Vienna Food Tour

We decided to try a Vienna Food Tour.  The tour promised to show markets and restaurants off the "tourist" track and in a few different districts.  We woke up Saturday morning, having already paid,  to pouring rain unlike any we had seen the previous five weeks in Vienna.  Undeterred, we dressed in layers, grabbed our umbrellas and headed downtown.

Our guide, Will - a British ex-pat, met the group at the 9:00 am start time after being out at the pubs all night.

We started in the first district at Café Korb where we had schnittlauchbrot (above) and a melange.  We also had kaiserschmarren, Austria's version of pancakes.  They looked like scrambled eggs but we all loved them.

We took the ubahn a few stops to the seventh district where we walked through Viktor Adler Markt and had  peaches, plums and zweigelt grapes.

Wurstelstands are sprinkled all over Vienna.  Our guide explained the the good ones have people hanging out outside.  He took us to one for kasekrainer - a bratwurst filled with cheese, waldviertler -  a dark and crispy sausage and debrenziner - a spicy sausage.

We stopped at a Turkish bakery, Oz Aslan for baklava.  Vienna has a large immigrant population so one can find great Turkish food.

Bakeries are everywhere here.  We stopped in Groissbock for a krapfen, a cream or jelly filled donut, and mohnzelt, a poppyseed dessert.

Finally, we went to the tourist filled Naschmarkt where we had Zotter chocolate (in a future post I will tell you how amazing this chocolate is as we went to the factory for the day).