Modern Viennese Cuisine – experience the extraordinary!

The restaurant TIAN in Vienna shows the diversity of vegetarian cuisine at the highest level. The menu reads like a walk through the vegetable garden. Michelin-starred chef Paul Ivic uses fair and organic products, including almost forgotten vegetables, fruits and grains, to create refined dishes. It is important to Ivic and his team to throw away as little as possible. This leads to the creation of new ideas, ingredients and taste sensations again and again. For its great cuisine, TIAN was awarded one star by the Guide Michelin. This makes it one of the best vegetarian restaurants in the world.

At the Labstelle near St. Stephen's Cathedral, everything is just right - from the cuisine to the design. Many products come from producers in Vienna: the figs from Feigenhof am Himmelreich, the fish and vegetables from blün in Vienna's 22nd district, and the Wiener Gemischter Satz DAC from the Wieninger winery. The dishes present themselves as impressive works of art on colour-coordinated plates and bowls.

In the courtyard, the hanging gardens make visitors feel like they are in a green oasis in the middle of the city center. In the restaurant, guests take their seats on "Y-Chairs," a design classic by Danish architect Hans J. Wegner. Together with polished concrete, black steel and leached wood, the chairs blend harmoniously into the overall look of the restaurant.

At the Wiener Heurigen (wine tavern), visitors appreciate the good wines produced by 700 hectares of Viennese vineyards (one third of which are organic) and 140 winegrowers. Dozens of these romantic, cosy wine taverns can be found in the wine villages and vineyards on the outskirts of the city: in Grinzing, Nussdorf and Stammersdorf. By the way, Vienna's Heurigen culture is a UNESCO intangible cultural heritage site.

Even top restaurants have long been convinced by Riesling and Pinot Blanc from Vienna. And of the Wiener Gemischter Satz DAC. In this specialty, the grapes of at least three white wine varieties are planted and pressed together. White wine is cultivated on about 80 percent of Vienna's wine-growing area, and Wiener Gemischter Satz on the remaining vineyard area. Vienna is the only metropolis in the world with significant viticulture within the city limits.

Source of figures: Vienna Chamber of Agriculture