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Incredible desserts

Austrians like to eat well, and what they like to eat best is dessert. After a delicious soup, and a great Wiener Schnitzel with potato salad, they always have room for an incredible sweets - Sachertorte, Apple Strudel or Gugelhupf, just to name a few.

Austrian Monarchy and culinary influence

Austrian cuisine in general: It is the culinary reflection of an ethnically mixed people who, during the many centuries of the Austrian Habsburg Empire's expansion and contraction, have exchanged culinary know-how with Bohemian-Moravian, Brasilian, Croatian, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Jewish, Mexican, Polish, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swiss, and Turkish cuisine.

Tradition and history

Short overview of tradition and history: For over 600 years, until World War I, the Austrian Empire had extended its national borders into modern Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, former Yugoslavia, Poland, and old geographical areas that were once upon a time called Bohemia and Moravia. It is a multi-ethnic melting pot that includes over 8 million people, who are 99% German-speaking but are not Germans. It is a country of Austrians who speak German with a special, softer accent.

Vienna's unique and international cuisine

Due to the city's historic past steeped in European history, Vienna' s cuisine is unique and international. Viennese specialties were created by, and for, people who were influenced by a monarchic system that until the early part of the last century was among the most influential European political powers and which had cultural ties to Europe as well as the American New World. As Vienna's Habsburg Royal Family was involved in power politics as far away as Spain, its cuisine absorbed many international ingredients.