Where to eat in Vienna: the Michelin, Falstaff and Gault&Millau tables, then schnitzel houses, Beisln and street food

💡 The Short Version: Two restaurants hold three Michelin stars: Steirereck im Stadtpark and Amador. Falstaff’s 2026 guide scores Steirereck 100 out of 100, and Gault&Millau’s 2026 guide gives four restaurants five toques. Book the starred tables: Amador serves dinner Wednesday to Saturday only, and Doubek opens its reservations three months ahead with a €100 deposit per person. For schnitzel, Figlmüller serves a 30 cm pork schnitzel and a veal Original Wiener, Meissl & Schadn fries veal in front of you, and Plachutta is the Tafelspitz house. Schweizerhaus, the Prater beer garden, closes on 31 October. The Naschmarkt stalls are shut on Sundays. Or book a guide: the Naschmarkt Food Tasting Tourad is from €65 for 2½ hours.

⚠️ Check the day. Amador is closed Sunday to Tuesday. Silvio Nickol takes reservations Tuesday to Saturday. Schweizerhaus shuts for the winter after 31 October. Café Central is closed for renovation: see Viennese coffee houses.

Michelin, Falstaff and Gault&Millau

The Michelin Guide’s list for Vienna and its surroundings shows 78 restaurants: two with three stars, four with two stars, eleven with one, 12 Bib Gourmand and 49 Selected (Michelin Guide). Falstaff’s Restaurantguide 2026, presented on 9 March 2026, scored the Vienna top ten from 96 to 100 (meinbezirk.at). Gault&Millau Austria 2026, published on 27 January 2026, gave four restaurants in Vienna its top rating of five toques at 19 out of 20 (Gault&Millau).

Eleven Vienna restaurants hold one star, among them Edvard (in the Anantara Palais Hansen), Pramerl & the Wolf, Herzig, Apron, Glasswing, JOLA, Z’SOM, TIAN, Esszimmer and [aend]. Michelin’s Bib Gourmand restaurants in Vienna are Chez Bernard, Rosi, TIAN Bistro am Spittelberg, Meierei im Stadtpark, Mochi, Gasthaus Tante Liesl, MAST Weinbistro and LOLA; the rooftop terrace of Chez Bernard in Hotel Motto reopens in spring or summer 2027.

Schnitzel, Tafelspitz and the old houses

A Wiener Schnitzel is veal. The Austrian Food Code defines it as a veal cutlet breaded in flour, egg and breadcrumbs and fried in fat, and sells a pork cutlet as Schnitzel Wiener Art (Austrian Food Code). In Falstaff’s readers’ vote for 2026, which counted veal only, the Vienna winner was Plachuttas Gasthaus zur Oper, and Meissl & Schadn was praised for breading the cutlet in front of guests (oe24.at).

Figlmüller

Wollzeile 5, 1010 · daily 11:00 to 22:30, kitchen to 21:30 · reservations +43 1 512 61 77 · figlmueller.at

Johann Figlmüller opened a wine tavern on Wollzeile in 1905, a short walk from St Stephen’s Cathedral. The house schnitzel is pork, pounded until it measures 30 cm across, and the menu also lists an Original Wiener veal schnitzel fried in lard and oil. Order the veal if you want the dish the Food Code means. A second restaurant, on Bäckerstraße 6, is open daily 11:30 to 23:30 with the kitchen to 22:00 (+43 1 512 17 60).

The pork schnitzel at Figlmüller. Photo: TravelPhotosNL, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Plachutta Wollzeile

Wollzeile 38, 1010 · reserve online or on +43 1 512 15 77 · plachutta.at

The Plachutta family’s restaurants are built round Tafelspitz, boiled beef served in the pot with marrow on black-bread toast, rösti, vegetables, chive sauce and apple horseradish, and the Wiener Schnitzel is on the menu too. Plachuttas Gasthaus zur Oper, at Walfischgasse 5 to 7, is the one in the Falstaff vote. There are branches in Hietzing and Nussdorf.

