High dining in Vienna will become accessible to people on tighter budgets in February when some of the city’s top restaurants reduce their prices for ten days. It will be the tenth year the Diningcity Restaurant Week has been hosted in Vienna, where dozens of top end eateries will offer menus for the fixed price […]
Producers of the legendary Viennese Gemischter Satz will be able to display the Districtus Austriae Controllatus (DAC) geographical indicator and quality seal on their wines from the 2013 vintage onwards. Increasing numbers of international connoisseurs are discovering this excellent Viennese blended wine. Districtus Austriae Controllatus, or DAC for short, is a geographical indicator exclusively reserved […]
Vienna’s world-famous coffee house culture was added to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2011. And now a list is being drawn up to decide which coffeehouses will be entitled to display the coveted logo. The first batch of Viennese cafés are set to put their logos up in November 2013, showing the rest […]
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Cakes, biscuits and pastries like just those Mami makes are for everyone – including dogs – and can be enjoyed at the newly opened Mami’s Moehspeis in the Margareten district of Vienna. Daniela Sattler, 34, and her husband came up with the idea of a cafe for all whilst on holiday. Sattler said: “We just […]
Vintners in Austria’s wine making heartland of Burgenland have started harvesting the grapes to make ice wine (Eiswein). The sweet dessert wine from the region which is now sold around the world is only made from grapes harvested after temperatures fall below freezing and the grapes are completely frozen through. The sugars and other dissolved […]
An Austrian tradition known as the Imster Schemenlaufen that takes place during the carnival period has been recognised as part of the world’s cultural heritage by UNESCO. It takes place every four years at Imst in Tyrol usually on a Sunday and lasts from early in the morning until exactly 1800. The next one takes […]
Lawyers for Richard Branson’s Virgin firm have forced a small Alpine spirit maker to change the name of their gin after claiming it breached copyright. Austrian Anton Vogl from Guglhof in Hallein, Austria, had patented the name of his “Vir Gin” with the Austrian patenting authorities in 2010 and started putting it on the market […]
The best vodka does not come from Russia – it comes from Austria according to judges at the “International Wine and Spirits Competition” which was held at the Guildhall in London recently. They judged the award-winning vodka produced by Josef Farthofer from Öhling in the Mostviertel as the prize-winning worldbeater – and it achieved top […]
For the seventh consecutive year Vienna’s Marriott Hotel will celebrate the American tradition of Thanksgiving. In celebration of Thanksgiving the Marriott will not only serve up an authentic Thanksgiving dinner at its Parkring restaurant over the Thanksgiving weekend, but also offer a turkey takeaway option and cookery courses with Marriott’s executive chef Manfred Hartl from […]
Thirty Burgenland-based culinary and agricultural establishments have opened their doors to Austrians and tourists with the motto “Come to Paradise and enjoy yourself” for this year’s Enjoyment Days. Enjoyment Days is a celebration in southern Burgenland of all things culinary and the now annual event is well established in the Burgenland calendar, and attracts visitors […]