Vienna tips
Vienna tips
123 places in Vienna we like to recommend to our guests.
- 1st District (Inner City)
- Art
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- Church concerts
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- Modern & Contemporary
- Museums
- Nature & Children
- Palace and hall
- Sausage Stands
- Shopping
- Snack bar
- Sustainable & Distinctive
- The regular season
- Traditional Bakeries
- Vegetarian & vegan
- Viennese classics & modern tavern cuisine
- Viennese Taverns & Wine Bars
- Wellness & Natural Products
- Wine & Delicatessen
Wilhelm Jungmann & Neffe
Vienna's oldest fabric shop and a former imperial and royal purveyor to the court, with a sales room from 1881 that has barely changed.
Albertinaplatz 3, 1010 WienRead moreBonbons Anzinger
A small sweet shop on Albertinaplatz with truffles, pralines, Mozartkugeln and old-fashioned candies.
Tegetthoffstraße 7, 1010 WienRead more
Organ at eight in the Michaelerkirche
Saturday at eight, from June to September: half an hour on the Sieber organ of 1714, the largest baroque organ in Vienna. The instrument …
Michaelerplatz 5, 1010 WienRead more
Chamber music in the Sala Terrena
The oldest concert room in Vienna, an oval frescoed hall with a cupola and thirty-five seats. Mozart lived and played music here in 1781. …
Singerstraße 7, 1010 WienRead more
High Mass at the Augustinerkirche
Sunday at eleven, two minutes from the Hofburg: a complete orchestral mass by Mozart, Haydn, Schubert or Beethoven, with the choir, soloists and orchestra …
Augustinerstraße 3, 1010 WienRead more
Early music at the Ruprechtskirche, in summer
Vienna's oldest church, Monday and Tuesday at half past seven, from early July to early September. An hour of music from the middle ages …
Ruprechtsplatz 1, 1010 WienRead more
Klangkultur at the Minoritenkirche
The address we missed the longest ourselves. All year round at eight, about seventy minutes, 29 to 65 euro. What is played is real …
Minoritenplatz 2A, 1010 WienRead more
Palace concerts at Schönbrunn, the Orangery
Every evening at half past eight in the Orangery, where Mozart was set against Salieri in 1786. Mozart in the first half, Strauss in …
Schönbrunner Schloßstraße 47, 1130 WienRead more
MuTh, the concert hall of the Vienna Boys’ Choir
If you want to see the choir and not only hear it, go to their own hall by the Augarten. A Friday afternoon series, …
Am Augartenspitz 1, 1020 WienRead more
Vienna Boys’ Choir at the Hofburgkapelle
Sunday, quarter past nine, since 1498. This is not a performance, it is a mass: a complete setting by Mozart, Haydn or Schubert, sung …
Hofburg, Schweizerhof, 1010 WienRead more
Vienna Mozart Concert at the Musikverein
The Golden Hall is the Golden Hall, there is no arguing with that. Mozart and Strauss, thirty-three performers in period costume, around one hundred …
Musikvereinsplatz 1, 1010 WienRead more
Musikverein, the regular season
The best kept tip in the city is not on any poster: returned tickets. When someone cannot use a seat they hand it back …
Musikvereinsplatz 1, 1010 WienRead more
Wiener Konzerthaus, the regular season
For everyone under thirty: remaining tickets at twenty euro, available thirty minutes before the start at the Ticket and Service Center, with proof of …
Lothringerstraße 20, 1030 WienRead more
Vienna State Opera, the standing places
The State Opera is not a nightly concert for visitors, it is one of the great opera houses of the world, and it lets …
Opernring 2, 1010 WienRead more
Spanish Riding School, if you would rather watch movement
Not a concert, but the most common mix-up in conversation. The performances in the winter riding hall of 1735 are accompanied by Viennese classical …
Michaelerplatz 1, 1010 WienRead more
Classic Ensemble Vienna at the Peterskirche
The best rated address among the evening concerts in Vienna, and that across more than a thousand reviews. An hour of Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart …
Petersplatz 1, 1010 WienRead more
Vivaldi at the Karlskirche, Orchester 1756
The Four Seasons on period instruments, in the domed church on Karlsplatz, a few steps from Vivaldi's grave. Around seventy-five minutes, no interval, no …
Karlsplatz 1, 1040 WienRead more
The Four Seasons in St Stephen’s Cathedral
On Friday and Saturday evenings in the summer half of the year: Bach and Vivaldi inside the cathedral, played by the Harmonia Ensemble Wien. …
Stephansplatz 3, 1010 WienRead more
Eine kleine Nachtmusik at the Kapuzinerkirche
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at seven, directly above the Imperial Crypt on the Neuer Markt. Mozart, Bach, Schubert and Vivaldi, sixty minutes, played by …
Tegetthoffstraße 2, 1010 WienRead more
Weibel’s Wirtshaus
Weibel’s Wirtshaus is located just a few steps from St. Stephen’s Cathedral, yet tucked away in a quiet side street that is usually known …
Kumpfgasse 2, 1010 WienRead more
Steirereck in Stadtpark
Austrian cuisine is reimagined here – with deep respect for its roots and the courage to innovate. Steirereck works closely with producers who craft …
Am Heumarkt 2A, 1030 WienRead more
Restaurant Konstantin Filippou
Reduced to the essentials, yet full of flavor. Konstantin Filippou cooks with Mediterranean influences and an impressive clarity. His dishes are uncompromising – not …
Dominikanerbastei 17, 1010 WienRead more
Silvio Nickol at Palais Coburg
Two Michelin stars, a historic palace, and a cuisine that thinks internationally but never forgets its roots. Silvio Nickol manages to bring precision and …
Seilerstätte 3A, 1010 WienRead more
Zum Schwarzen Kameel
Das Schwarze Kameel is a Viennese institution—and has been since 1618. What began as a delicatessen has remained one of the city's great meeting …
Bognergasse 5, 1010 WienRead more