Sunday Morning at Café Central

Champagne and roses
Setting the mood


Enjoying the quiet of the morning


My favorite tables
Left of the entrance


Imperial guests
Awaiting your company


Piano music
In the afternoon


Impeccable service
From early morning on


Coffee Melange galore
Here served at the outdoor tables


Cardinalschnitte with your Melange?


Morning papers anyone?


"... it must be said that the Viennese coffeehouse is a particular institution which is not comparable to any other in the world.


As a matter of fact, it is a democratic club to which admission costs the small price of a cup of coffee. Upon payment of this mite every guest can sit for hours on end, discuss, write, play cards, receive his mail, and, above all, can go through an unlimited number of newspapers and magazines."

Stefan ZWEIG, "The World of Yesterday"

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Peter Altenberg
Kaffeehausliterat
"Because most of his literary work was written while he frequented various Viennese bars and coffeehouses,
Altenberg is sometimes referred to
as a cabaret or coffee house poet.
His favorite coffeehouse was the
Cafe Central,
to which he even had his mail delivered."
(Quoted from Wikipedia)


Courtyard



Handmade chocolate pralines


Nougat wrapped in Cafe' Central's red tin foil
From Cafe' Central's confectionary

**) For more information about Stefan Zweig's Viennese memoirs, click here, please.
More of Merisi's Cafe Central photos can be found here.
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