Other than good food and museums (satisfying for the Shiele and Klimit fans in us), one of the top highlights of our Vienna trip was the boutique hotel we stayed for 2 nights called Hollmann Beletage. We had a hard time finding reasonably price good vacation rental at Vienna and most mid range hotels were […]
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Hollmann Beletage Hotel Breakfast (Vienna: Inner Stadt)
By Joan in Favorite Food Entries, ViennaHotel Sacher (Vienna: Opera House)
By Freda in ViennaThe next day we went to try the original Sachertorte from Hotel Sacher. The restaurant was full, so we went to their cafe side which supposed to have the same menu. The boutique + restaurant + cafe + bar combine area is bigger than Demel. The decor, however, was old school classical (not that pretty […]
Tags: Cafe, Cakes, Coffee, Patisserie, Soup
Demel (Vienna: Hofburg Imperial Palace)
By Freda in ViennaThe sausages revived our energy, but we were thinking of cakes. After hitting several tourist sights (including following the Royal Band marching into the Castle, saved our trouble finding directions), we dashed to one of Vienna’s most famous cake shop before its closing time. So there was a bitter rivalry story about Vienna’s signature chocolate […]
Tags: Austrian, Cake, Chocolate, Coffee, Patisserie
Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea (Sunset Junction)
By Joan in 05: Silver Lake + Echo ParkFinally a coffee shop opened at Silver lake’s Sunset Junction area. Intelligentsia is a chain from Chicago. Great location, cute interior and love the courtyard sitting area. The coffee got nice “branded colors” presentation with their very designy logo (which might look “out” in a couple of years). So it was rather disappointing to find […]
Aroma Cafe (Overland)
By Freda in 11: West LA, Favorite Food EntriesThe family owned Bosnian place Aroma Cafe (see old post here) is one place I often remember fondly and wanted to come back again and again, not only because of the absolutely delicious and exotic-yet-comforting mediterranean delicacies, but most of all it felt Escape-from-LA in there. Turkish coffee. Rich and velvety, almost Belgian hot chocolate […]