Over the years, I have formed my own “ideal” itinerary for exploring Salzburg. It starts and ends in the parking lot near the brewery "Augustiner" (Augustiner Bräustübl zu Mülln) www.augustinerbier.at.
From here, along the Müllner Steg footbridge (an excellent view of the city from the bridge), we cross to the other side of the river and head to the Mirabell Palace. Then we climb the Kapuzinerberg mountain to the monastery. A beautiful panorama opens from here, you just need not to miss the path and go to the observation deck overlooking the Hohensalzburg fortress. We go down the old Imbergstige lane and across the Stratbrücke bridge we head to the house where Mozart was born. Then we walk through the historical center. Be sure to visit the market on University Square, the monastery of St. Petra and the old cemetery attached to it, the Cathedral and shops on the Getreidegasse. You can take the funicular up to the fortress (the cost of the lift includes a visit to the interiors), but you need to finish the walk at the elevator that takes visitors to the Museum of Modern Art on Mönchsberg. The elevator shaft is punched right into the rock. The rise is paid - 2.20 euros.
From here you can enjoy the best panoramas of Salzburg.
Along the steep slope there is a hiking trail that will lead you to the upper entrance to the brewery from Augustinergasse. Please note that the establishment is open only from 15:00 on weekdays and from 14:30 on weekends and holidays. On weekdays, people come to the evening, but on weekends it is already open. During these hours, places are tense.
The front staircase leads to the beer palace! However, do not forget that this is a former monastery.
The first and main task is to find a free table. There are 4 halls in total: two smokers and two non-smokers, plus a huge beergarten in the summer, where tables stand outdoors under mighty lindens. In the winter version, it slightly looks like a cemetery.
Settle down and have fun! We leave the attendant to guard things and go for food. Food stalls. Take a tray and order whatever you want. Everything is laid out on paper plates and given wooden appliances - the fight for the environment and zero waste in action. The stalls are different, for every taste, there are meat, fish, and vegetarian, there are salads and pretzels, but meat snacks look the most appetizing.
The prices are low, however, and the food is simple - ribs with baked potatoes and sauerkraut– 7.90 euros. You should not expect frills from the local cuisine, the main thing here is beer and atmosphere.
There is also a stall where they sell something similar to chips. Brothers! Don't fall for the tricks, it's not them, it's a thinly sliced radish! This appetizer for beer does not suit us in any way.
Let's move on to the process of pouring beer. The spill point looks like this:
Take a mug on the shelf, guided by your desire - either a half-liter Gross, or a liter Mass (0.3 is not present). Rinse in the fountain, pay at the checkout according to the tariff and go to the spill point with a mug and a receipt. Beer is only one light variety, but it is poured directly from an oak barrel, and it's cool! This whole procedure can be avoided - the waiter will bring you beer, but it will be more expensive and not so interesting.
That's it, the process of getting food is over. Let's get to the meal!
Conclusion: the place is very interesting. It is interesting not by the taste of food and not even by the quality of beer, but by the democratic atmosphere. People come here to socialize and relax. Come with the whole family with children, with friends and colleagues. Here they celebrate birthdays, celebrate holidays, collect corporate parties. Everyone is equal before beer: old and young, boss and clerk.
PS 1: The exit to the parking lot is right below you - the circle is closed.
PS 2: In Austria, the allowed alcohol limit is 0.49 ppm, but I don't drink while driving.
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If you have already traveled to German-speaking countries, then you probably know that the cuisine in this part of the world is mostly simple, peasant. In cooking, meat, potatoes, sour cabbage, various herbs and gravies. Desserts are prepared using local fruits - plums, apples, apricots. In addition to typical Austrian dishes such as schnitzel, sausages or goulash, Salzburg has its own special delicacies that no tourist can resist.
How to buy a quick snack bun with ham(Leberkäsesemmel). It is extremely popular among locals of all ages and professions and is sold with mustard – sweet or spicy.
