Viennese Coffee - Vienna, Austria

A Street in Vienna

To say the "Viennese coffee" is nothing to say. It proves to have many variants as it seems to be affected by its closeness to Italy and the East resulted from historical events. The Viennese Melange, the Viennese Brown (a black coffee with a drop of milk), the Verlängert (mixed with water), the "Fiaker" (with a portion of Rum) - are the simplest variants. In 1685 the first retail licence for a "Turkish drink", coffee, was issued in Vienna.

I've read in the guide-book: "... A cafe is a kind of a living room of a Viennese: having been three times in the same cafe, a person is considered as a haunter, who will be served by a polite waiter with an exquisite courtesy and who can here peacefully enjoy drinking a cup of coffee or eating an apple strudel like in the family circle."
We've visited several cafes only once and in all of them we were being served in a polite manner and with an "exquisite courtesy".

The Demel Confectionery

The Sacher cake was patented in 1832. In 1960 a litigation took place between the Sacher hotel and the confectionery "Demel", where the Sacher cake was made in today's look. Jam is placed in the "Demel-Sacher" in the middle and not on the top, under the icing as by the Saher hotel. Now the Sacher cake has the additional designation "original".
The Demel cake is traditionally hand-made and is called the "Demel-Sacher".
Well, we've tasted the Mini-Sacher (strictly speaking the Demel-Sacher) in the cafe of "Demel". Delicious!

The confectionery "Demel" has existed since 1786; it strictly keeps the tradition. Perhaps already in those days the ordering of cake was as follows: you go to a special room where they are displayed and select which one you want. A special person gives you an corresponding label that you give to the waiter when you make your order.

Inside you can see how cakes are made and admire the well-known personalities made of marzipan and exhibited in the shop. (We saw, for example, Tony Blair made of marzipan.)

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