Midi is the French bistro serving fast, quality, light lunch attracting all types of people.
This is one of the first things you notice at the little French bistro, Midi at Vienna’s Hoher Markt square in the 1st district – the eclectic range of lunch diners. There’s an older lady drinking red wine with her lunch, a bunch of young pretty people at the back, and a businessman who’s having trouble keeping his tie out of his soup.
Midi combines the tasty cooking the French are famed for (besides their kissing) – with the fast and fresh lunch culture which is seeing more and more people eating lunch hunched over a reasonably priced plate of light, healthy food, rather than a computer at work.
The weekly changing menu sees two different dishes served daily (one vegetarian and one with meat) from the cooks current 80 dish repertoire. It’s self-service, in which you grab one of the pastel blue trays and select from the steaming dishes behind the counter.
A range of salads are also packaged to grab and go in a fridge cabinet that also houses a few French drinks. The cosy, pastel-coloured place housed in a building dating back to the 16th century has limited seating, however never fear, people eat and move on quite quickly, and there’s also a takeaway option if there’s no seat to be seen.