As a snack in local restaurants, you can taste assorted from cheeses jerky, sausages and pickles. Such a dish is served on a peasant wooden board with brown bread. Great for beer.
Most soups are puree soups- from broccoli, pumpkin, potatoes, as well as onions and garlic. Sometimes such a soup is served in a bread roll, which is eaten quite calmly with the soup. Traditional is pancake soup (fritattensuppe). Pancakes are cut into strips and added to a clear broth with herbs.
For the second fall, be sure to try game - roast from deer, roe deer or wild duck. Often this dish is served with red cabbage salad or baked apples.
Not a very common side dish are knodels- balls of bread crumb, they are served with many meat dishes instead of bread. Spices, pieces of lard, spinach or even mushrooms are often added to these balls.
Fish is also worth trying, but it should be from local lakes - the Royal Lake (Königessee) or the Salzkammergut region. This trout or saibling(Saibling), and zaibling is a fish that does not even have an equivalent in Russian, since it is found only in alpine lakes.
Foto von Salzkammergut Tourismus © STMG
A typical Austrian and Bavarian dish is pork stew(Schweinsbraten), but the knuckle in Salzburg is more difficult to find - after all, this dish is more typical for Bavaria.
Speaking of varieties beer, then Stiegl, Augustiener and Die Weiße are brewed in Salzburg, and there are restaurants with the same name with traditional cuisine at the breweries. Beer, by the way, as in Bavaria, it is customary to drink with a snack pretzel- unleavened pretzel with coarse salt.
Foto von Tourismus Salzburg
Vegetarians in Austria have a hard time, usually the choice of dishes without meat is not so great. You can try, for example, cheese casserole(Käsespätzle). These are small dumplings baked with cheese and fried onions. Or knodel in mushroom sauce which is available almost everywhere.
Desserts. Walking through the streets, you will see more than one advertisement for the Salzburg nockerl. This is a dish of egg whites with sugar, baked in the oven, once sung by poets. The dish is very high-calorie, one serving is enough for two. Served with hot jam.
Many cities in Austria have Michelin starred restaurants, the chefs are just happy to live here and make sausage, schnapps and strudel. The city of Salzburg is one of the main tourist centers and the fourth largest city in the country.
Austrians are proud of their country. After all, Austria was an empire. Hungary, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Romania - the Austrians took all the best from these countries. Salzburg joined the Habsburg Empire rather late. The city, together with the region that surrounds it, was an independent state until 1816.
It was ruled by gloomy Roman Catholic princes. They skillfully avoided the Thirty Years' War, which devastated northern Europe more than World War II. They spent the state income - mostly from the salt mines that give the city its name - on gilded baroque architecture, court music and, even more piquantly, on mistresses. Mirabell Castle, in whose gardens The Sound of Music was filmed, was built specifically for Salome Alt, the mistress of Prince Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Reitenau, with whom she had children.
Despite the late division of Austria, Salzburg is now considered the culinary capital of the world. There are more Michelin stars and Gomillo hats here than anywhere else in Europe. famous restaurants Esszimmer , Riedenburg and Pfefferschiff deserve credit for their modern dishes french cuisine.
Salzburg has many places to delight those who travel through Austria in the culinary delights.
It is a city built according to the decrees of the prince-archbishops, with bizarre patterns in architecture as white as meringue, unimaginably beautiful rosettes. It seems as if it was designed by an art confectioner, as if the architects secretly sought to create not churches, but cakes.
In the mirror shine of the cafe Tomaselli
where Mozart once made hot chocolate, waiters dressed in antique shirts serve pot-bellied glasses of einsp?nner- strong black coffee with whipped cream - on marble tables. Behind them sit the regulars, whose mink-trimmed coats hang on the walnut-panelled walls like hunting trophies.
Waitresses in white aprons, dancing a foxtrot on polished parquet floors, carry trays of sweets: swollen schlotfeger- roll with chocolate icing and cream inside, sticky bits salzburger nockerl, the white spicy soufflé invented by Salome Alt, and, of course, the delicate layered strudel.
