You should count yourself lucky, if you manage to grab one of the few seats available in this small confectionery – and if you are totting up the calories, you only have yourself to blame! Master confectioner, Heidi Ratzka, has easily managed to fill her famous father’s shoes. The pope of gourmets, Wolfgang Siebeck, personally crowned him “Emperor of Confectioners”, while Austria’s renowned gourmet guide, the Gault Millau, acclaimed this family-run establishment as the country’s very best confectionery. To this day, father, mother and sister, Birgit, continue to be actively involved with this shop – a veritable pilgrimage site for people from around Europe, who truly appreciate the very best.
As you gaze on their display cases, you probably wish you could sample every single one of the as many as 20 different cakes created each and every day in their tiny bakery: the practically world-famous apricot Marillenfleck, the mouth-watering Parisian Cream, cheese, poppy, rowanberry, almond, Wachauer, pineapple-wheat beer and white poppy-bilberry tortes, to name but a few. And let us not forget those delicate petits fours and homemade cookies.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Friday 8 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. & 1.30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday 8 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. & 1.30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
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