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Café Central

  • Address: Herrengasse 14, corner Strauchgasse, 1st District, Vienna | Map It
  • Phone: 01/5333-76424
  • Price range: ¢-$
  • Cuisine: Cafe
  • Location: Vienna

Fodor's 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.

  • U-Bahn: U3/Herrengasse

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