Strudel is one of Austria's most famous culinary gifts to the world.
In fact, he comes from Hungary. Local residents have mastered the production thin dough, which is used in baklava by their unfriendly neighbors, the Turks, and made such a delicious fruit pie.
The best strudel, according to many, is filled with cool cottage cheese and Morello cherry puree.
Japanese tourists crowd Caf? Konditorei F?rst . The most famous treat in Salzburg is created here - Mozartkugel- a golf ball-sized chocolate ball filled with pistachio marzipan and nougat, wrapped with a portrait of the great musician.
It was invented in 1890.
The pleasant smell of cinnamon and caramelized sugar comes from the stalls selling kaiserschmarrn, bombardino and warm eggnog diluted with rum.
The local market sprawls along a curved, cobbled street around University Square. Vegetarian stalls laden with Jerusalem artichokes and artichokes, giant white horseradish, cigar-shaped kipfler potatoes. Everything is decorated so richly, as if invented by architects from the 17th century.
Nearby stalls sell fat farm ducks, smoked golden trout from the Salzach River, reindeer meat, dried sausage and kletzenbrot- hearty, dark, confectionery bread with fruit, more like a cake.
Just around the corner, close to the Goldener Hirsch hotel, another famous Salzburg restaurant - Balkan Grill . It's in a covered alley between fine shops selling Italian wool blazers, Swiss timepieces with huge dials, amber necklaces and finely crafted lingerie with handmade Belgian lace. The line that represents the perfect division of Salzburg society, from wealthy pensioners in cashmere to workers in splattered overalls, pass right here.
In the restaurant, a wiry man in a worn white apron cooks sausages, buns, toast and toppings in the old-fashioned electric fryer in the Bosnian tradition. This is an imported delicacy from the Balkan provinces, as the name implies. Beef sausage served in a long bun with onions, finely chopped parsley and curry, this spicy snack, especially for beer, and probably not the most appropriate treat on a first date.
In an attempt to find a dish without onions, head up the Mönchsberg mountain. This is one of the three mountains from which you can view Salzburg. Nearby you will find a cozy terrace next to the Museum of Modern Art. From here, it is easy to understand why in the era of romanticism, the location of Salzburg was compared with Naples and Istanbul. The river turns lazily through meadows where cattle graze towards rocky mountains covered with snow, while the spiers and domes of the city sparkle in the sunlight.
Life in Austria is sedate, so it's not surprising that those who get tired of just walking can take the funicular and ride back to the city from the top of the Mönchsberg. The stop is located near Stiftsb?ckerei St. Peter, where dark, porous bread sourdoughs have been baked in a wood-fired oven since the 1100s.
It's time to try the incredible pumpkin soup, which smells so good on autumn days that you can even smell the leaves. For the second, we recommend steaming vegetable goulash with dumplings, pickled cucumbers and fried sausages in the shape of a crown.
Walk back along the Getreidegasse, past shops with signs saying they serve glög and gingerbread. At the end is Carpe Diem Finest Fingerfood , modern bar-restaurant. It is the brainchild of Dietrich Mateschitz, creator of the Red Bull energy drink and owner of the Red Bull Racing Formula 1 team. In recent years, he has revitalized the gastronomic life of the city, bringing glitz and glamour to the place.
In a futuristic restaurant Ikarus
in Hangar-7, where exhibition areas are located dedicated to the collection of shiny cars and Mateschitz aircraft, rock stars of the culinary world - Xavier Pellicer, Nuno Mendes, Bj?rn Frantz?n perform. Even before the advent of wasabi cream, sancho peppers and Asian pears, it was clear that, in addition to strudel and schnapps, food in Salzburg is a thermonuclear mixture from the world's culinary.
