Ostwind Szechuan Restaurant — Restaurant in Vienna

If you like authentic Sichuan food, Ostwind is the place to go. For many years now, this restaurant offered a great variety of Sichuan specialties (and also some dim sum selections), and all are prepared impeccably fresh and superbly cooked. You know you are in a good place when the tripe and beef salad arrives, bathed in a hot chili-oil dressing. The same goes for the plate of crunchy pig's ears. A generous pot of (very spicy) chicken "soup" was redolent of spices, with a generous amount of mouth-numbing Sichuan pepper. Addictively good! Service is friendly, attentive and efficient. Prices...

I don't know what people where smoking when they left good reviews on this restaurant, share some with the class please. As a Chinese and a person who has eaten at many different Chinese restaurants, this is the first time a place has ever made me leave a bad review, let alone one this bad. The soup was in a pinkish hue and tasted like crushed hopes and dreams. Some part of our meal was way too salty the other not at all. Is there a quota on salt here? Like only 2 teaspoons of salt per table and if you reach the limit then you don't add any more? Because it felt like it....

I’ve eaten in China on many occasions and the food here comes very close! It is the best restaurant I know in Vienna for authentic Chinese Sichuan cuisine. Food is very tasty, spicy, although bearable as long as you don’t ask for extra spicy food. Some dishes are a bit oily/fat. I’m General I think their normal main dishes were superior to all their special dishes. They also offer duck but only with notice a few days in advance. We even drank some Chinese bai jiu liquor, very strong. I can really recommend this place! Neighborhood around is very nice to...