8/22/2023 0 Comments Coffee commercial vienna italy![]() ![]() Before Sunrise, The Crown Prince, and A Dangerous Method, the drama based on Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, each contains scenes shot here at Sperl. More recently, the café has returned to its artistic roots. But it also served regulars with a different type of caché, such as archdukes Joseph and Karl Ferdinand. It mostly ‘housed’ artists up until 1938, including architects, singers, writers and actors. With a history as rich as Sperl’s, it’s not hard to see why. “He’s as old as the café is mine,” says Manfred in his best English. Sun spills from a nearby window onto his suite of papers – the café’s account books, perhaps. In another booth, a white-haired man corrects the angle of his bowtie. A lady cloaked in purple reapplies lipstick, pays her cheque, then disappears beyond the café’s doors. While Gerhard ponders his paper and chooses gugelhupf for morning tea, two patrons play billiards. Vienna, Zweig believes, owes its cultured air to the worldly information provided by houses such as Sperl. “For the price of a cheap cup of coffee, guests can sit for hours with this little offering, to talk, write, play cards, receive post, and above all, consume an unlimited amount of newspapers and journals.” As Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig writes, the Viennese coffee house is a kind of “democratic club” that’s open to all comers. Whether patrons stay an hour or a day, it won’t phase the owners. It’s another world – one just as charming as Vienna’s streets outside. But as patrons sit quietly in private pockets of thought, concentration or conversation, there’s also a feeling of calm. There’s an air of old-world formality here. And to his right, a fanned display of international newspapers, 30 titles to be exact.Ĭafé Sperl, like many of Vienna’s classical coffee houses, is part library, part park, part daytime hotel. To his left, there’s a cabinet lined with Austrian cakes like strudel, soft cheese pie and the marble cake gugelhupf. Dressed in a white shirt, bow tie and black pants, Rainer greets patrons from behind a marble-topped desk. It’s 11am and local museum owner Gerhard Strassgschwandtner takes up a seat at Café Sperl, described by Vienna’s Tourist Office as “Viennese coffee house romance at its finest”.Ī few metres behind him, 46-year-old Rainer Straub mans the ‘concierge’. “I love being here in the morning with just the paper and a coffee. “The difference between Viennese coffee houses and those of, say, Italy or France, is that we take the time to just…” Gerhard inhales, “be slow.”įrom the rim of a chilled waterglass, he lifts a teaspoon and stirs it through the foam of his melange, a slightly weaker version of the cappuccino. The Viennese kaffeehaus elevates coffee drinking to an art form, says Jennifer Pinkerton 100 tips, tricks and hacks from travel insiders.The French brioche can be empty or stuffed with creams, chocolate, jams and marmalades, while the Sicilian one is soaked or filled with granita and gelato. Its shape is roundish and it often has a ball of dough on the surface, similar to a Sicilian brioche with topknots. It has more butter and sugar than its “colleagues” and is softer and more airy. ![]() ![]() The briocheĪ real French brioche is a leavened pastry made with butter, flour, sugar, eggs, yeast, water and lard. The differences between the brioche, the cornetto and the croissant are in the ingredients, their shapes and in their history. A real brioche is different from the cornetto, but beware: neither of them is an honest to goodness croissant. But will they be eating the same breakfast? The answer is yes, both are eating the same thing: calling it brioche is just an improper use of the term, widespread in northern Italy. While in Milan some have breakfast with a cappuccino and brioche, those in Naples are having it with a cappuccino and cornetto. It’s about 8:30 am, and we’re at the café. ![]()
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