Guide to Salzburg
Where to live
Boutiquehotel am Dom
This venerable hotel in Altstadt was refurbished in 2009. Stone stairs and oak floors in a surprising combination with white leather, glass showers and pop art portraits of local celebrities
Double room from € 122
Arthotel Blaue Gans
The oldest hotel in Salzburg, serving travelers for over 660 years, combines contemporary design with smoked glass and corner furniture. A real historical building, a monument to the architects, which even has a basement with vaulted ceilings.
Double room from € 159
Hotel Goldener Hirsch
Salzburg hotel with the atmosphere of a Habsburg hunting lodge. Interiors and furniture - antiques, traditional carpets, amazing accessories handpicked by Countess Harriet Walderdorf - combine the grandeur of Mayerlinge with the splendor of Hollywood.
Double room from € 260
Where there is
RESTAURANTS
St Peter Stiftskeller
The oldest restaurant in Europe, opened in the first half of the 9th century. Excellent venison stew and Salzburger knockerl, to the accompaniment of a string quartet playing Mozart.
About €75 for two
Herzl
The coziest and intimate of the two restaurants in the hotel Goldener Hirsch
. It serves local specialties, broth with liver dumplings, fried sausage with sauerkraut, and strudel with cherries, cream and cheese.
Around €40 for two
Brunnauer im Store
The building is made of glass on steel supports, similar to the lair of the villain from the film adaptation of James Bond. Here you will be offered authentic Austrian cuisine in the performance of haute cuisine. Alpine set: veal medallion with truffle pasta and caviar noodles.
About € 90 for two
Krimpelstätter
A very old diner on the tourist path. Seasonal local specialties are served, such as spinach and brown butter dumplings, game sausages, and beef from the unique Pinzgauer breed.
Around €35 for two
CAFE AND CONFECTIONERIES
Tomaselli
The oldest café in Salzburg, visited by Mozart and Haydne along with their patrons. About a dozen different coffees served in rooms that are both large, rich and cozy. This is the extraordinary charm of the German-speaking countries.
Konditorei F?rst
Bäckerei Holztrattnr
Over 40 types of bread baked right in this tiny bakery. A good choice cakes, including topfengolatschen stuffed with cottage cheese and plum.
Konditorei Ratzka
Considered the best patisserie in Austria: raspberry, cherry and marzipan cakes are especially good. There are only four tables here, but the views from the benches on the banks of the Salzach are fantastic.
BARS AND BEERHOUSES
Augustiner Br?ust?bl
Cave-like cellars under the old monastery, where one sort of the most delicious beer is served in mugs. Arcades of stalls provide food and snacks, including giant pretzels. This is the largest pub in Austria!
Threesixty
The glass building houses a cocktail bar under the suspended roof Hangar-7 of the Red Bull complex. Try an Aperol-and-Sekt syringe while looking at the museum's aircraft fleet.
Stieglkeller
Several huge beer houses are located right in the rock under the Hohensalzburg fortress, with terraces overlooking the city. Closed in winter.
Steinterrasse
Trendy hotel rooftop bar Stein, overlooking the Old Town. The perfect place for an orange glitch on a cool evening.
And its Altstadt (German: Salzburg's Altstadt - Old Town) attract travelers from all over the world and almost all year round.
It is not surprising, the main "highlights" of Salzburg are the architecture of the city in the Baroque style, nearby are the best ski resorts in Austria, interesting places (see "") and, of course, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's native penates, which have become a museum.
In the summer, in July and August, people come to the city to visit the Salzburg Classical Music Festival. And to make your stay more enjoyable, Travel Assistant decided to bring to your attention a list of the best restaurants in Salzburg. But such a title is by no means due to the price.
Choice good restaurants offering quality service and delicious cuisine in Salzburg is quite extensive. There are sushi restaurants and American eateries, there is a classic Italian restaurant, an institution offering snacks from Thailand, and even the exotic cuisine of Louisiana settlers () - Cajun (Fr. - cadienne).
