Italian restaurants in Austria
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Restaurant Collio
Inside the Hotel Stadt Triest in Wieden, this fine Italian restaurant has a lounge atmosphere, mellow sounds trickling out of the speakers and parquet floor offset by the browns of padded benches – an interior from British designer Sir Terence Conran, who also did Café Drechsler. The food lives up to the top-class design and is exceptionally well priced. Like the best of Vienna’s eating establishments, Collio changes its menu regularly and by season, and in a cold February you might find duck with a fig mustard and served with fried polenta (€17.90) to warm the soul. It has a Venetian focus but wades across a broad and interesting culinary lagoon.
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Vapiano
This eat-in Italian cafeteria-style chain offers pizza, homemade pasta and salads in several different categories. You collect a card at the door and make your choice at one of the counters, where dashing young lads and lasses will whip up the dish before your very eyes. Hold onto your card and pay at the door when you leave. Bonuses are a nappy-changing room and long opening hours. The downside is that the eating is often shoulder-to-shoulder and the noise level can make spaghetti of your nerve endings.
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Piccini Piccolo Gourmet
‘Gourmet’ is a term all too frequently bantered around these days – gourmet pizzas, gourmet burgers, gourmet sandwiches, you name it – but here it’s taken very seriously. ‘Piccini’ has the finest antipasti restaurant in town, with around 40 different antipasti rolls, fish treats and stuffed vegetables. It also knows its Brunello from its Vino Nobile, which, with 60 varieties of wine available, is a good thing. Its shop next door has been selling imported Italian foods since 1856.
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Danmayr
This small eat-in and takeaway stand on Karmelitermarkt offers a delicious range of mostly southern Italian antipasti such as roasted capsicum salad, as well as prosciutto, salamis and a mortadella made from wild boar. In summer, nibblers can sit at the tables outside on the market place and watch the action. Eager punters will be aghast at the comings and goings directly next door, where a stand does a strong trade in cured meats and sausages made from horse meat.
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Weinkellerei Enrico Panigl
Although the menu is small, this wine restaurant serves delicious dishes such as tuna with a truffle and porcini sauce accompanied by grilled polenta (€19.90). The atmosphere is genuinely rustic right down to the wooden floors, offset by art from Vienna’s postmodernist guru Hermann Nitsch. The choice of 150 wines from Italy and Austria means that the pleasure of being here is as much about the wines as is it about good food and contemporary art.
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Il Sestante
Enjoy a slice of Italy in Vienna. Take a seat, order from a long list of mozzarella-based pizzas (including white pizzas - without tomato sauce), watch the skilled pizza-makers spin the base like plates, then sit back with a glass of Montepulciano d´Abruzzo and wait for it to arrive from the wood oven. Choose a table indoors near the animated waiters or one outside on pretty Jodok-Fink-Platz, with Piaristenkirche as a backdrop.
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Aurelius
This stylish Italian and Croatian restaurant has a large, loyal following for its fantastic range of antipasti and main-course seafood and beef. The roasted calamari on a base of rucola (rocket) and tomato salad (€9) is one of the antipasti served here, or consider the Charolais beef with chanterelle mushrooms (€21.90). There’s a small garden for outdoor dining in summer. The bar stays open until 1am.
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Dolce Vita
In a region strongly influenced by northern Italian cuisine, this restaurant is something of a local flagship. Inexpensive it is not, but it builds a seasonal menu mostly around fresh local produce and game, while also offering a lunchtime Venetian Sarde in saor (sardines in a marinade). Expect to pay about €14 for a pasta entree.
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La Torre
This magnificent Italian restaurant is set in one of the towers of the 14th-century town wall. As well as the smart, romantic interior there’s a beautiful, walled garden and terrace and an Italian owner who exudes bonhomie. The calamari with inky spaghetti and peperoncino, washed down with wine, is a tasty lunchtime interlude.
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Villa Masianco
This sassy bistro on the square satisfies Kufstein’s Italian cravings with risotto, fresh fish and tender veal fillets. Chandeliers, wooden floors and leather stools give the vaulted restaurant a modern kick. The chestnut tree-shaded terrace hums with life in summer.
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San Giorgio
This Italian restaurant by the lake has eat-in (inside or in the garden) and take-away food. There’s a bar/disco downstairs, the Zwolfer Alm Bar (open from 9pm), claiming to be the oldest nightclub in Austria (it was founded in 1930).
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Scala
Scala is an unpretentious Italian restaurant where on a rainy day you can find refuge behind a plate of pasta, a pizza or a more substantial dish while warming up over a glass of wine. In summer there’s outdoor seating.
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Mia Cara
Mario cooks up a storm in the kitchen at this buzzing Italian osteria. Sample antipasti from the counter or homemade penne with a nice glass of Chianti. The patio is popular in summer.
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Pasta…e Basta
Over 20 different sorts of pasta are made and sold on the premises, and several sorts are served to a loyal following at wooden tables in this stylish pasta house-cum-wine bar.
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Restorante da Michele
Restorante da Michele. The homemade pasta and bread is especially popular at this delightful Italian restaurant in the centre of town.
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Expedit
Expedit has successfully moulded itself on a Ligurian osteria and become one of the most popular Italian restaurants in town. Its warehouse decor, with shelves stocked full of oil, pesto, olives and wine from Liguria, helps to create a busy yet informal atmosphere and a clean, smart look. Every day brings new, seasonal dishes to the menu, but count on a few divine vegetarian, meat and fish specialities. Reservations are recommended. The affiliated Expedit Lager in the same building does takeaway.
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