Café Leopold Hawelka

Top choice in Vienna


Opened in 1939 by Leopold and Josefine Hawelka, whose son Günter and grandsons Amir and Michael still bake the house-speciality Buchteln (jam-filled, sugar-dusted yeast rolls) to the family's secret recipe, this low-lit, picture-plastered coffee house is a living slice of Viennese history. Artists and writers who have hung out here have included Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Elias Canetti, Arthur Miller and Andy Warhol.