The list of restaurants is based on generalized advice and recommendations from local residents, celebrities and business people who have been to these establishments and formed a good opinion about them. You will find a variety of proposals - from small and cozy restaurants for a quiet family dinner to classy, Michelin-starred haute cuisine.
Salzburg restaurants are a great place for a leisurely relaxing holiday, for a business dinner, and for a romantic meeting. You just need to choose the right one. Now it's up to you!
The best restaurants in Salzburg
Restaurant Blaue Gans
- Style: Austrian cuisine
- Address: Getreidegasse 41, 5020 Salzburg, Austria Tel. +43 662 842 49 10
- Location: Salzburg Old Town (Salzburg Altstadt)
- Prices: from 11 to 26 euros
Restaurant Stiftskeller St. Peter (St. Peter's Refuge)
- Style: Austrian cuisine
- Address: Sankt-Peter-Bezirk 1 , 5020 Salzburg, Austria Tel. +43 662 83 40 17
- Location: Salzburg Old Town (Altstadt)
- Prices: from 12 to 22 euros
Cafe Tomaselli
- Style: Austrian cuisine
- Address: Alter Markt 9 , 5020 Salzburg, Austria Tel. +43 662 842 49 10
- Location: Salzburg Old Town (Altstadt)
- Prices: from 13 to 26 euros
- Opening hours: Monday-Saturday 7.00-20.00, Sunday 8.00-20.00.
Restaurant Hoagascht
- Style: Organic chill-out diner (calm atmosphere)
- Address: Hermann Oberreiter, A 5542 Flachau 14, Salzburg, Tel. +43 6457/32490
- Location: Flachau
- Opening hours: 11.00-14.00 and from 17.30; on Tuesdays and Wednesdays - 11.00-14.00; Thursday - from 17.00.
Restaurant Goldener Hirsch
- Style: royal dinners
- Address: Getreidegasse 37, 5020 Salzburg, Austria Tel. +43 662 80 84 0
- Location: Salzburg Altstadt
- Prices: from 11 to 35 euros.
Restaurant Ikarus
- Type: international cuisine
- Address: Wilhelm-Spazier-Strasse 7A , 5020 Salzburg, Austria Tel. +43 6457/32490.
- Location: Wals
- Price: from 95 to 106 euros.
- Opening hours: 12.00-14.00 - breakfast, lunch; 19.00-22.00 - dinner
Prosecco Restaurant
- Style: mediterranean cuisine
- Address: Nonntaler Hauptstrasse 55, 5020 Salzburg, Austria Tel. +43 662 83 40 17
- Location: Nonntal
- Prices: from 11 to 25 euros
There are many restaurants in Salzburg, almost 500. For the most part, these are European and Italian cuisine. Of course, you can’t tell about everyone, but here are the top five places in Salzburg where you can eat. I am not saying that these are the most luxurious and expensive restaurants. By no means! Top 5 best places to have lunch or dinner in Salzburg for those who want to learn more about the culture of Austria and its history.
1. Afro Cafe(Bürgerspitalplatz 5) 
This "African cafe" has always been and will always be at the top of the lists of restaurants recommended to visit in Salzburg. This is one of the few places in the city monopolized by the owner of Red Bull (you do know that it was first launched in Austria?). Cafe Restaurant, located at the foot of the Münchsberg, invites guests to enjoy famous African teas served in cast iron teapots with a special timer to make sure your rooibos is already brewed. The food in this restaurant is simply incredible, exotic, and the portions are huge! Everything from gazelle meat and ostrich burgers to almond soup to spicy ribs and afro salad consisting of chicken, bacon, cashew nuts and sun-dried tomatoes. Very tasty and unusual! However, what really makes this cafe unusual and memorable is its decor. With poisonous pink walls and subdued orange lighting, a cafe decorated with everything that seems to throw the sea on the sand - and everything in the hall is decorated like that, from chandeliers to walls and ceiling. And, of course, there was a cafe without a couple of palm trees inside. In short, this cafe is definitely not to be missed. Also, it is worth noting that the cafe regularly hosts a variety of cultural events, such as jazz concerts and African evenings. You can have breakfast in a cafe for about 10-13 euros (combo breakfasts are served until 12 noon), lunches are served here from 11:30 to 14:00 (you can meet € 7-8), exotic dishes cost from € 4 , alcoholic and non-alcoholic fruit cocktails - from € 3.50 to € 8.50, a bottle of wine is about € 28, and a glass is around € 4. In general, prices are tolerable.
