AUSTRIAN COFFEEHOUSE - CLASSICS
COFFEE HOUSE IS EVERYWHERE. Thus a chapter is in the Friedrich Torbergs's legendary book " the aunt Jolesch " which describes very well the meaning of the " Viennese coffee house ". In the 19-th century this coffee house type spread out in all Austrian lands, so that from the Viennese coffee house an Austrian institution became. An institution whose classical coffee specialities are worldwide unique in her variety and refinement.
ORIGINELLES & SPECIALITIES
THE COFFEE HOUSE was always a meeting place for Künster, man of letters, intellectuals and "originals". The individualists who were not content with the huge number of the existing coffees developed her own variations. The probably best known ones are of the "Obermayer" - named according to a member the Viennese member of a philharmonic orchestra - as well as the "hasty Neumann" who was invented by a habitué of the legendary café Herrenhof.
COFFEE COLD SERVED
DO THEY KNOW THE WINGED WORD that iced coffee sits up and begs? Whether this is now one of the numerous legends which entwine themselves round the strength and the effect of the coffee or whether to the facts corresponds, is dahingestellt.
Fact is that there is probably no bigger pleasure for the true coffee connoisseur, than to enjoy the stimulating effect of a cold-served coffee during a hot summer day.
FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
COFFEE IS A LUXURY which takes pleasure to worldwide popularity. And although the Austrian coffee culture is one most varied and most complex of the world, some incomer " coffee specialities of big popularity take pleasure in our land. Did you know, by the way, that the name "Cappuccino" is probably descended from the "Capuchin"? He originated about 1850 in Milan when officers Austrian there ordered her "Capuchin"...