Eating and drinking in Austria can become yet another attraction of the land. Austrian, and in particular, Viennese cuisine has been largely influenced by South-Eastern European cuisine, to be more exact culinary traditions of Hungary, Serbia and Romania. When you travel Austria, make sure you taste the famous Austrian desserts and cakes praised all over the world.
Before you set off to travel Austria, it would be a good idea to get to know national specialties better so that you feel confident in restaurants and cafés on hearing unfamiliar dish names. Some tips from our site for you to bear in mind: the main meal of the day is lunch and waiter service is to be expected in all the restaurants (you will be asked to settle the bill with the arrival of drinks); it is usual to tip waiters even if their service is included in the bill.
When you travel Austria, eating out can be a kind of cultural event in itself if you choose to visit some of the finest restaurants in Vienna, for example, like Le Ciel, voted best choice of 2005, Steirereck, famous for its impressive wine cellar holding over 30,000 bottles, Drei Husaren, where beautiful Damen come to dine after an opera performance, or Lebenbauer with a great variety of amazing vegetarian dishes.
Highest quality level of both service and food, elegant décor of the interior and spectacular views over the city that open up before your eyes when you're sitting on a rooftop terrace bathing in the summer sun's gentle evening light – isn't this enough to have you forever charmed with Austria?
When you travel Austria, be sure to find in the menus of Austrian food restaurants such specialties as the Tafelspitz (boiled beef), Wiener Schnitzel (fried veal escalope in bread crumbs), Goulash (beef, onion, pepper and paprika), Powidl (plum stew) and of course, Apfelstrudel (the classic pudding which makes my mouth water just as I pronounce it).
Some national drinks worth tasting when you travel Austria are excellent local wines (mostly, white) like Riesling and Veltliner, Obstler (a strong drink made by distilling fruit), and "Mélange" coffee (that will do great with a strudel)... Consider also spending an evening in a beer garden.
Travel Austria, get to know its cuisine, and the taste of the days spent here will stay with you for years.
You will also see that eating on your family vacation becomes a lot more exciting when you go on a self catering holiday.
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