Hildebrandt Cafe
Trendy Millennial residents from Vienna’s elegant District 8 (Josefstadt) fill the small tables of Hildebrandt, a popular breakfast restaurant in this sleepy but prosperous part of town. Amid Vienna's Middle Eastern food-dominated breakfast landscape, here you can also enjoy a satisfying plate of ham and eggs, granola bowl, and waffles.
The location is the run-down Palace Schönborn, a summer house of Friedrich Karl von Schönborn, the Vice-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire. The architect was the Baroque superstar, Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt, hence the establishment's moniker (the restaurant shares the ground floor with the quirky Austrian Folk Museum). Forget about a table without advance booking. Breakfast served until 3 p.m.
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