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Salzburg Map: Stiftskeller St. Peter (Peterskeller)Stiftskeller St. Peter (Peterskeller) Frommer's Highly Recommended

Cuisine Austrian, Viennese
Hours Daily 11:30am-2:30pm and 6-10pm
Address
St.-Peter-Bezirk 1-4
Location On the Left Bank (Old Town)
Transportation Bus: 29
Reservations Reservations recommended
Phone 0662/8412680
Prices Main courses 10€-22€ ($13-$29); fixed-price menus 16€-45€ ($21-$59)
Credit Cards MC, V
Season Closed Dec 24

Frommer's Review

Legend has it that Mephistopheles met with Faust in this tavern, which was established by Benedictine monks in A.D. 803. In fact, it's the oldest restaurant in Europe, housed in the abbey of the church that supposedly brought Christianity to Austria. Aside from a collection of baroque banquet rooms, there's an inner courtyard with vaults cut from the living rock, a handful of dignified wood-paneled rooms, and a brick-vaulted cellar with a tile floor and rustic chandeliers. In addition to wine from the abbey's own vineyards, the tavern serves good home-style Austrian cooking, including roast pork in gravy with sauerkraut and bread dumplings, braised oxtail with mushrooms and fried polenta, and loin of lamb with asparagus. Vegetarian dishes, such as semolina dumplings on noodles in a parsley sauce, are also featured. They are especially known here for their desserts. Try the apple strudel or sweet curd strudel with vanilla sauce or ice cream, and, most definitely, the famed Salzburger Nockerln.

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