Here is transparency in action: while sitting at a table in this tiny and, frankly, not particularly cozy Heuriger, you...
It is highly debatable if this “plate of starters” from Augustinerkeller, which is just next to the Albertina gallery, can...
Why would anyone serve a Brettljause with butter but no bread? Because bread costs extra, and they do want you...
2015 was a record year for Brettljausen. With 69 of them tested and reviewed, not a single week passed without...
I have always found that the translation “cold cuts” does not do a Brettljause justice. It is like translating “Speck”...
This was my second walk through the Wachau Valley in its Winterschlaf, and it looked as dead as a year...
As the year draws to a close, and the chances of finding another Martinigansl are approaching zero, it is time...
This year the Viennese authorities made a little-advertised decision that caused me to literally scream “Finally!” Without much fuss, they...
Josefinenalm is a temporary hut built in the inner yard of the old general hospital (now a University campus) just...
Normally a Martinigansl in the middle of December is something unheard of. OK, Schönbrunner Stöckl calls it a „Christmas goose“...
Do you know those little sandwiches (also called canapés) sometimes provided at office parties? Those you can quickly eat with...
It’s not every day that a new restaurant serving a Brettljause-like dish opens in Vienna (heck, it’s not even every...