Café Griensteidl is a famous Austrian coffee house with a long tradition reaching back into the 19th century. Many celebrities have been drinking their coffee here, and here you can taste a mixture of Austrian cakes and coffee. Some of the artists who have visited and used Cafe Griensteidl as their second home: “Peter Altenberg, Hermann Bahr, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Karl Kraus, Fritz Kreisler, Felix Salten, Arthur Schnitzler, Arnold Schönberg, Hugo Wolf, Rudolf Steiner and Stefan Zweig. The location is perfect at the Michaelerplatz, just by the entrance to Hofburg.
Café Griensteidl
Michaelerplatz 2 1010 Wien, Austria
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I visited this coffe house not long ago, and it was terrible. The location and the atmosphere was nice, but the service was slow and grumpy and the cakes were average. We had an Eszterhazy cake for example which tasted one thing; butter. Not a good experience, so next time we will go somewhere else for cakes and coffee in Vienna!
We always like the grinsteidl very much. Service is like everywhere in Vienna a little bit arrogant but still friendly.