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Eating & Drinking
Despite its visitor numbers, Baden has relatively few places to fill the hole.
Cafe Damals
(Rathausgasse 3; mains €9-14; 10am-11pm)
Baden's most personality-packed feeding point
takes diners way back to the days of the Habsburgs in unashamedly nostalgic fashion. A
moustachioed Franz Joseph I plus various other monarchs glower down disapprovingly
as you munch on well-prepared Austrian favourites.
AUSTRIAN
$$
Cafe Central
(Hauptplatz 19; 7am-8pm Tue-Sat, 8am-8pm Sun)
The town's epicentral cafe has an apt name, po-
sitioned as it is on Hauptplatz. The interior is a real kick up the '80s (or is it '70s?) with
blue leather seating and faux veneer panelling.
CAFE
Weinkult
(
www.weinkult.at
; Pfarrgasse 7; antipasto €10; 11.30am-8pm Tue-Fri, 10.30am-5pm Sat)
This wine shop
sells almost 150 Austrian wines and serves 10 (mostly) Austrian wines by the glass, ro-
tating the selection on a weekly basis. Antipasto is served to prime the palate.
WINE BAR
Information
Baden Tourismus
(
226 00-600;
www.baden.at
; Brusattiplatz 3;
9am-6pm Mon-Sat, to 4pm Sun May-Sep, to
5pm Mon-Fri Oct-Apr)
Getting There & Around
Bus 360 departs every 30 to 60 minutes (€6, 40 minutes) from the Oper in Vienna. In
Baden bus 362 runs between the Thermalstrandbad and Bahnhof via the centre.
Regional and S-Bahn trains connect Baden with Wien-Meidling (€5.80, 20 minutes,
three times hourly) and with Wiener Neustadt (€5.80, 20 minutes).
A
Lokalbahn
tram (€6.30, one hour, every 15 minutes, 40 minutes) connects the Oper
in Vienna with Josefsplatz in Baden.
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