... Read more →
Word Misuse
This is not a Brettljause. There is no Brettl; there is no Jause either, unless your concept of a Jause consists of a few extra-thin slices of Speck... Read more →
Pork and Rabbis
The irony of the Reichsapfel is that it prides itself of serving pork from the Schneeberg area, yet is located in the heart of Vienna’s Jewish... Read more →
A Taste of Voralberg
Ü tries to serve authentic Voralberg dishes, and their Brettljause is positively different from those I tasted in and around Vienna. Best of all, it... Read more →
A Jause of Wrong Accents
Weingut Walter is a cute little place in the tourist-free Strebersdorf, just a few meters up the Bisamberg hill. It is obviously well known among the... Read more →
A Jause with a View Remastered
Two years ago this nice little place belonged to a guy called Hajszan and his friend Neumann, who owned half of the vineyards around, in addition to... Read more →
A Billajause
They should come up with a different name for things like this. A “Billajause,” for example. Or simply write it in English: “Assorted cold cuts... Read more →
A Bio Jause
I don’t have anything against bio stuff. If however I were to name something that would make me choose bio over non-bio, I would come up with two... Read more →
Good Simplicity
Klein Eibenberg is an unsophisticated place. Located in the hills between the towns of Ybbsitz and Gresten and surrounded by farms, it is not a... Read more →
A Slice of Everything
If there is one thing that makes this somewhat remote but always nice-to-visit Heuriger special is its variety of Jausen: I have already been... Read more →