# Best Cafes in Vienna

Vienna's UNESCO-listed Kaffeehaus tradition alongside the city's working third-wave specialty-coffee scene. · community starter list

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.

**Where:** [Third Platz](/.md) / [Austria](/austria.md) / Vienna
**Updated:** 2026-08-25 04:33:43

1. **[Café Sperl](/e/cafe-sperl---1193.md)** (cafe) — Traditional Kaffeehaus in Mariahilf dating to 1880, with marble tables, billiard tables and Sunday-afternoon piano, on Austria's register of historic places. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.meinbezirk.at/mariahilf/c-lokales/ein-stueck-wiener-geschichte-im-caf-sperl-erleben_a7318341, https://www.cafesperl.at/en_home.html
2. **[Café Hawelka](/e/cafe-hawelka---1194.md)** (cafe) — 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. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_Hawelka, https://www.hawelka.at/geschichte/
3. **[Café Landtmann](/e/cafe-landtmann---1195.md)** (cafe) — 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. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.wien.info/en/dine-drink/coffeehouses/modern-cafes-352122, https://www.landtmann.at/en/cafe-landtmann.html
4. **[Café Prückel](/e/cafe-pruckel---1196.md)** (cafe) — Ringstraße Kaffeehaus at Stubenring dating to 1903, renovated under new management since 2024 while keeping its traditional interior and Viennese menu. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.meinbezirk.at/innere-stadt/c-wirtschaft/wiedereroeffnung-fuer-das-traditionscaf-am-stubenring_a6866959, https://www.prueckel.at/en/cafe-prueckel/
5. **[Balthasar Kaffee Bar](/e/balthasar-kaffee-bar---1197.md)** (cafe) — 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. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.wien.info/en/dine-drink/coffeehouses/modern-cafes-352122, https://viennawurstelstand.com/location/balthasar-kaffee-bar-specialty-coffee/
6. **[Kaffeefabrik](/e/kaffeefabrik---1198.md)** (cafe) — 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. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.wien.info/en/dine-drink/coffeehouses/modern-cafes-352122, https://beans.at/en/roester/kaffeefabrik
7. **[GOTA Coffee Experts](/e/gota-coffee-experts---1199.md)** (cafe) — Specialty coffee shop on Mariahilfer Straße that has placed among Europe's and the world's top ranked coffee shops in recent industry rankings. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.meinbezirk.at/rudolfsheim-fuenfhaus/c-wirtschaft/gota-coffee-katapultiert-sich-von-wien-auf-europas-kaffee-landkarte_a8750289, https://gota.coffee/
8. **[Jonas Reindl Coffee Roasters](/e/jonas-reindl-coffee-roasters---1200.md)** (cafe) — Roastery-cafe on Westbahnstraße roasting specialty coffee in small, 10-kilogram batches through direct-trade relationships with individual farms. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.wien.info/en/dine-drink/coffeehouses/modern-cafes-352122, https://www.jonasreindl.at/

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