Café Landtmann

Café Landtmann opened on the Ringstraße at the Burgtheater corner in 1873 and has been the kaffeehaus of Vienna's political and cultural establishment ever since. Sigmund Freud took his coffee here daily for thirty-six years; Burgtheater actors still file in after performances; the Federal Chancellery is six minutes' walk west, which makes the morning regulars half political-press, half senior civil service. The room is the most formal of the central kaffeehaus institutions — chandelier-lit, brocade banquettes, the Herr Ober register taken seriously — and the kitchen runs an unusually serious full menu (Tafelspitz, Wiener Schnitzel, Beuschel) alongside the pastry case. The summer terrace on the Ring is one of the most photographed café terraces in Europe.