Vienna's coffee culture, or Kaffeehauskultur ... For something more traditional and still steeped in Viennese history, Café Goldegg maintains old-school charm and is still frequented by locals ...

The pre-eminent Austrian writer Stefan Zweig described Vienna’s coffee houses as an ‘institution of a special kind’. Regarded as a ‘democratic club’ open to everyone, he wrote of the ...

in a Viennese cafe they met: the psychiatrist Sigmund, the seminarian Joseph, the provincial journalist Lev, the painter Adolf, a loser in life. The heroes will drink coffee, which will be ...