Traditional food of Vienna: 7 dishes

• Wiener Schnitzel · Main dish · Vienna

  A Wiener Schnitzel is a veal cutlet pounded thin, coated in flour, egg and breadcrumbs and fried in lard or butter until the crust puffs up away from the meat.

• Sachertorte · Dessert · Vienna

  In 1832, 16-year-old Franz Sacher, an apprentice in the kitchen of Prince Metternich in Vienna, had to make a dessert when the head chef fell ill.

• Tafelspitz · Main dish · Vienna

  Tafelspitz, "tip of the table", is boiled beef in broth, a classic of Viennese cooking that is popular all over Austria and in neighbouring Bavaria.

• Viennese apple strudel Wiener Apfelstrudel · Dessert · Vienna

  Apple strudel is a traditional Viennese pastry, loved across Austria and the lands that once belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, from Bavaria and the Czech Republic to Slovenia, Croatia and northern Italy.

• Wiener Melange · Drink · Vienna

  The Wiener Melange, usually just called a Melange, is a Viennese coffee speciality.

• Beuschel · Main dish · Vienna

  Beuschel is a ragout of lungs and other offal, such as heart, kidneys, spleen and tongue, from calf, beef, pork or game.

• Wiener Backhendl · Main dish · Vienna

  Backhendl, or Wiener Backhendl, is Viennese fried chicken and has been a speciality of Viennese cooking since the 18th century.

Other regions in Austria

• Traditional food of Salzburg: 4 dishes
• Traditional food of Carinthia: 3 dishes
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