Café Gerstner

The Gerstner name goes back to a pastry shop opened in central Vienna in the 1840s, and the confectionery side has never stopped being the point: this is a coffeehouse run by bakers rather than the reverse. It settled early into the role of a meeting place for Viennese and visitors alike, and the cake counter still sets the terms of a visit.

Category: Food & Drink

Tags: kaffeehaus, konditorei, 1840s, cake

Coordinates: 48.1852516, 16.313908

Part of Vienna's historic coffeehouses, the Kaffeehaus institutions

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