Café Frauenhuber is on Himmelpfortgasse, a side street just off Kärntner Straße. It is a traditional Viennese coffee house serving Viennese cuisine and a lunch menu, run by the Binder family. The café bills itself as "Vienna's oldest coffee house", while wien.info more cautiously calls it "one of the oldest".
On October 28, 1824, Alois Hänisch moved his coffee house to Himmelpfortgasse. It has only been called Café Frauenhuber since 1891; before that it went by names including Kaffeehaus Herzog. The building was a place of music even earlier: on March 4, 1791, Mozart gave his last public performance as a pianist here, at what was then the establishment of the caterer Franz Jahn. An engraving by Salomon Kleiner from 1746 shows the building, and the original hangs in the café. The café was completely renovated in 2000.
According to the coffee menu from February 2026, a Wiener Melange (Vienna's milky coffee, similar to a cappuccino) costs €6.90, an Einspänner (black coffee topped with whipped cream) €7.20 and a kleiner Brauner (small espresso served with a dash of cream) €4.50. Sachertorte and the house slice cost €7.50 each, the Apfelstrudel €7.10. Breakfast is served from 08:00 to 12:00, on Sundays and public holidays from 10:00 to 13:00. The basic breakfast (Basis Frühstück) costs €8.90, the Frauenhuber breakfast with smoked salmon €17.60. On weekdays there is a lunch menu.
The café is open Monday to Saturday from 08:00 to 22:00, and on Sundays and public holidays from 10:00 to 20:00. You can reserve online for up to six people; larger groups should send an email. You can pay in cash or with Maestro, Mastercard and Visa. The café hosts readings, art openings and piano evenings, but no fixed dates are published online.
Take the U1 or U3 to Stephansplatz, or the U1 or U4 to Karlsplatz; from either station it is about 500 meters on foot. According to the café, the route from all stations is wheelchair accessible.
The café calls itself Vienna's oldest coffee house and dates itself to 1824, while wien.info describes it as one of the oldest. It has been called Frauenhuber since 1891.
Mozart gave his last public performance as a pianist in the building on March 4, 1791. At the time it housed the establishment of the caterer Franz Jahn; the coffee house only moved in in 1824.
On Sundays and public holidays from 10:00 to 20:00. Breakfast is served until 13:00 on those days.
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