Your dessert type
❦ The Grand Café Romantic
Red velvet, a torte with a seal, and the afternoon is yours.
You eat cake in rooms with chandeliers and waiters who have outlasted governments. A Melange on a silver tray, a torte mit Schlag, a glass of water, a newspaper, three hours: your afternoon is a nineteenth-century novel and you are in no hurry to finish it.
Your perfect afternoon: Demel in the morning, the Café Sacher at three, the Imperial after six to compare, and a box of Altmann & Kühne miniatures in your coat.
Your dessert
The Original Sacher-TorteYour houses
The Grand Café Romantic: your houses
HotelIconVienna · Philharmonikerstrasse, behind the Opera
Hotel Sacher Wien
The Original Sacher-Torte
HotelIconVienna · Kärntner Ring
Hotel Imperial
The Imperial Torte
BoutiqueVienna · Herrengasse, Palais Ferstel
Café Central
The coffee house of the century
BoutiqueMunich · Brienner Strasse, Maxvorstadt
Café Luitpold
Under the glass dome
BoutiqueZurich · Napfgasse, Niederdorf
Péclard im Schober
The fairytale tea room
The other types
Who else is at the counter
❖ The Classicist
The Paris-Brest the way it was meant to be, and nothing clever.
◆ The Chocolate Devotee
Seventy percent, a fresh cream centre, and the box is yours.
✦ The Purist
One perfect mousse, eaten at the counter, in silence.
♛ The Tea Ritualist
Three tiers, a pot that never runs cold, and a second round of scones.
✧ The Avant-Gardist
The lemon that is not a lemon, and the queue is part of the fun.