Café
Café Sacher
Philharmoniker Str. 4, 1010 Wien
Historic Viennese coffeehouse serving the original chocolate sponge torte at the center of a decades-long court battle.
This guide to Café Sacher in Vienna follows the chocolate torte a sixteen-year-old apprentice cook, Franz Sacher, invented for Prince Metternich in 1832, and how his son Eduard carried the family recipe into this café in 1876. You'll hear how a later sale accidentally split the recipe between two rival Viennese addresses, and the courtroom battle over trademarks, jam layers and margarine that followed. Best paired with a slice and a coffee at a window table.
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