Vienna’s first Icelandic café opened about a year ago, and its name describes accurately the feel of the place. At Home cafe, they serve up some great homemade Icelandic food (with fresh fish delivered weekly from Iceland), homemade bread, good coffee and heartwarming friendliness. They aim to make everything they can themselves at this random cafe, and what they can’t do in house, they either buy locally, or try and import it in from Iceland. They used to change up the menu on an almost daily basis and served what their chef felt like (or what ingredients and fish they could get their hands on). Now, they’ve put the most popular dishes on the menu, but this one is still not set in stone. So every visit is a new surprise!
The idea behind this super cosy café, with the mix and match interior, is to bring a little bit of their Icelandic home to Vienna in the space of a living room atmosphere. And they’ve succeeded – it’s comfy, inviting and makes you want to cocoon up in it for the day.
They also have some great craft beer on tap from the local microbrewers, Brew Age.
We recommend… the Hjónabandssæla, which is a typical Icelandic cake that translates to ‘Happy Marriage Cake’ and truly does taste like a happy marriage.
What we especially love… is that their neighbours, the specialty coffee pros, Coffee Pirates, taught them how to make coffee, and they’ve even got their own roast, called ‘Home Cafe.’
