Café Diglas on Wollzeile is the flagship of the Viennese Diglas restaurant family and is run by Hans Diglas. It is a few minutes' walk from St. Stephen's Cathedral. Here you choose your cake or torte at the display case. According to the website there is a piano in the café, and according to wien.info there are regular piano concerts on Wednesdays from 18:30.
The Diglas brothers founded the café on Wollzeile in 1923. The Diglas name has been well known in Viennese gastronomy since 1875; the family once ran the Casino Zögernitz, for example, where Johann Strauss father and son performed. The Wollzeile café was the only one of the family's businesses to survive the Great Depression of 1929/30. In 1988 Hans Diglas IV had the café restored to its original condition. According to the menu, its guests have included O. W. Fischer, Franz Lehár, Karl Farkas and Heimito von Doderer.
The cakes and pastries come from the café's own bakery on Fleischmarkt. According to wien.info, the house is especially known for its banana slice and Scheiterhaufen (a baked bread-and-apple pudding); the Diglas chocolate-nut Scheiterhaufen costs €12.50 according to the daily menu from October 2026. The coffee comes from Cottage Roasters, the family's roastery at Gersthofer Markt. The menu linked online dates from April 2025: Wiener Melange (Vienna's milky coffee, similar to a cappuccino) €5.90, Einspänner (black coffee topped with whipped cream) €6.80, kleiner Brauner (small espresso served with a dash of cream) €4.10. Prices on site may have changed since.
The café is open Monday to Wednesday from 08:00 to 22:00, Thursday and Friday from 08:00 to 22:30 and Saturday from 09:00 to 22:30. On Sundays it closes earlier, at 18:00. Hours may differ on public holidays, and the café asks you to check by phone. Breakfast is served daily until 11:30. There is no online booking; you can reach the café by phone.
On Sundays from 09:00 to 18:00. Hours may differ on public holidays, and the café recommends checking by phone.
Daily until 11:30.
Since 1923. The year 1875 refers to the Diglas family's start in Viennese gastronomy, not to the café.
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