Vienna – Brewminate

Roast Review: Literature and News at Café Central in Vienna since 1876

Posted on June 18, 2021June 30, 2021 by MAMcIntosh

Some of the worlds’ greatest writers, poets, and philosophers have gotten together in Vienna’s most attractive coffeehouse. Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate A revolutionary (Trotsky), a psychoanalyst (Freud), several writers and poets (including Polgar, Zweig and Altenberg) and an architect (Loos) walked into a café. What sounds like the start of a joke was an[…]

The Once and Future Coffeehouses of Vienna

Posted on February 10, 2021February 10, 2021 by MAMcIntosh

Coffee is one of Vienna’s legacies, but how will the city hold onto its past while adapting to the changing culture? The Kaffeehäuser are the public living rooms of Vienna. The home of Mozart and Freud is as famed for its coffee culture as it is for opera. From the grand vaulted ceilings of Café[…]