Vienna Food Tours
Vienna eats grandly and simply at once: the coffee houses where a Melange and a slice of cake are a way of life, the Naschmarkt, the sausage stands that never close, and the imperial classics – Wiener Schnitzel, Tafelspitz, Sachertorte and warm apple strudel. This is our Vienna food hub. Below are the top-rated food experiences, then our wine and cooking pages.
Top-rated food experiences in Vienna
The best food experiences to book in Vienna
The top-rated experience of each kind in Vienna, side by side: one pick per type, chosen by GetYourGuide reviews. Each links to our full comparison for that type.
| Experience | Length | Rating (reviews) | Best for | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coffeehouse Tour with Pastries, Bites and Stories | 3.5 hours | 5.0 (48) | Coffee House Tour | Check availability |
| Johann Strauss Dinner Show at the Prater | 3 hours | 4.6 (1,037) | Concert Dinners & Dinner Shows | Check availability |
| Hands-On Wiener Schnitzel and Strudel Cooking Class | 3 hours | 4.9 (151) | Cooking Classes | Check availability |
| Food and Coffee Tour: Market, Lunch and Street Food | 5.5 hours | 5.0 (338) | Food Tours | Check availability |
| Half-Day Countryside Wine Tour with Heuriger Meal | 4 to 5.5 hours | 4.7 (675) | Wine Tours & Heuriger | Check availability |
Our pick: the Coffeehouse Tour with Pastries, Bites and Stories, rated 5.0 from 48 reviews on GetYourGuide.
Ratings and review counts as shown on GetYourGuide in October 2026. Check the listing for live prices and availability.
How to choose
Pick the kind of experience first. On a first visit, a guided food tour is the quickest way to taste Vienna; a hands-on class suits a free afternoon or evening; a tasting fits in between sights. For the full choice, see our pages for coffee house tour, concert dinners & dinner shows, cooking classes, food tours and wine tours & heuriger.
Formats: food tours of the Naschmarkt and old town with tastings and a coffee-house stop; sausage-stand and market crawls; cooking classes and wine and Heuriger tours (see their own pages).
What to eat: Wiener Schnitzel, Tafelspitz, Käsekrainer from the Würstelstand, Sachertorte, apple strudel, Kaiserschmarrn, and a Melange in a coffee house.
An evening in Vienna: concert dinners and dinner shows
The coffee house and the cake
The Viennese coffee house is a UNESCO-listed intangible heritage, and rightly: a marble-topped world where you order a Melange or an Einspänner, it arrives with a glass of water, and you stay for hours with a newspaper and a slice of cake. The cake is often Sachertorte, the dense chocolate-and-apricot torte whose “original” Hotel Sacher and Demel still dispute, or warm Apfelstrudel. A food tour always builds in a coffee-house stop.
The market, the sausage stand and the imperial kitchen
The Naschmarkt is the city’s great market, a long run of stalls of cheese, olives, spices and street food. On the street, the Würstelstand sausage stands are a Viennese institution, open late, serving the cheese-filled Käsekrainer and the Bosna. And the sit-down classics come from the imperial table: Wiener Schnitzel, veal pounded thin and fried golden; Tafelspitz, the boiled beef that was Emperor Franz Joseph’s favourite; and Gulasch.
How to do it
Food tours run three to four hours, market to coffee house, with tastings; a tour on the first day maps the city’s food. To cook the schnitzel and strudel yourself, see our Vienna cooking classes; to drink the city’s own wine in its Heuriger taverns, our Vienna wine tours.
Read next: What is a Heuriger?
How we choose
We list only experiences with a strong rating over a meaningful number of reviews and free cancellation where available, and we favour small-group and family-run hosts. FindEatLocal earns a commission when you book through GetYourGuide or Viator links on this page; it doesn’t change the price you pay. More about how we choose.
FAQ about Vienna Food Tours
Frequently asked questions
Why Vienna for food?
Because it turned coffee and cake into a UNESCO-listed culture, keeps a great market and a sausage-stand tradition, and still cooks the dishes of an empire - and has vineyards inside the city.
What is the one thing to eat in Vienna?
A proper Wiener Schnitzel, and a slice of Sachertorte in a coffee house with a Melange; a Käsekrainer from a sausage stand for the street version.
Why are Vienna’s coffee houses special?
They are a UNESCO-listed cultural institution - places to linger for hours over coffee and cake, served with a glass of water, not just grab a drink.
What is Tafelspitz?
Boiled beef in broth with apple-horseradish and chive sauce, the Emperor’s favourite dish and a Viennese classic to seek out.
What is the best food experience in Vienna?
It depends on the kind you want. The most booked are the Coffeehouse Tour with Pastries, Bites and Stories (coffee house tour) and the Johann Strauss Dinner Show at the Prater (concert dinners & dinner shows). The table above shows the top pick for each type, with ratings.