Two of our favorite places in Austria are Salzburg and Vienna.
We were in Salzburg on December 5, so we got to experience Krampus. It was something.
We tended to eat at not-fancy places. I remember Zum Fidelen Affen restaurant, the Steigl and Die Weisse breweries. We needed a reservation at ZFA, not necessary at Steigl or Die Weisse then, but I don’t know about now (5 years later).
Vienna has so many museums. The Albertina art museum, the Belvedere (Klimt), the history museum. All worth the time.
Food was so good. We don’t have a problem with pork or veal, fwiw.
Demel for cake and coffee
Figlmüller for schnitzel. We went to Lugek (part of their family f restaurants), which wasn’t as rustic.
Zum Schwarzes Kameel (the black camel), traditional Austrian food, lovely setting.
Cake, cake, cake, coffee, and more cake, haha.
Austrian wine is as good as their beer.
It is so much easier now with on-line reservations. Getting through with my decades-old German was interesting to say the least. Because of our last name they expected us to speak the language, but were accommodating when we didn’t.