Welcome

to Café Imperial Wien

A coffeehouse in Vienna is a place to spend time, to meet and to enjoy. The traditional ambience of the Hotel Imperial invites to relive history, evoking the esprit of many famous guests.

For the Viennese, a coffeehouse is like a second home outside of one's own home. Therefore, it has become a tradition for local folks to eat, drink, read, convene or work at one's favorite coffeehouse in Vienna, preferably at one's regular seat.

Opening Hours:

Daily from 7 am until 11:00 pm

Breakfast: from 7 am to 11 am

Weekly Menu

APPETIZER AND SOUP

Marinated deer carpaccio

with herb mushrooms, blueberries and black nuts

Pumpkin foam soup

with baked veal head, horseradish and pumpkin seed oil

MAIN COURSE

Braised veal shoulder

with parsnip, shallot and polenta

Fillet of sea bass

with artichokes, pointed peppers, crustacean puntalette

DESSERT

Homemade plum dumplings

with butter bread crumbs and sorbet

CLASSIC OF THE WEEK

Esterhazy roast

with curd dumplings and capers

À la carte Menu

Appetizer

Viennese delicacies

Breaded veal and chicken on potato-cucumber-corn salad

Imperial Sandwich

with pastrami, avocado, dried tomato, red wine onions and mountain cheese on joseph-bakery bread

Variation of salmon

with dill mustard sauce and creamy horse radish

Marinated pumpkin

with cream cheese and herb salad

Beef Tatar (small)

with vinegar vegetables, herb salad and sourdough bread

Beef Tatar (big)

with vinegar vegetables, herb salad and sourdough bread

Soup

Beef consommé

with semolina dumpling or sliced pancake or liver dumpling

Crème of potato

with duroc bacon, mushrooms and lovage

Parsnip foam soup

with with Sot ly laisse and chervil

Main Course

Red beet dumplings

with creamed kohlrabi and horseradish

Steamed fillet of catfish

in champagne herb, grapes and bacon potatoes

Cuts from Dry-Aged Rib-Eye

with carrot, hemp and bread mushroom slices

Breast of chicken

with pumpkin, Soave chili and semolina strudel

Forest shrub risotto

with beech mushrooms, cassis and Emmental cheese

Austrian specialties

Original Viennese Schnitzel

Breaded and deep-fried escalope of veal, parsley potatoes and mixed salad

Tafelspitz - Traditional boiled beef

with roasted potatoes, cream spinach, apple-horseradish-sauce and chive-sauce

Viennese sausages

with mustard, horse radish and goulash sauce

Ox goulash

with bread dumpling, organic egg and sausage

Venison ragout

with broccoli, chestnuts, cranberries and Schupfnudeln

Cakes and Pastries

Viennese Apple Strudel

Filled with a mix of apples, raisins, butter bread crumbs and cinnamon

MangoTart

Mango cream with creme fraiche mousse on a coconut base

"Rehrücken" with almonds

Chocolate-nut cake mixed with homemade cranberry jam

Esterhazy Torte

Layers of almond batter and vanilla-butter-creme with maraschino cherry, glazed with a fondant-icing

Walnut cake

with butter cream

Valrhona chocolate mousse

made with whole milk and dark chocolate

Crumble cake

made with sand dough mass and fruits

Chocolate pistachio cake

Chocolate biscuit with nuts and raspberry

Desserts

Chocolate-hazelnut bundt cake

Hot chocolate sponge cake topped with warm chocolate sauce, vanilla ice cream and whipped cream

Palatschinken

Austrian crepes filled with apricot jam or chocolate sauce

Crème Brûlée

made with Tahiti vanilla, served with cassis sorbet

Imperial Torte

N°1 DAS ORIGINAL

Our master confection in its original variety (light chocolate glaze)

N°2 SCHWARZE ORANGE

Our master confection with orange marzipan and a hint of coffee-flavor, glazed with dark chocolate

N°3 FEINE HIMBEERE

Our master confection filled with raspberry paste and glazed in dark chocolate

Wiener Kaiserschmarrn

Wiener Kaiserschmarrn (30 minutes preparation time)

with rum raisins, plum- and apricot puree

Ice Cream

Portion of mixed ice-cream

4 scoops

Small portion of mixed ice-cream

2 scoops

Portion of whipped cream

Portion of ice-cream wafers

Ice Cream Creations

Imperial Coupe "fine raspberry"

Imperial ice cream, raspberry sorbet, raspberry brandy

Coupe "Ringstraße"

Strawberry-, vanilla- and lemon ice-cream, fresh berries and whipped cream

Fruits Granola Coupe

Lemon, black currant, mango sorbet, homemade granola, fruits and yoghurt

Viennese Iced Coffee

Chilled coffee with vanilla ice-cream and whipped cream

Iced Chocolate

Ice cold chocolate with vanilla ice-cream and whipped cream

A Tribute to Viennese Coffeehouse Tradition

Viennese Specialties The day starts with a lavish buffet breakfast at the legendary Café Imperial Wien.

Afterwards, guests can enjoy delicious Viennese specialties and tidbits together with popular coffee variations such as Wiener Melange (coffee & milk blend), Pharisäer (the Austrian-style Irish Coffee) or Maria Theresia (black coffee with orange liqueur and whipped cream) as well as the home-made Imperial Torte until 11 PM.

At Café Imperial Wien the guest is king. Individual wishes are fulfilled any time and always with great pleasure.

A Success Story Goes Around the World

Imperial Torte Legend has it that kitchen apprentice Xaver Loibner created the Imperial Torte on the occasion of the opening of Hotel Imperial in 1873, in honor of Emperor Francis Joseph I, and his creation has been rightly considered the brightest jewel in Vienna's confectionery crown ever since. Young Xaver guarded his recipe like a treasure, and it remains secret to this day. Just as in 1873, the Torte today is an exquisite indulgence: The melt-in-the-mouth chocolate icing, a slightly tart aroma of almonds and the fusion of chocolate buttercream and marzipan make for an utterly perfect composition.

For generations now, the Imperial Torte has been made by hand with passion and attention to detail.