The City Code · Austria
Vienna
Imperial formality, still observed and still enjoyable.
Arriving
The City Airport Train, sixteen minutes, or a car for the Ring hotels.
Book this first
Opera or Musikverein tickets, months ahead, then the coffee house with the good corner tables.
What is worn
Formal for the opera — black tie is not unusual in the boxes.
Money & manners
Round to the next note and say the total to the waiter rather than leaving coins.
The golden hour
Four in the afternoon in a coffee house in winter, with the newspapers on their wooden poles.
The usual mistake
Rushing a coffee house. The table is yours for as long as you like — that is the entire point.
From the collection
The stay, the table, the morning
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