Hans und Fritz Buschenschank — Restaurant in Vienna

Had a great time there. Highly recommended but there's one big minus.

Let's start with the plusses:

location: Right in the vineyards with a fantastic view wine: Very good local whites. We tried the 2023 Nussberg Grüner Veltliner, the 2023 Nussberg Gemischter Satz and the 2017 Riede Weisleiten Gemischter Satz. The first two were perfectly good fresh young Austrian wines, the third was fantastic. food: all the standards we tried were great: Steinberg Jause, high quality, delicious charcuterie plate, Bio Leberpastete is also fantastic. I was a bit disappointed by the Kalbskopf with chanterelles (a special, not on the standard menu). It was high quality as well, just a bit bland in my opinion. service: all of the very stressed out young staff were perfectly lovely.

Now to the one big minus:

the concept: They're trying to update the traditional "Heuriger" concept. Nothing wrong about that, try something new, I'm all for it. Unfortunately the way they do it is strictly worse. For those who don't know, the traditional way is, you have table service for drinks and for food you go to the bar, select what you want and pay by weight.

Here, it's self service for food and drinks and you select dishes from a menu, so no mixing and matching.

I don't mind the latter point so much, the food is really good, better than at a typical Heuriger, and I understand it helps with planning ahead. Still, the way it works, ordering at the bar and then having the cooks shout out table numbers that nobody clearly hears if you're not sitting close to the bar seems just stressful for everyone.

The real downgrade is that there's no drinks service. It means that you have to queue up for ~20 minutes for a glass of wine, which again means that you basically have to buy by the bottle, which you'll always low-ball. Then you're sitting at your table dry, eyeing the line, deciding whether you want to queue up again, behind 20 people who are going to debate if their salad is gluten free or whatever, just for another drink....

Authentic Austrian winery (HEURIGER) with a beautiful view above the whole city. Really good and fresh one I would recommend to take the liter liter ( 1 L of white wine in 1 L of soda) and the beef tartare is also amazing there. Family and dog friendly. Also open on Mondays, which is a big plus. Very few friendly staff and professional cook as well. And amazing experience for...

A perfect way to finish our time in Vienna! Great wine, great food, and the best view of Vienna. Wonderful staff who were so hospitable. Thank you very much!

If you are coming on public transport from the city center, be aware the walk from the team station is quite the hike. If you aren’t in good shape, I recommend getting a taxi from the tram station. They accept...