Since: 1618
Since its beginnings, ‘Zum schwarzen Kameel’ has been a place for those who enjoy the occasional goose liver in their diet, and higher level of service and class with their coffeehouse. Well, Zum schwarze Kameel isn’t just a coffeehouse, but also a highly respected restaurant. Its owners actually claim it to be a precious world of unearthly delights…and we’d say, if they deflate this claim from all of the marketing hype, they’d be almost right.
It was opened by a guy named Johan Baptist Cameel – yep, no camels here, this is where the name of the place comes from. It was actually originally a spice shop. Then a guy named Joseph Stiebitz took it over and formed it into the institution of the city’s dining scene that it is today.
The crowd who run this place have put in great effort to preserve the idea that this should be a place of sensual pleasure that turns on all of your senses.
It was in 1901 that it got its Art Nouveau interior design and this truly is a pleasure for your sense of sight. The whole experience here speaks of spice markets in faraway lands and the elegance of a noble Viennese coffeehouse slash restaurant.
Throwback fact: the store still sells spices like the original version of the place did all those years ago
