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Zum Weissen Rauchfangkehrer Frommer's Recommended

Weihburggasse 4, Vienna

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Cuisine Viennese
Hours Tues-Sat 6pm-midnight
Location Innere Stadt (Inner City)
Transportation U-Bahn: Stephansplatz
Reservations Reservations required
Phone 01/5123471
Prices Main courses 15€-26€ ($24-$42)
Credit Cards DC, MC, V
Closed Closed July and Aug

Zum Weissen Rauchfangkehrer Review

Established in the 1860s, this dinner-only place is the former guildhall for Vienna's chimney sweeps. In fact, the restaurant's name (translated as the "white chimney sweep") comes from the story of a drunken and blackened chimney sweep who fell into a kneading trough and woke up the next day covered in flour. The dining room is rustic, with deer antlers, fanciful chandeliers, and pine banquettes that vaguely resemble church pews. A piano in one of the inner rooms provides nighttime music and adds to the comfortable ambience. Big street-level windows let in lots of light. The hearty, flavorful menu offers Viennese fried chicken, both Tyrolean and Wiener schnitzel, wild game, veal goulash, bratwurst, and several kinds of strudel. You'll certainly want to finish with the house specialty, a fabulously rich chocolate cream puff.

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