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.