“What starts well must end well,” says the proverb that I came up with a few seconds ago. My visit...
On a Sunday evening Bozen is a dead city. All the shops are closed, most of the restaurants as well,...
When tourists go to Grinzing, Austrians go to Strebersdorf and Stammerdorf (a few go elsewhere, but these are freaks). To...
10-minute walk from the thermal spa of Oberlaa, Weinlaube is a surprisingly nice and quiet restaurant with a worryingly long...
Beinschinken, Rauchschopf, Extrawurst, Wiener, Krakauer, Schweinsbraten, any cheese as long as it does not have any taste – that’s all...
Mayer am Nussberg is a summer wine-drinking location half way down the Kahlenberg and is a little brother of the...
Bad news first: this Brettljause looks much better on paper than in real life. The menu talks about Graukäse (grey...
It’s not storm, really, but Sturm, which means the same thing but also fermented grape juice, served all around Austria...
They say in the newspapers that this year there are especially many wasps in Austria. I hadn’t really noticed that...
There are three wine districts in Vienna: the 19th (Döbling, Neustift, to a slightly lesser extent Sievering) is nearly completely...
Zum Martin Sepp at 16:00 on Tuesdays is quite different from its usual image of noisy musicians, occasionally over-enthusiastic waiters,...
No, you don’t get pita bread and hummus here, and there is plenty of pork on the Brettl to scare...













