Plekken in Vienna

Mariahilf kaffeehaus since 1880 — UNESCO-listed interior, billiard tables intact.

Innere Stadt post-war intellectual kaffeehaus — Dorotheergasse, the night-Buchteln.

Stubenring kaffeehaus since 1903 — the 1950s interior intact, the live piano three nights.

The schnitzel that overhangs the plate since 1905 — Wollzeile, the original house.

Innere Stadt Wirtshaus — the boiled-beef-and-horseradish kitchen for the audience without four hours.

Haya Molcho's Israeli-Mediterranean original since 2009 — Naschmarkt corner table.

Israeli-Levantine kitchen on the Naschmarkt's eastern row — the Saturday-lunch standby.

The Tian kitchen's casual sister — vegetarian bistro on Spittelberg's cobbled corner.

Neubau corner kitchen — the Saint Ulrich square's all-day Mediterranean bistro.