Viennese coffee specialities such as Einspänner (“one-horse carriage”: black coffee with a lot of whipped cream), Schale Gold (“bowl of gold”: coffee with cream, resulting in a golden color), Brauner mit Schlag (“a brown one with whipped cream”: coffee with cream and extra whipped cream). The Viennese coffee house is an old institution: it has recently turned 275 years old. Dear, good old Viennese coffee house, you deserve to be praised! Austrians would not want to miss the coffee house in their lives; it is part of their history. Indeed, it has made history itself. There is not much you cannot do in a Viennese coffee house: you can read a newspaper… play carom billiards or cards… whatever you feel up to. Whatever your liking or wallet’s size is, you will find the right coffee house to suit you. There are tiny cafés with only three of four tables where the barista and the waiter is the same person. There are huge glistening cafes on the Ringstraße where the waiters are as elegantly dressed as barons used to be. And there are cafés where people usually drink fruit juices, and not coffee, because in Vienna even soccer players have their “local café”. The crowning glory of all Viennese coffee houses is the Nachtkaffee (night cafe). This is where young avant-garde artists; painters, actors and writers meet for nightly discussions. Even fashion is influenced by the Viennese coffee house. Good old Viennese coffee house! This is where agitated nervous systems are put in order again, where hours fly by as if in a dream... And if you want, you can even sleep in a coffee house...