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Best Cafés in Austria (2026)

Coffee shops, bakeries, tea rooms and dessert spots for breakfast, a light lunch or a break between sights.

6 places · Updated October 27, 2026

Our top 3 cafés in Austria

  1. Café Sacher Wien Grand café and patisserie, Innere StadtThe café of the Hotel Sacher opposite the State Opera, home of the Original Sacher-Torte first created by the 16-year-old Franz Sacher in 1832.
  2. Demel Historic confectioner and café, Innere StadtThe former imperial and royal court confectioner on the Kohlmarkt, serving cakes, pastries and Kaiserschmarrn since 1786 in rooms close to the Hofburg.
  3. Café Sperl Traditional Viennese coffee house, MariahilfA coffee house of 1880 near the Naschmarkt with its original interior, marble tables, Thonet chairs and billiard tables, seen in the film Before Sunrise.

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2. Demel

Historic confectioner and café$$$Innere Stadt

The former imperial and royal court confectioner on the Kohlmarkt, serving cakes, pastries and Kaiserschmarrn since 1786 in rooms close to the Hofburg.

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3. Café Sperl

Traditional Viennese coffee house$$Mariahilf

A coffee house of 1880 near the Naschmarkt with its original interior, marble tables, Thonet chairs and billiard tables, seen in the film Before Sunrise.

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4. Café Hawelka

Traditional Viennese coffee house$$Innere Stadt

A dim, picture-lined coffee house off the Graben, run by the Hawelka family for some 80 years and long a meeting place for Vienna's writers and artists.

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5. Café Landtmann

Grand Ringstrasse café$$$Innere Stadt

An elegant Ringstrasse café open since 1873, next to the Burgtheater and facing City Hall, once frequented by Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann and Gustav Mahler.

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