Sachertorte at Hotel Sacher, which is the original version of the celebrated Viennese chocolate cake They take chocolate cake so seriously in Vienna that the city's two main producers once fought a ...

In certain cafés within Vienna, you can order a dessert tied directly to a documented event from 1832. The recipe has been continuously produced in the same city for nearly two centuries. That level ...

As we’ve had to postpone our travels because of the pandemic, I believe a weekly dose of travel dreaming can be good medicine. Here’s one of my favorite European memories from Vienna — a reminder of ...

Browsing in the gift shop of Vienna’s famed Cafe Sacher, I resist the cookbooks, magnets, robes, and teddy bears. But I can never resist buying an Original Sacher-Torte, a dense but delectable ...

They take chocolate cake so seriously in Vienna that the city's two main producers once fought a nine-year legal battle about it. The dispute was known as the "cake war". The cake in question is the ...