The Heart of Joy — Restaurant in Salzburg

I had a quick bite to eat before heading to the train station and I liked it so much that I put it into my “Favorite Place to go” folder for my next visit.

I’ll share more details below but to sum it up, it's a fully vegetarian cafe offering a huge variety of vegan and gluten-free options. This cafe is not just a place to eat delicious food but also a place to practice conscious living.

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🌍Sustainability. They focus on organic and regional ingredients as well as fair trade products.

🏡: They have a very nice outdoor seating area as well as large indoor space. During the hot summer days, you may enjoy sitting inside. And if you are lucky, you can get a spot near the fan.

🥗The cafe is fully vegetarian but offers lots of vegan and gluten-free options. Also, the food they serve is free of white sugar or and additives such as glutamate (health risks).

My favorite options include:

🥣Breakfast: Porridge with different flavors

🥙Lunch/Snack: Red lentil soup (small or large) - Vegan (V) / Gluten-Free (GF) Lentils with rice and salad - V/GF Curry of the day - V/GF Falafel Wrap - V Heart of Joy Salad with falafel or tofu - V/GF

🧁Sweet: A variety of cakes, such as Spelt apple cake - V - with Birkengold Carrot almond cake - GF Raw chocolate/ cashew cake - V/GF

💶I paid 5.30 Euro for my small lentil soup (delicious) 3.90 Euro for a decaf cappuccino with oat milk (ok) and 4.80 Euro for the apple/spelt cake (yummy). Sounds reasonable to me. I haven’t tried it yet but looking at the breakfast options with oatmeal (porridge), they seem pricey for what you get, especially the Vedic Breakfast (1 cold-pressed juice, organic tea and porridge with fruit for 17.40 Euro). The other two porridge dishes are 9.40 Euro and 11.40 Euro… after all oats and seasonal fruit are not expensive. (I do eat a lot of oatmeal at home)

⏰Daily at 8 am - 7 pm, Fri/Sat/Sun until 8.30 pm

💳They only accepted cash. On the website it says its a temporary measure.

💻They sockets available where you can charge your...

Went twice, for breakfast and lunch. Breakfast we got excellent americano 100% arabica coffee and cappuccino probably one the best in town with oat milk, very good vegan apple cake not too sweet and very balanced with cinnamon with vegan cream and vegan chocko topping. We came back for lunch and we got a nice mix salads we asked to add some seasonal fruit and nuts and staff were very kind they added oranges berries and raisins on top of a very fresh gourmet mix green salads, sprouts and aromatic herbs. They also provide very good vinegars, Himalayan salt and different oils, I enjoyed the pumpking seeds beside the olive oil (a must for me as Italian). Bread multigrain was organic and very rich and good baked. The vegan curry was very indian style tasty and not over spicy (I am not fan of extra spicy) well cooked basmati rice. We also tasted a alchool free drink I never heard before called Poska, made in Austria is made out of vinegar, grape juice and spices according to an old roman recipe. Staff very friendly even if it was busy they found time to sing happy birthday song for a young girl when they brought her the cake. They told me that they meditate before cooking and serving my yhis is the reason. I think is important to offer conscious food experience. There was also a statue of their meditation teacher. To be noted a market corner with good quality supplements, superfood and rare incences. Finally restrooms were...

Some veggies for a pre-concert dinner after a heavy lunch. The curry smell, mixed with incense aroma, almost changed my mind: Mushroom sweet pepper curry (afterthought: actually sounds similar to my stroganoff minus beef). It tastes good but not as flavorful as it smells. (I should have asked for less rice). Rice is a few minutes undercooked. Since water costs money in this country and I don’t really want juice/sugar water, I chose chia white grape juice out of curiosity (someone saw it and ordered the same hh), which is still quite sweet. The floating chia lol don’t let your imagination think about something else. It is itself tasteless and balances the juice. Salad is refreshing. Fresh and crunchy, stuffed into the bowl— which can be a little messy to eat. The vegetarian restaurant seems to be affiliated with some religious organization, with ads for meditation and peaceful postcards. Background music is calming. Anyways....