Having been in Vienna for a week, I thought I would comment on the food. In
general, it’s very good. I can’t point my finger at a single bad meal
(although several inappropriate ones — more later). The most common kind of
food that I eat was Italian. As a world cuisine, it has the advantage of being
the least offensive to all concerned. Both resturants that we tried were good;
one of them managed to achieve a feet that I would have not believed possible
and cooked a meal which might just have had too much garlic (gnocchi in
garlic, chilli and olive oil). I eat Austrian food twice. One resturant mostly
served boiled cow; here, I had Chanterelle mushrooms in white sauce which were
nice, although the meal needed more variation. The other was for the
conference dinner — queues were long, everything was meat, with the exception
of fried, battered vegetables. The wine was not very good either. I think beer
would have worked better for a meal consisting largely of bones. In general,
conference meals were good though, although occasionally dull. The salads were
really nice, although they kept running out. I guess the Viennese eat these as
garnish, and served them in quantities appropriate for this.
The two highlights, though, were the the bakeries. I had croissant and coffee
everyday. The coffee was rich, strong and without bitterness, while the
croissants were delicious. The only exception here were the two breakfasts I
had in the Ibis Hotel where I was staying; the croissant were stale and
tasteless. And, finally, last night we found a Japanese. Not the greatest I’ve
ever been too, but it hit the spot. The food was pleantiful, cheap and well
cooked. I ended up having a second main meal, although we split it between two
of us.
Originally published on my old blog site.
