Cafe Central

"The utterly grand café inside the majestic Palais Ferstel is known among pastry-obsessed Wieners for serving the best, flakiest strudel in town." Full review

"The most famous of all Viennese cafés, resurrected in the 1980s and still the most architecturally interesting."

"Made famous by its illustrious guests, the Café Central is right up there with Florian's in Venice." Full review

"Once a grand bank and stock market house, Palais Ferstel opened Cafe Central as its focus in 1876." Full review

"Opened in 1876, Central is perhaps the most traditional—and famous—of the Viennese kaffeehauses." Full review

"Established in 1876 and set in Palais Ferstel, a palatial Italianate mansion, Café Central attracts tourists and locals who dine on Viennese dishes, coffee specialties, and bakery items in the historic setting"

"Maybe the most stunning of the many palatial mid-19th-century commercial edifices around the Freyung section of Vienna’s Inner City, the Italianate Palais Ferstel hosts the ground-floor..." Full review

"The glamorous Café Central is popular with tourists. Guidebooks send tourists to Café Central, where Sigmund Freud was a customer."

"Some of the more famous, such as the Café Central, are a little too busy with people Instagramming their pastries, but many still retain the elegance, charm and atmosphere for which they are famed"

"The grand, nineteenth-century Café Central is a destination in its own right, with memorable surroundings where newspapers are read and fevered artistic or political discussions are had...."