You are in: Cafe Central, Vienna
Café Central, Vienna
Herrengasse 14, A-1010 Wien, Tel: 533 37 64 26, Website: www.palaisevents.at, U-Bahn: Herrengasse, Open: 8am–8pm Mon–Sat and 10am–6pm Sunday. All major credit cards accepted
Once the favoured haunt of Leon Trotsky, the Central was, for many years, the café where Vienna’s intellectuals came to linger and decide how to put the world to rights. Nowadays, it’s tourists rather than revolutionaries who dominate, eagerly looking for a taste of Viennese café society. The interior is certainly impressive, having emerged from a brief closure in 2002 for renovation. And, while coffee, cakes and strudel are fine too, they can’t quite match the splendour of the architecture itself.
