
Austria
Easter Pinza
Osterpinze
Easter Pinza is a lightly sweet yeast bread with three cuts, made for Easter in Styria, Burgenland, and Croatian regions where it is called Pinca.
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Austria
Osterpinze
Easter Pinza is a lightly sweet yeast bread with three cuts, made for Easter in Styria, Burgenland, and Croatian regions where it is called Pinca.

Vienna, Austria
Eiernockerl are soft flour-and-egg dumplings tossed in butter and scrambled egg, usually finished with chives.

Vienna, Austria
Espresso topped with generous whipped cream, served in a tall glass, named after carriage drivers, strong coffee with fresh cream, traditional.

Styria, Austria
Ennstaler Steirerkas is a crumbly Styrian sour-milk cheese with a salty, pungent aroma and dry curd.

Austria
Erdaepfelgulasch braises potato chunks with onion, sweet paprika, caraway and stock, without needing meat.

Austria
Esterházytorte
Cake with almond meringue layers and buttercream, iced with fondant and characteristic chocolate stripes, a classic coffeehouse dessert, elegant.

Vienna, Austria
Verlängerter
Espresso extended with hot water, similar to Americano but less water, milder and smoother than straight espresso, a daily coffeehouse staple.

Vienna, Austria
Austrian cold cut made from spiced beef, pork, and bacon fat mixture, fine texture with good spice balance, known in Vienna since 1820s.

Vienna, Austria
Espresso with rum and whipped cream topping, named after Viennese horse-drawn carriages, good rum quality with balanced sweetness, traditional.

Vienna, Austria
Fiakergulasch is a beef goulash served with a fried egg, sausage, pickled cucumber and sometimes a rolled gherkin.

Slovakia
Slovakia's main red grape, grown in the Small Carpathians, making a peppery, high-acid wine drunk young.

Austria
Obstler
Obstler is a clear Alpine fruit brandy distilled from apples, pears, plums, or mixed orchard fruit, especially associated with Austria and southern Germany.

Carinthia, Austria
Gailtaler Almkäse is a firm Carinthian alpine cow-milk cheese with a buttery body, small eyes and nutty ripening notes.

Carinthia, Austria
Gailtaler Speck
Carinthian bacon, dry-salted, pressed, marinated, and cold-smoked over beech and elder wood, rich salty flavor with pronounced smoky aroma, rare.

Austria
Gebackene Blunznradln are rounds of blood sausage coated in crumbs and fried until the outside is crisp.

Vienna, Austria
Gemischter Satz is a Viennese field blend in which several grape varieties grow, ripen and are harvested together in one vineyard.

Austria
Lebkuchen
Spiced honey cakes with nuts and candied fruit, Austrian Christmas gingerbread, soft and fragrant, good spice balance, a festive holiday staple, traditional.

Vojvodina, Serbia
Gulyásleves
Goulash soup is a Hungarian beef soup with paprika, potatoes, caraway, and csipetke noodles traditionally cooked in a bogrács.

Austria
Austria's signature white wine, known for peppery notes and food versatility, good acidity with characteristic white pepper notes, a national icon.

Austria
Eiswein
Noble sweet wine made from grapes frozen naturally on the vine at -7°C, high sugar concentration with balancing acidity, concentrated and rare.

Upper Austria, Austria
Innviertler Surspeck is Upper Austrian cured pork made through the Innviertel sour-curing and salting tradition.

Austria
Ischler Torte is a dessert made with a defined local recipe and ingredients.

Austria
Kaisersemmel
Kaiser Roll is a dish made with a defined local recipe and ingredients.

Austria
Kaiserschmarrn is a thick airy pancake torn into caramelised pieces, served with plum or fruit compote in Austria and neighbouring traditions.

Vienna, Austria
Kalbsrahmgulasch braises tender veal in paprika-scented stock finished with cream, often alongside bread dumplings.

Austria
Pressed Alpine cheese dumplings made from bread, cheese, onion, and herbs; broth is one common serving.

Styria, Austria
Klachelsuppe is a Styrian pork-trotter soup thickened with root vegetables, barley or flour and sharpened with vinegar.

Austria
Austrian doughnuts filled with apricot jam or vanilla cream, dusted with powdered sugar, light and fluffy, a carnival and daily treat, beloved.

Carinthia, Austria
Kärntner Kirchtagssuppe is a saffron-tinted festive broth enriched with beef, lamb and chicken, cream and herbs.

Vorarlberg, Austria
Käsdönnala is a Vorarlberg flatbread spread with sour cream, onion and mountain cheese, then baked until bubbling.

Bavaria, Austria
Meat Loaf
Meatloaf made from finely ground pork, beef, and bacon, baked until crispy outside and juicy inside, contains no liver in Austria, a daily staple.

Carinthia, Austria
Lesachtaler Brot
Protected Lesachtal farmhouse bread is a sourdough grain loaf tied to local wood-fired baking traditions in Carinthia.

Linz, Austria
Linzer Augen
Linzer cookie sandwiches with jam filling showing through like an eye, smaller version of Linzer Torte, good linzer dough, a festive Christmas treat.

Linz, Austria
Oldest named torte in the world (1653), with nut and spice shortcrust, lattice top, and redcurrant jam filling, a legendary Upper Austrian specialty.

Slovakia
Liptovská bryndzová nátierka
Liptauer is a paprika-seasoned spread based on fresh curd cheese, onion, capers, and herbs; the Slovak Liptov form and Austrian Heuriger version share one canonical.

Austria
Leberknödel
Liver dumplings made from finely ground liver, bread, eggs, and herbs; broth is a common serving, where the dumplings should stay tender and savoury.