Café Central

Café Central Review

This is the coffeehouse supreme. Made famous by its illustrious guests, the Café Central is right up there with Florian's in Venice. But don't expect a cozy hole-in-the-wall Kaffeehaus: with soaring ceiling and gigantic columns giving it the look of an apse strayed from St. Stephen's cathedral, Café Central provided a rather sumptuous home-away-from-home for Leon Trotsky, who mapped out the Russian Revolution here beneath portraits of the imperial family. Piano music fills the marble pillared hall in the afternoon; it's worth putting on your must-see list.