Austria

🇦🇹Austria

Almdudler

Austria's national soft drink: herbal carbonated lemonade made from Alpine herbs, called the national drink, natural herbal flavor, iconic and refreshing.

🇦🇹Vienna, Austria

Alt-Wiener Suppenhuhn (Old Vienna-Style Chicken Soup)

Alt-Wiener Suppenhuhn is a clear Viennese broth built from a poached hen, root vegetables, parsley and fine noodles.

🇦🇹Austria

Apple Strudel

Apfelstrudel

Thin pastry rolled with spiced apple filling, raisins, and breadcrumbs, traditionally stretched by hand until paper-thin, a legendary Austrian icon.

🇦🇹Austria

Apricot Dumplings

Marillenknödel

Whole apricots encased in potato or curd dough, rolled in buttered breadcrumbs and served warm during the Austrian summer harvest.

🇦🇹Lower Austria, Austria

Apricot Schnaps

Marillenschnaps

Clear fruit brandy made from apricots, especially from the Wachau region, double-distilled for purity, intense apricot aroma, a legendary Austrian spirit.

🇦🇹Vienna, Austria

Austrian Potato Salad

Erdäpfelsalat

Potato salad Austrian-style, dressed with oil and vinegar rather than mayonnaise, often with beef broth, served with Wiener Schnitzel, a classic side.

🇦🇹Austria

Austrian Quark

Topfen

Austrian curd cheese similar to quark but with lower moisture, essential ingredient in many Austrian dishes, proper crumbly texture, a foundational staple.

🇦🇹Vienna, Austria

Beuschel

Traditional Austrian offal dish made from veal lungs and heart in a creamy sauce, a classic Viennese specialty, tender and rich, adventurous.

🇦🇹Vienna, Austria

Biedermeier-Torte

Biedermeier-Torte is a dessert from Vienna, a sweet finish to the local table.

🇦🇹Austria

Blunzengröstl

Blunzengröstl fries blood sausage with potato, onion and marjoram in a browned skillet dish.

🇦🇹Salzburg, Austria

Bosna

Bosna is a Salzburg sausage roll with grilled pork sausages, raw onion, mustard and curry seasoning in a toasted white roll.

🇦🇹Vienna, Austria

Brauner

Brauner is Vienna’s coffee served as a single or double shot with milk or cream; Kleiner and Großer Brauner describe the size, not separate drinks.

🇦🇹Austria

Bread Dumplings

Semmelknödel

Bread dumplings made from stale bread rolls, milk, and eggs, served as side dish for roasts and goulash, light and fluffy, a staple.

🇦🇹Austria

Brettljause

Rustic snack platter of cold meats, cheeses, pickles, and spreads served on a wooden board, a Heuriger classic, variety of quality meats, traditional.

🇦🇹Vienna, Austria

Bruckfleisch

Bruckfleisch cooks veal or beef offal with onion, paprika, vinegar and stock into a dark, gently acidic ragout.

🇦🇹Austria

Buchteln

Sweet yeast rolls filled with plum jam or apricot preserves, baked together in a pan, soft pull-apart texture, a traditional Austrian dessert, warm.

🇦🇹Austria

Bundt Cake

Gugelhupf

Ring-shaped yeast cake with raisins and almonds, baked in distinctive fluted mold, good rise with moist texture, a traditional Austrian cake, festive.

🇦🇹Austria

Burenwurst

Coarse Austrian parboiled sausage made from beef, pork, and bacon, sold at Würstelstände, coarse texture with good meat quality, boiled not grilled.

🇦🇹Vienna, Austria

Böhmisches Schwammerlgulasch

Böhmisches Schwammerlgulasch simmers forest mushrooms with onion, paprika and sour cream into a thick, earthy sauce.

🇦🇹Austria

Cabbage Pasta

Krautfleckerl

Austrian pasta dish with handmade square pasta and caramelized white cabbage, al dente pasta with well-caramelized cabbage and caraway.

🇮🇹Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy

Canederli

Trentino-Alto Adige bread dumplings of stale bread, speck, cheese, and eggs, boiled and served in broth or with butter and sage. A mountain staple.

🇦🇹Carinthia, Austria

Carinthian Cheese Dumplings

Kärntner Kasnudeln

Half-moon shaped pasta filled with potato and quark cheese, seasoned with mint and herbs, characteristic pleated edges, a Carinthian specialty, traditional.

🇦🇹Carinthia, Austria

Carinthian Farmer’s Doughnut

Bauernkrapfen

Bauernkrapfen is a dessert made with a defined local recipe and ingredients.

🇦🇹Austria

Chanterelles with Egg

Eierschwammerl mit Ei

Eierschwammerl with egg folds sautéed chanterelles into softly set eggs with butter, pepper and parsley.

🇦🇹Tyrol, Austria

Cheese Dumplings

Käseknödel

Cheese dumplings from Tyrol, made with stale bread and local mountain cheese, good cheese flavor with light texture, a hearty Alpine specialty.

🇦🇹Tyrol, Austria

Cheese Noodles

Kasspatzln

Cheese-based dish with small spaetzle-like dumplings and strong local cheese, good cheese flavor with proper dumpling texture, a hearty Austrian specialty.

🇦🇹Austria

Cheese Sausage

Käsekrainer

Cheese-filled sausage with chunks of Emmental cheese, grilled until cheese oozes out, a staple at Austrian sausage stands, smoky and juicy.

🇦🇹Austria

Chocolate Pudding Cake

Mohr im Hemd

Warm chocolate pudding cake, literally 'Moor in a shirt', served with chocolate sauce, moist chocolate texture, a beloved Austrian dessert, rich.

🇩🇪Germany

Christmas Stollen

Christstollen

Christmas Stollen is a broad German fruit bread enriched with butter, dried fruit, and spices, eaten through Advent and distinct from protected Dresdner Stollen.

🇦🇹Austria

Cinnamon Stars

Zimtsterne

Star-shaped cookies made with ground almonds and cinnamon, topped with meringue icing, a German-Austrian Christmas classic, distinctive and spicy, festive.

🇦🇹Austria

Coconut Cookies

Kokosbusserl

Small coconut cookies popular during Austrian Christmas season, good coconut flavor with proper texture, not too sweet, a festive holiday treat, traditional.

🇦🇹Austria

Cremeschnitte

Custard slice with puff pastry.

🇩🇪Germany

Danube Wave Cake

Donauwelle

German sheet cake with cherry and buttercream layers, topped with chocolate glaze resembling waves of the Danube.

🇭🇺Debrecen, Hungary

Debreceni Sausage

Debreceni

Debreceni Sausage is a pork sausage heavily spiced with paprika, garlic, pepper, and marjoram, reddish-orange color.

🇭🇺Hungary

Dobos Cake

Dobostorte

Hungarian Dobos Torte is a layered sponge cake filled with chocolate buttercream and capped by a crisp caramel wedge; Austria knows it as Dobostorte.

🇦🇹Austria

Easter Lamb Cake

Osterlamm

Lamb-shaped sponge or pound cake baked for Easter, symbolizes the Lamb of God, distinctive lamb shape, often dusted with powdered sugar, festive.