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When a dish has become the culinary landmark of a city, it is only right and proper that a celebratory temple should be dedicated to it. Many world-famous delicacies have already been honoured in this way. True carpaccio is only available at Harry’s Bar in Venice. The legendary “Petit Nice” in Marseilles is the original home of bouillabaisse, and in order to enjoy proper steak “Café de Paris” you will need to visit the establishment of the same name in Geneva.

Outstanding Viennese food can be savoured at many locations here in our city. However, one thing remained missing over a period of many years. The world capital of the Wiener Schnitzel lacked a single address to define this unique dish and to provide the devotion and awareness needed to raise it onto the pedestal it deserves to occupy. Meissl & Schadn on Schubertring is dedicating itself to this noble task.

Our restaurant bears a traditional name, and in a sense it represents a perfect reminder of everything which made Viennese cuisine great and famous in the first place. When the historic Meissl & Schadn Hotel and Restaurant opened in 1896, fin-de-siècle Vienna was effectively the centre of the world. Stefan Zweig, Gustav Mahler, Arthur Schnitzler and Sigmund Freud were the great spirits of the age. They all came to dine at Meissl & Schadn because it was a place where food was served up with quintessential elegance and ease. We are delighted that artists and creative people still hold Meissl & Schadn in high regard today. Some of them have helped to shape this book.