Coffee Culture in Vienna, the Capital of Music

Coffee Culture in Vienna, the Capital of Music

Perhaps Austria has already bloomed such a flower in the hearts of the world, which has nothing to do with beauty or art. It blooms on the taste buds, but it is not only satisfied with the pleasure of the mouth. It passes through the years, but it adds more fragrance. Black coffee is the proudest black in Austria.

Coffee is something that Viennese enjoy talking about and are quite proud of. The Viennese even compare it with music and waltz, collectively referred to as the "three treasures of Vienna", which shows the deep relationship between Viennese and coffee. We have long heard of "Vienna five steps and one coffee", which may be an exaggeration by romantic poets, but it is an indisputable fact that there are so many cafes in Vienna. From coffee kiosks for standing drinking in street corners and cafes where students gather near colleges and universities, to the magnificent and luxurious coffee shops next to the theatre and the Imperial City, they are all crowded and bustling. Some cafes open at 06:30 in the morning and don't close until 2 a.m. Therefore, it is not too much to say that the air of the "capital of music" is not only flowing with the melody of music, but also filled with the fragrance of coffee.

There are many cafes in Vienna, and Longman Cafe is one of the most elegant representatives. The first time I stepped into Longtman Cafe, I felt a sense of distance. The light is full, the decoration is luxurious, the waiter is polite, but you can't easily get close to the heart of the cafe. It is also true that such a famous cafe, which has been loved by the upper-class gentry for more than a century, has already become another world. Is it easy to touch the nobility and elegance that fills it? Here, there are gentlemen and ladies who have just finished watching the play from the Castle Theater, professors and experts from the University of Vienna opposite, party and government dignitaries from the nearby Parliament and City Hall, and countless political and business conferences held here. As the most elegant coffee shop, Longman Cafe is the current style of Vienna.

Cafes in Austria are different from other places. Here, the Austrian turned coffee tasting into literature, art and a way of life.

The story starts with PeterAltenberg. He was called "the neglected writer" by modern scholars, but together with several other writers of the same period, he promoted the literary atmosphere of the cafe. It is said that they like to meet at cafes from time to time, sometimes they get together to discuss with each other, and sometimes they create by drinking coffee on their own. So when he was mentioned, people said, "he's not in the cafe. He's on his way to the cafe."

In the streets of Austria, people can see spacious coffee restaurants and coffee houses everywhere, and there are many cafes connected with situational restaurants, bookstores, bars, audio and video shops, song and dance theatres, etc. The newspaper table is the most indispensable and unique corner of the whole cafe. Decades or even hundreds of years ago, when information was scarce, spending a few silver coins on a cup of coffee and sitting in a coffee shop reading newspapers around the world was definitely a luxury. Therefore, the cafe has inevitably become the preferred place for artists and poets to meet. The famous Central Cafe, for example, has specially placed a pamphlet listing all 200 newspapers that can be read in the cafe.

In fact, today's Austrians love and value coffee and cafes as much as tourists from all over the world. They enjoy spending time with friends in cafes or sipping coffee while flipping through newspapers on warm afternoons. As a native Austrian writer said, "the cafe is our home."