Of course there is more to Vienna than sausage, but this wiener was an all time winner of our weekend stay in Vienna. First of all, Vienna gets a bad rep as a boring place from those, spoiled by European travel. All lies. It’s a gorgeous, lively and friendly city. While Vienna’s architectural attractions include Habsburgs‘ mansions and gardens, the Ostereich (or ostrich according to D) capital is also proud of having been a stage set for “The Third Man” and home to the fabulous Dr. Freud. Quite expectedly though, vegetarians can happily roam the city’s gorgeous streets, but a food stop will bring meat refuseniks into a state of gloom. Who could guess that something harmlessly named “spinach pasta” can cause heart failure?
It was at the very end of our adventures in Vienna, when we broke loose of Lonely Planet’s suggestions and sat down at a place curiously named Centimeter. D looked at the menu and spotted a two-meter sausage.
D: Ha! Do you think they really serve a two meter sausage?
Me: Nah, it’s probably just for advertising or something…
Wrong! Two meters of the finest Viennese wiener were delivered to our table ten minutes later. D could only muster a meter and a third… A bitter but delightful addition to the wiener plate was a pile of coarsely graded horseradish that I at first though was cheese!
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That snowball of grated horseradish may have been the best part of the meal.
I can’t believe I (almost) ate the whole thing (well, not really).
Comment by dogra — On 08-12-07 at 12:47 pm