Averageness an der Ybbs
Waidhofen is a lovely town, but their local Heuriger did not look like much even from the outside. What I saw inside was a smallish, rather dark room... Read more →
A Pickle-heavy Jause
It is suspicious to visit a Heuriger on a Friday evening and find it almost empty, not counting an odd family, only one member of which dared... Read more →
A Perfect Jause Product
Blauensteiner is a known place in an unknown village. I was unlucky enough to arrive one hour before the opening and bumped into a local old man on a... Read more →
A Cheeseless Jause
The area near the Hohe Wand continues to surprise by its good food and bad drinks. Haselbacher is a rather inconspicuous Heuriger in a slightly dull... Read more →
An iPod Jause
Waitresses taking orders by using an app on their iPods? Progress has certainly arrived in the little village of Zweiersdorf by the Hohe Wand,... Read more →
A Good Rural Jause
Buschenschank Hauck can be found in the obscure village of Henzing two kilometers from the rather unknown village of Judenau, itself some five or six... Read more →
A Bread Jause
Ströck is a bakery and makes bread. It makes sandwiches as well, but the scarce slices of sausage and cheese they put inside can only mean one... Read more →
A Minimal Jause
It is known that the minimum number of ingredients in a Brettljause is three. Most South Tyrolean Marendes fall in this minimatistic category, and so... Read more →
The Speck Disaster
Normally I start every Brettljause by eating the stuff I do not especially like: liver in any form followed by Blutwurst and jelly. In the case of... Read more →
The Pigs Who Were Loved
Beware: to reach this hidden gem you would require an almost two-hour bus journey from Vienna, followed by a nearly one and a half hour long walk... Read more →
A Bony Bird
This was a totally spontaneous visit, and the fact that Lahodny had a goose proves that the bird was not fresh. On the other hand, it did not look or... Read more →
A Competent End-of-Season Goose
The goose season is almost over, but I continue visiting the acceptable goose places of yesteryear. Exactly one year after the last goose at Plutzer... Read more →