Josefstadt

The 8. Bezirk is the smallest of Vienna's inner districts and the most quietly continuous, narrow streets, Biedermeier facades, the Josefstädter Straße spine, the Theater in der Josefstadt running its 1788 programme largely unchanged. The Albertina-Modern, the Rathaus and the Burgtheater are all within a ten-minute walk. The hood holds the kind of classic Viennese rooms that the rest of the city has lost: long-running Beisl with the boiled-beef-and-horseradish menu still operating, family-run wine bars, the Strudel-and-Mokka kaffeehaus that has not been refurbished since 1962 and does not need to be. The gezgin uses Josefstadt for the lunch that operates outside the Innere-Stadt postcode premium but at the same standard.