Vienna
Imperial evenings. 14 places, chosen and checked for 2026.
Vienna is imperial elegance in daily use: the Sacher opposite the Opera, two three-star restaurants, Adolf Loos's tiny American Bar and the oldest golf club in Austria in the Prater.
Hotel Sacher Wien
Opposite the State Opera since 1876, still family-owned, and home of the original Sacher-Torte. Its Blaue Bar is a Viennese institution.
Hotel Imperial
A Ringstrasse palace built in 1863 for the Duke of Württemberg and a hotel since 1873, the traditional address of state visitors to Vienna.
Rosewood Vienna
Opened in 2022 in a 19th-century building on the Petersplatz, beside St Peter's Church, with a rooftop bar over the old town.
Steirereck im Stadtpark
Vienna's most celebrated table, a glass-walled dining room on the edge of the Stadtpark. Heinz and Birgit Reitbauer cook modern Austrian cuisine from regional produce, and the restaurant is famous for its bread trolley and its cheese cart.
Amador
Juan Amador's restaurant lies in a vaulted cellar in the wine village of Grinzing, on the city's northern edge. Spanish-born, German-trained cooking of great precision, and one of only two three-star tables in Austria's capital.
Konstantin Filippou
Konstantin Filippou's Greek-Austrian tasting menus, served in a calm, modern room on the old city ramparts near Schwedenplatz.
Silvio Nickol Gourmet Restaurant
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.
Mraz & Sohn
A family restaurant run by Markus Mraz and his sons, known for playful, inventive menus far from the tourist centre.
Legendary bars in Vienna
Kruger's American Bar
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.
Cigar Lounge, Palais Hansen Kempinski
A quiet lounge off the lobby of the Palais Hansen Kempinski, with staff on hand to suggest pairings.