Tafelspitz at Plachutta. Photo: weisserstier, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

Meissl & Schadn

Schubertring 10 to 12, 1010 · daily 12:00 to 23:30 · reserve online · meisslundschadn.at

A Michelin Selected restaurant that pounds, breads and fries the veal schnitzel in an open salon kitchen in front of guests, in clarified butter, pork lard or vegetable oil as you choose. Its Tafelspitz comes from a trolley with shoulder and leg cuts, tongue and a marrow bone, creamed spinach, carrots, apple horseradish and chive sauce.

Zum Schwarzen Kameel

Bognergasse 5, 1010 · bar and brasserie daily 08:00 to 00:00 · the bar needs no reservation · kameel.at

A delicatessen that says it traces its history to 1618, with a bar and brasserie on the ground floor and a Jugendstil restaurant, the Beletage, upstairs. The bar serves ham rolls, salads and sandwiches, and the kitchen is open 12:00 to 22:30; breakfast is 08:00 to 11:00, or to 12:00 on Saturday and Sunday. The Beletage cooks Tuesday to Saturday, 12:00 to 14:30 and 17:30 to 22:00. A stop here suits a lunch that needs no booking.

Glacis Beisl

Breite Gasse 4, 1070 · daily 12:00 to 00:00, kitchen to 22:30 (Sunday 21:30) · phone for Saturdays, Sundays and holidays · glacisbeisl.at

A Beisl, a Viennese tavern, in the MuseumsQuartier with classic Viennese cooking, a garden and a room indoors. Short-notice requests and bookings for Saturdays, Sundays and holidays go by phone from 10:30 on +43 1 526 56 60; the garden tables are reserved in fine weather.

The Prater, the market and the stands

Schweizerhaus

Prater, 1020 · 15 March to 31 October, daily 11:00 to 23:00, kitchen to 22:15 · reserve online · schweizerhaus.at

The Prater beer garden’s speciality is the Stelze, roast pork knuckle with a crisp skin, carved at the table: one serves two or three people, and the whole menu is also sold for takeaway from the street window. There is no closing day. The house strongly recommends booking a table, and the season ends on 31 October. See the Prater and the Riesenrad.

A Stelze at the Schweizerhaus. Photo: Karl Gruber, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Naschmarkt

Between Getreidemarkt and Kettenbrücke, along the Wienzeile · stalls Monday to Friday 06:00 to 21:00, Saturday 06:00 to 18:00 · City of Vienna

Those are the maximum hours of the stalls, which are shut on Sundays except on Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and All Saints. The restaurants and bars may open Monday to Saturday 06:00 to 23:00 and on Sundays and holidays 09:00 to 21:00. The flea market on the Linke Wienzeile near the Kettenbrücke is on Saturdays from 06:30 to 15:00, with no market on 25 and 26 December and on 1 and 6 January, and a noon finish on 24 and 31 December (flea market). For a guided tasting, Vienna food tours starts with the Naschmarkt tour.

A mushroom stall at the Naschmarkt. Photo: Dietmar Rabich, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Würstelstand

At a sausage stand the question is süß oder scharf?, sweet or hot, and it asks about the mustard, not the sausage. The Käsekrainer is a lightly smoked pork sausage with 10 to 20% cheese. The Tourist Board names the Bitzinger stands at Albertinaplatz and by the Riesenrad, and a late-night stand on the Hoher Markt (Vienna Tourist Board). Vienna food tours has a guided sausage-stand tour from €69.

The Bitzinger Würstelstand on Albertinaplatz. Photo: Gugerell, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

Coffee, cake and wine

Coffee and cake belong in a coffee house: Viennese coffee houses lists eight, with their hours and the Sacher-Torte at €11.50. Wine is drunk where it is made: Heurigen and wine taverns lists the taverns of Grinzing, the Nussberg and Stammersdorf.

Plan the rest

Shops are shut on Sundays but restaurants, cafés and markets are not: see the best time to visit Vienna for the holidays. What to book before you go to Vienna lists the tickets that need a slot, 3 days in Vienna fits meals to the sights, and Vienna Christmas markets covers the stalls in winter. Where to stay in Vienna compares the districts, and hotels near St Stephen’s lists the hotels round Figlmüller and Plachutta.