Art and delight in the museum The Café & Restaurant in the splendid cupola hall of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien is not only a pleasant spot to unwind during the day, its incredible culinary events are also a wonderful means of spending an evening with friends and family in this special gourmet ambiance. Come with us on a food tour of the museum and enjoy a nice day or evening at the Kunsthistorische Museum Wien with friends and family.

The café maintains the classic Viennese coffee house style. When I visited, the service had that sweet cultivated, polite formality in which you can spend many a happy hour debating what they are actually thinking.

Last time I visited, they had a very large variety of coffees, teas, soft drinks, beers, wines, and some hot and cold snacks & meals with all the usual Viennese flavors with one or two veggie and other choices, as well.

On a previous visit, I had a quite good and substantial red lentil salad followed by a lemon soda.

With the artistic location, I ought to have requested vermouth and laudanum drunk from a duchess passing by in Prussian shoes. (That was not on the menu, inexplicably.)

If budgeting, this is perhaps not the first port of call, although prices are relatively standard for Vienna’s smart city centre locations these days.

And what an incredibly beautiful location in which to take your coffee.

You sit under the principal dome in an upholstered chair or sofa. Eight black and gold columns arch upwards that lift your gaze over frolicking statues and angels to reliefs commemorating the likes of Archduke Ferdinand II and, naturally enough, the ubiquitous Emperor Franz Joseph.

It’s the “if there’s a space then fill it” theory of architecture you also notice in many Baroque churches in the town.

Sitting below such an assault on the senses can intrigue, inspire, and intimidate in equal measure.