Yes, yes, yes — a touristy place, but in this city “everything is messed up” (c). You won’t believe it, but here a touristy place can be tasty, friendly, and beautiful.

So, in the very center, in a crowd of tourists, you squeeze through a chain of “children on an excursion”, which are blocking you from the entrance to lunch, and you finally break in.

According to local standards the interior is quite restrained, without any golden crap. However, on the second floor it all starts galloping in a kind of “post-Jugend-luxury” with curved wood, steely steel and, in general, as it is common in here (in the city), everything is made of pressed money (c).

Fuck them. We’re going to order food.

It is May, nearly June, and white asparagus is “in bloom”.

Until I happened to be in Vienna in May-June, I was sure that white asparagus are those sluggish, tasteless, fibrous, phallic pieces in the dishes. Put there just for fun, for the price and for a special audience.

Not quite so!

White asparagus “from the bush” at this very short time of year is impressing: its texture, crispness, fragility, and very complicated, slightly sweet taste with heap and heaps of notes and aftertastes.

So, in this place the asparagus is like that. The good kind.

This is lunch. There aren’t many dishes, and no one wants to miss the asparagus. So we get it and of course Wiener Schnitzel.

How else?

It comes thin, same fragility as the asparagus, spread out on the plate with a fried crust, like a nano-wall. It’s accompanied by cranberry jam and leaf salad with mad tasty mustard and potatoes. That’s not on the diet, but what will you do?

«It was all MAGNIFICENT!» ™.

++ There was beer, which I don’t usually drink, but!

And that was lunch. For dinner, check it out for yourself, but something tells me, you won’t be disappointed.

Do enjoy!