Venues
Here we list some of the venues popular with tourists. For a personal recommendation where to go out to talk to your greeter. She or he will tell you her / his favourites and also let you in on hidden gems.
General advice
On Sundays many restaurants, cafés and bars are closed.
For dinner book your table well in advance, especially on weekends.
Dinner – local cuisine
Weißes Rössl– in the Old Town, part of the hotel with the same name.
This restaurant offers both local and international cuisine.
Die Wilderin – in the Old Town.
Very good quality, prices a bit above average. International cuisine focusing on local products. Due to the tight seating it is rather noisy in there.
As this restaurant is recommended in many “best of” lists it can be difficult to find a free table.
Stiftskeller – large restaurant at the edge of the old town
Very popular with tourists. Waiters dressed in “Lederhosen” and “Dirndl”. Bavarian beer.
Lunch
Many restaurants offer a “menu of the day”, in German: “Mittagsmenü”. Usually you get that during weekdays between 11:30 and 14:00. It is intended to provide working people with a quick and nourishing meal at a reasonable price. Check if a sign outside the restaurant shows such an offer.
Fast food
You find the internationally well known chains spread all over the city. They are popular among the locals, too.
We have one alternative, though:
Almost all grocery stores and supermarkets have a deli inside. A section that sells many different types of sausage, ham and cheese. There you can get a so called “Wurstsemmel” – a bread roll with sausage in it. You ask for a roll and tell the salesperson to add whatever you want: sausage, cheese, ham, pickles. If you want just cheese, that’s fine, too ( it’s then called a “Käsesemmel”, though).
Another thing is the “Fleischkäs-Semmel”. That is warm meat loaf in a bread roll. Add ketchup or mustard if you like.
In the evening a few sausage stalls are opening and are offering a quick bite until late. They are located in front of the Golden Roof and next to St. Anna’s column.
Cafés
Karaffu (no website of their own, street address: Leopoldstraße 9); very popular with young people as they serve Matcha.
Strudel-Cafe Kröll (street address: Hofgasse 6); as it is located in the “souvenir lane” it is very popular with tourists. They specialize in “Strudel”.
Bakeries and Pastry shops
The German term for Pastry shop is “Konditorei”
Cafe Konditorei Kasperhof at the western edge of town; open on weekends only
Ruetz (locations) bakery chain. They also have a small selection of cakes and serve also coffee etc. Many of their outlets are open on Sundays, too.