Café Bendl, Vienna 🇦🇹

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Location: Landesgerichtsstraße 6, 1010 Wien, Austria

Venue Type: Café Bar / Late Bar / Scuzz / Boazn

Year of Inscription: 2022

EBG Rating:
8.6/10
Choice/
Quality of Drinks
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Basic lager with some ok alternatives. Wine and spirits are similarly routine Viennese offerings.
Style/
Décor
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Not too well preserved old-fashioned café situated just by the city hall that has long ago shed any pretensions of elegance or high society. Crackled, worn, peeling, but oh-so-characterful.
Atmosphere/
Character
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A superb frozen in time café oozing with character (and god knows what else). The lady of a certain age running the place is well-loved by a young crowd who share space with the remaining old fogeys.
Amenities/
Events
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Outdoor seating, simple food, jukebox
Value For Money
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Fair for the location
Description
Well, well…just when you thought Vienna was a tough nut to crack, along comes this bar hiding in plain sight in one of the most fancy and upmarket areas of the city. It’s a true dive that has seemingly turned an elegant café into a late night bar. The elderly fixtures and fittings crackle and peel but that just adds to the character, along with a lively audience of youngster rubbing shoulders with the older regulars, all of whom are served by and show appreciation for the lady behind the bar who operates in a warm, kindly way. Whether you’re by the bar or in the lounge, there is plenty of atmosphere and a lot to look at. The drinks may be perfunctory but that’s hardly the reason to come here.  (Added August 2022)