Zweitbester – Margaretenstraße/ Operngasse

Zweitbester doesn’t claim to be the best, but instead, they are more than happy being in a solid second place. Located in the heart of the 4th district, sandwiched between the Naschmarkt and Margaretenstraße is this former coffeehouse turned bar-restaurant-gallery fusion. It’s sporting a copper and concrete combo with their polished concrete bar, copper pipes everyhwere and bare brick walls. They offer a lunch menu made up of international cuisine which they change up every day, and is damn delicious. Meanwhile, plenty come here for the Zweitbester cheeseburger (we think the tasty onion chutney in it might have something to do with it) and their quinoa salad made a good impression on us. But there’s more to this place than their excellent food and drinks, as it also serves as a gallery, lending the place a creative edge. Every other month, they have a local artist put their artwork up on the walls.

The interior is dark, noir and moody and somehow feels incomplete because of the exposed exhaust system hanging from the arched roof, but that’s the rough and ready look that turns people on these days.