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Altmann & Kühne
This charming small shop has a touch of the old world about it, partly due to the handmade packaging of their chocolates and sweets, designed by Wiener Werkstätte in 1928. Altmann & Kühne have been producing hand-made bonbons for more than 100 years using a well-kept secret recipe.
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Amalienbad
This stunning Jugendstil bath has a range of facilities including a solarium, steam room, massage, cosmetic treatments and a restaurant. There are separate saunas for men and women, and a unisex one.
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Art Up
The best place to come if you want to take the temperature of Vienna's contemporary design scene, Art Up works on a cooperative model allowing the designers who stock their work here to get a foothold in the fashion world - around 35 of them at the time of research. The model makes for an eclectic collection - elegant fashion pieces rub alongside quirky accessories (Astroturf tie or handbag, anyone?) as well as ceramics and bigger art pieces.
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Augarten Wien
Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur Augarten makes Vienna's finest porcelain; the most delicate of ornaments, vases and dinnerware with traditional hand-painted designs are available at a number of outlets around town. Beautiful, quality stuff (though perhaps a touch old-fashioned to some tastes) with prices to match, starting at around €70 for a small vase. Tours of the factory are available; ask at the shop or see the website for details.
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Babettes
Babettes is a unique concept in Vienna. Part eatery, part cookbook and spice store, it caters to a growing market of Viennese willing to experiment with what they cook at home. With more than a thousand cookbooks from around the world, you should be able to find something to match your tastes. Cooking courses are also available.
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Bernsteinzimmer
The 'Amber Room,' named for the famous room of amber in Berlin's Schloss Charlottenburg which was lost after WWII, does its best to approximate the idea. Oversized beads, carved animals, cigarette holders - simply amber in all shapes & sizes, most of which is sourced from Poland. A must for amber freaks.
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Black Market
Black Market is Vienna's house, techno and electronic music specialist. The vinyl selection is enormous and the staff highly knowledgeable. You'll also find a small lounge with coffee, and cooler-than-cool T-shirts and sweats.
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Bobby's Food Store
Craving Vegemite or Marmite? Salt-and-vinegar crisps? Heinz Spotted Dick? Bobby's is a one-stop food store for brands from the US, UK and beyond that are hard to find anywhere else in Vienna.
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British Bookshop
The British Bookshop has the largest selection of English reference and teaching books in Vienna. There's also a well-ordered and extensive fiction section, children's books and a few DVDs. There's a second outlet in Neubau called British Bookshop II (Mariahilfer Strasse 4).
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Douglas
Perfume, cosmetics and skin care from all the big European names as well as professional-standard own-brand make-up brushes and accessories are available here and at other Douglas branches throughout the city.
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Eva Blut
Eva Blut's transformable clothing is multiskilled: a jacket might become a bag, trousers turn into overalls. The result is an edgy, asymmetrical look with a Japanese aesthetic and a very urban manifesto.
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Ewa's Fashion Lounge
Junky, but funky - Ewa's is a club by night, a trashy retro clothing shop by day. A DJ spins discs as you pause between racks and sit at the bar for a drink. The clothes are from the polyester and frayed cuff school of secondhand, but the vodka is cheap and the ambience is…interesting.
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Flo Vintage Mode
In a city this enamoured with the glamorous past, it's no less than shocking that there's only one true vintage clothing store in town. The clothes here are fastidiously and beautifully displayed, from pearl-embroidered Art Nouveau masterpieces to 1950s and '60s New Look pieces and designer wear of the '70s and '80s (alphabetised Armani-Zegna). Prices are high, and so is quality.
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Freytag & Berndt
There is no better place for maps and travel guides than Freytag & Berndt. There's an exhaustive collection of guides and maps to Vienna and Austria (including some superbly detailed walking maps) and guides to Europe and the world (many in English).
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J & L Lobmeyr
One of Vienna's most lavish retail experiences; the fine glassware and porcelain on display glitters in the chandelier-festooned atrium. The firm has been in business since the early-19th century, when it exclusively supplied the imperial court; these days, production is more focused towards Werkstätte pieces. Even if you're not in the market for a chandelier, you can sweep up the beautifully ornate wrought-iron staircase to the museum/showroom.
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K&K Schmuckhandels
When you enter this shop you'll feel like you've been immersed in a giant treasure chest, with strings of semiprecious stones heaped over every surface as well as chinoiserie, polished coral, shell and wooden beads. Bangles, bracelets, necklaces and earrings are on display, or you can get the trinket of your dreams custom made from the gems of your choice.
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Kaufhaus Schiepek
This quirky and truly original shop stocks jars and jars of multicoloured baubles. Stock up on all sorts of beads that look like liquorice and make your own crazy masterpiece, or buy one of their wacky plastic numbers featuring big plastic lobsters or birds' heads.
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Kunsthandel Martina Meiderle
This is the place for high-quality, highly polished furniture, ornaments, lighting and art mainly from the Art Deco and Bauhaus periods. If you simply must have that Josef Hoffman sideboard, shipping can be arranged. You'll also find some Jakob Bengal costume jewellery here.
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Lichterloh
This massive, ultra-cool space is filled with iconic furniture from the 1900s to 1970s by names such as Eames, Thonet and Mies Van Der Rohe. Even if you're not planning to lug home a slick Danish sideboard, it's worth a look at this veritable gallery of modern furniture design. There's also some more transportable antique kitsch and glassware for sale.
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Loden-Plankl
Want to kit yourself out Von Trapp family-style? This 180-year-old institution is your place. Embroidered dirndls and blouses, capes, high-collared jackets and deer suede coats are all hand-made (reflected in their prices). Modern variations are available as well as the traditional designs, though you're likely to find more nostalgic charm in the trad stuff. Christopher Plummer wannabes come for the loden coats (made from boiled and combed wool).
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Lollipop
An old-fashioned neighbourhood confectioners with a selection of traditional and newfangled sweets, Lollipop is sure to have something to please even the fussiest sweet-tooth.
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Lomoshop
The Lomographic Society's (www.lomography.com) first ever Lomography shop is in MuseumsQuartier. Lomo is a worldwide cult and the Lomoshop is considered its heart. There's all manner of Lomo cameras, gadgets and accessories for sale; an original Russian-made Lomo will set you back around €150 , and you can get single-use disposable Lomo cameras for around €12 . There's also a wall full of Lomo photos on display, for inspiration.
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Manner
Even Manner - Vienna's favourite sweet since 1898, a glorious concoction of wafers and hazelnut cream - has its own concept store now, decked out in the biscuit's signature peachy pink. Here you can buy not only the product itself in every imaginable variety and packaging combination, but also Manner T-shirts, Manner bath towels, Manner toy trucks - you name it.
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Meinl Am Graben
The most prestigious providore in Vienna, Meinl stocks quality foodstuffs from all over Europe. Most of the ground floor is given over to chocolates and a confectionery; upstairs are impressive cheese and cold meats counters. The wine shop has premium European wines and a good stock of Austrian fruit liqueurs; Meinl's Weinbar (; - Mon-Sat) in the cellar has a great selection of wines by the glass and a chilled, classy atmosphere.
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Möbel
Das Möbel is more of a bar than a shop , but it showcases some of the funkiest and most original furniture in Vienna. Local artists and designers fill the place with their latest creations, and it's all for sale. The bags hanging just inside the door, also locally designed and produced, are truly special creations.
