Café Imperial is a gilded tribute to the golden age of Vienna—soaring ceilings, chandeliers, polished silver, and service that hasn’t rushed in decades. Located inside the Hotel Imperial, this legendary café is known as much for its imperial gravitas as for its pastries, chief among them the house specialty: the Imperial Torte.
Beyond coffee and cake, the menu offers refined Viennese classics—beef goulash, schnitzel, and tafelspitz—presented with old-world precision. Whether you’re slipping in for an elegant breakfast, a late-afternoon espresso, or a full silver-tray lunch, the experience is more ceremony than sustenance.
Live piano on select evenings adds to the theatre, but the real performance is in the ritual: porcelain cups, crisp linen, and a sense that not much has changed since the Habsburgs.