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Best Cafes in Vienna

A list of the 8 best cafes in Vienna, including Café Sperl (Mariahilf, Vienna). The order here is where we started — no votes have been cast yet, so voting decides it from here.

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Updated Aug 25, 2026Checked Aug 25, 2026

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    Mariahilf, Vienna

    Traditional Kaffeehaus in Mariahilf dating to 1880, with marble tables, billiard tables and Sunday-afternoon piano, on Austria's register of historic places.

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    Innere Stadt, Vienna

    Innere Stadt Kaffeehaus opened by Leopold Hawelka in 1939, now run by the family's third generation and still serving Buchteln to Josefine Hawelka's original recipe.

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    Innere Stadt, Vienna

    Ringstraße Kaffeehaus established in 1873 opposite City Hall, furnished with Thonet chairs from the imperial era and rated three coffee cups in the Falstaff Café Guide.

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    Innere Stadt, Vienna

    Ringstraße Kaffeehaus at Stubenring dating to 1903, renovated under new management since 2024 while keeping its traditional interior and Viennese menu.

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    Leopoldstadt, Vienna

    Third-wave coffee bar on Praterstraße run by former chef Otto Bayer, pouring fair-trade coffee from Kenya, Ethiopia and Brazil in an Italian-inflected room.

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    Wieden, Vienna

    Wieden roastery-cafe founded in 2011 by Tobias Radinger, among Vienna's first third-wave coffee shops, direct-trading and roasting its own beans in small batches.

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    Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus, Vienna

    Specialty coffee shop on Mariahilfer Straße that has placed among Europe's and the world's top ranked coffee shops in recent industry rankings.

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    Neubau, Vienna

    Roastery-cafe on Westbahnstraße roasting specialty coffee in small, 10-kilogram batches through direct-trade relationships with individual farms.

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