Since: 1904
The insides of Cafè Korb really brings back 60’s nostalgia, with its characterful design and original vintage interior.
It is one of the few coffeehouses that doesn’t necessarily exude the traditional, wood-covered, creaky floorboard, classic Viennese charm, but more its own flavour of spunk.
This may have something to do with its owner, Susanne Widl. This lady has lived many lives as a actress, model, and coffeehouse owner. A true one-of-a-kind personality.
For its opening in 1904, none other than the emperor himself, Franz Joseph I, turned up and kicked out some moves on the dance floor (ok, maybe he just showed up). A few years later, the café became one of the first weekly meeting points for Freud’s “Vienna Psychoanalytic Society”. And to this day, this location is the favourite haunt for Elfride Jelinek, author and Austria’s exclusive winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Throwback fact: Cafe Korb was one of the few cafès in the 19th century to host women as guests
