Viennese Cuisine Recipes | Soups, garnishes & starters

Viennese cuisine is famous for its large selection of soups and garnishes. Traditionally, soup is often enjoyed as a starter. However, Viennese cuisine has much more to offer by way of delicious starters.

Classic Viennese Beef Soup

Each international cuisine comes up with diverse recipes of soups. But only within the Viennese...

Frittaten (crêpe slivers) à la Sacher

Are you searching for an extraordinary soup add-in? The Viennese cuisine has the answer:...

Semolina dumplings

Semolina is very often used in the Viennese cuisine. But what exactly is semolina? In fact, it is...

Viennese potato soup

In fact, it was not easy for the potato to make its way into Viennese ciusine: In 1588 the botanist...

Veal liver dumplings

The world of dumplings is widespread: They can be savory or sweet, and there are well-known calssics...

Classic Tafelspitz (boiled beef)

Although pork seems ubiquitous in Viennese cuisine nowadays, beef also has a long tradition...

Sacher Tafelspitz aspic with lamb's lettuce

The Tafelspitz – probably Austria’s most popular beef dish – found its way into Viennese...

Onion Quiche „Sacher Eck“

An onion’s preparation is often combined with tears. When the onionskin is wounded, the fruit –...

Baked yeast buns with vanilla sauce à la Sacher

Viennese desserts have mulitcultural origins. The “Buchtel” (yeast bun) for example comes from...

Original Sacher goose-liver cake

Peter Fink, former chef at the Sacher restaurant, had the idea to create a hearty counterpart of...

Plum jam turnovers (Powidltascherl)

The fruity Powidl originally comes from Bohemia and means a special kind of plum jam. „Powidl“...

Egg Dumplings

As one of the oldest symbols of mankind the egg stands for fertility and life in general and is the...