Restaurants in Prague, Budapest, and Vienna

 Robert B. wrote:
 >
 >
 >I haven't been in Vienna for more than a few years, but I
 >remember a Czech restaurant in a central location (sorry - no
 >address) called something like Smutneys.  It was quite good, not
 >expensive and had Budweiser on draft.  NO, not that stuff from
 >St. Louis, but the real thing from Budvar. Seriously, there is a
 >real beer with that name, but it can't be imported to the states
 >because of copyright or trademark problem with Anheuser-Busch,
 >who own the rights to that name here. Austrian beer is good, but
 >not as good and Vienna is in the heart of wine country anyway.
 >

 Almost right! The restaurant is called "Smutny" and is located in
 "Elisabethstrasse 8" in the first district (Inner City). This is a typical
 Viennese, or if you want to, a typical old-fashioned monarchy restaurant
 with Czech and Austrian cuisine, which are very similar.

 Another hint from a Viennese: Look out for brew-pub restaurants! They serve
 very good and typical Austrian food together with a self-brewn excellent beer,
 e.g. Fischer-Brau and Nussdorfer-Brau (19th district), Wieden-Brau (4th district),
 Medl-Brau (14th district), Plutzer-Brau (7th district), etc.

 Concerning Austrian beer: There are some large breweries which produce very
 famous and good beers. Look out for (in alphabetical order):
 - Gosser
 - Hirter
 - Puntigamer
 - Reininghaus
 - Stiegl
 - Zipfer

 Probably one of the most exciting and original places in Vienna is the
 "Restaurant Figlmuller" in the first district near Stefansdom (St. Stephen's
 Cathedral). There you get the best, biggest and most original "Wiener Schnitzel".
 They make them out of veal and they serve them as large and almost as thin as
 a pizza. Right in the opposite of the restaurant is a wine-pub which is called
 "Vis-a-vis" which serves wines per glass which are among Austria's best wines.

 If you want to get further information you can e-mail directly.

 Have a nice stay in Vienna

                         Bernie

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 Mag. Bernulf Bruckner
 Institut fuer Kreditwirtschaft / Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien / Oesterreich
 Institute for Bank Administration / Vienna University for Economics and
 Business Administration / Austria
 Augasse 2 - 6 / 1090 Wien (Vienna) / Austria
 Tel.: +43 / 1 / 31336 / 4686   Fax: +43 / 1 / 3100580
 e-mail: [email removed]
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 From [email removed] Fri Oct 18 21:04:28 EDT 1996
 Article: 28281 of rec.food.restaurants