Schedule: Monday-Saturday 09:00 - 00:00
2. christmas market 
These markets operate from the third week of November until December 26th. And this time is the best time to visit the town. Follow Getreidegasse to Residenzplatz, which will greet you with the most wonderful sights and flavors of Salzburg's Weinachtsmarkt (Christmas market). After shopping in numerous shops, go for a bite to eat. For starters, order the bosna - it's a must! Bosna (sometimes also called "bosner") is a spicy a traditional dish an Austrian cuisine said to have originated in Salzburg or Linz and is now popular throughout western Austria and southern Bavaria. 
Bosna is a hot dog with sausage and onions, very spicy German mustard and curry (or ketchup, or maybe all together). Such a dish should be accompanied by jacket potatoes with fillings like bacon with a very garlic sauce. And finally, order the Kaiserschmarrn pudding. 
The name of the dish is translated as "imperial mishmash" or "imperial omelet". Basically, they are thick pancakes stuffed with nuts, raisins and hot chocolate sauce. Actually, ordinary pancakes, but delicious! Wash it all down with a hot mug of mulled wine. These are the real Christmas treats that you can order in any market shop.
3."Cafe Furst" 
Here is the most authentic traditional Austrian coffee shop. Founded in 1884 small cafe already "spread" around the city in four copies. You will immediately recognize these cafes by the long glass protruding hall full of small interesting tasty treats. self made, like chocolate truffles, the most famous of which are Mozartkugels (Mozartkugels) - these are dark chocolate candies with marzipan filling, wrapped in silver foil with a portrait of the great composer. 
It's really very tasty and you can buy these candies anywhere in Austria, but no other shop makes them as tasty as Cafe Fürst. And also try confectionery, For example, Apple strudel and hot chocolate, both with about whipped cream. Well, just yummy!
Addresses: Brodgasse 13, Mirabellplatz 5, Getreidegasse 47, Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse 1 (almost all are nearby).
4. "Stern Brau" 
In order to get to know the taste of true hearty Austrian food, you can go to one of the pubs with its own brewery, where you can enjoy delicious meals and beer. For example, the Stern Bräu restaurant, located next to the river on the main shopping street Getreidegasse. Here you can try National dishes such as goulash, roast pork with dumplings (boiled pastry or potatoes) and sauerkraut schnitzel, as well as delicious desserts, such as cottage cheese dumplings with apricots, and Salzburg nockerl, an unusual pudding with three slides of soufflé, which symbolize the three hills in the city. 
The beer is excellent and the menu is extensive and the staff dressed in traditional Austrian attire all add up to a great atmosphere for a great lunch or dinner. After dinner, you can sit at the bar and drink delicious cocktails - they are especially good at pina colada here.
The address: Griesgasse 23-25
5.Hotel Sacher 
In Austria there are two Hotel Sacher: one in the capital, Vienna, the other is located on the banks of the Salzach river in Salzburg. These hotels are very expensive, rooms there sometimes cost up to € 2500 per night, and this is a hotel for members of the royal family, aristocracy and celebrities. Well, for those who cannot afford to check into such a luxurious hotel, we can advise you to look into the hotel cafe. Here they prepare amazing hot chocolate and the famous Sacher cake - chocolate biscuit cake with apricot confiture, covered with chocolate icing. 
I really liked this cake! So juicy, moist, delicious, just impossible to resist! Even the hotel was named after him :)
The address: Schwarzstrasse 5-7
These are the wonderful cafes and restaurants I would recommend you visit in Salzburg!
