Why would anyone serve a Brettljause with butter but no bread? Because bread costs extra, and they do want you...
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I have always found that the translation “cold cuts” does not do a Brettljause justice. It is like translating “Speck”...
As the year draws to a close, and the chances of finding another Martinigansl are approaching zero, it is time...
Josefinenalm is a temporary hut built in the inner yard of the old general hospital (now a University campus) just...
Do you know those little sandwiches (also called canapés) sometimes provided at office parties? Those you can quickly eat with...
Most Austrian restaurants stops serving goose after the second week of November. A handful continue for one more week. A...
2015 was a record year for Brettljausen. With 69 of them tested and reviewed, not a single week passed without...
This was my second walk through the Wachau Valley in its Winterschlaf, and it looked as dead as a year...
This year the Viennese authorities made a little-advertised decision that caused me to literally scream “Finally!” Without much fuss, they...
Normally a Martinigansl in the middle of December is something unheard of. OK, Schönbrunner Stöckl calls it a „Christmas goose“...
It’s not every day that a new restaurant serving a Brettljause-like dish opens in Vienna (heck, it’s not even every...
The first warning bell tinkled when I called to book a table three hours before arrival and got a jolly...