Journal · City guide · Vienna
48 hours in Vienna: where to stay, dine and drink
Cake, coffee-house manners and one of the great tables of Europe. A weekend in Vienna planned from the Atlas.
Where to stay
The Hotel Sacher, opposite the State Opera since 1876 and still family-owned.
Day one
Arrive at the Hotel Sacher in time for a slice of the original Sacher-Torte.
Dinner at Steirereck, the glass-walled dining room in the Stadtpark, famous for its bread trolley and its cheese cart. Then a nightcap in the tiny, mirrored Loos American Bar, designed by Adolf Loos in 1908.
Day two
Lunch at Silvio Nickol in the Palais Coburg, above one of the great wine cellars of Europe.
In the evening, a cigar and a drink at Kruger's American Bar, open since the 1920s.
The addresses
- Hotel Sacher Wien · Vienna
Opposite the State Opera since 1876, still family-owned, and home of the original Sacher-Torte. - Steirereck im Stadtpark · Vienna
Vienna's most celebrated table, a glass-walled dining room on the edge of the Stadtpark. - Loos American Bar · Vienna
A tiny jewel box of onyx, marble and mahogany designed by Adolf Loos in 1908, its mirrors making the room seem endless. - Silvio Nickol Gourmet Restaurant · Vienna
Fine dining inside the Palais Coburg, a 19th-century palace on the city walls, with one of the great wine cellars of Europe beneath it. - Kruger's American Bar · Vienna
One of Vienna's first exclusive bars, open since the 1920s, with leather furniture, wood panelling and a well-stocked humidor of regular, limited and vintage cigars.
