The cluster
Neubau, seventh district
Jonas Reindl on Westbahnstraße, Kaffemik on Zollergasse, Kaffeemodul's tiny bar, Café Comet, Wolfgang Coffee. Creative industries and small shops around them.
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The city of the Kaffeehaus grew a second coffee culture beside the first: the roasters, the districts, the prices, and where to start.
Updated September 2026 · tracking 23 Vienna roasters and 144 coffees, live
Vienna has had a coffee culture for three hundred years, and it is on the country's heritage list: marble tables, a Melange on a silver tray, a glass of water, a newspaper on a stick and nobody hurrying you out. Specialty coffee arrived around 2010 and did not try to replace any of that. It set up next door.
The two cultures run in parallel. You go to Sperl or Demel for an afternoon and a strudel; you go to Jonas Reindl or Kaffeefabrik for a light-roast filter, a bag of beans and a conversation about a farm in Nicaragua. Johanna Wechselberger's coffee school trained the first baristas in 2006, CaffèCouture opened in 2010 with a menu of "coffee with milk" and "coffee without", the world barista final came to town in 2012, and the roasters followed: Kaffeefabrik, Coffee Pirates, Süssmund, Jonas Reindl.
Austria's competitors have since won world titles in roasting and brewing, and Vienna's roasters produced a run of national champions. The Vienna Coffee Festival in January is where the two cultures share a hall, and a Peruvian farmer's son runs one of the city's better-known roasteries.
Johanna Wechselberger founds the Vienna School of Coffee, and modern barista training arrives in Austria.
Georg Branny opens CaffèCouture in the first district with a two-line menu; Tobias Radinger opens Kaffeefabrik in Wieden.
People on Caffeine opens in a former funeral parlour in Alsergrund; Viennese coffeehouse culture joins Austria's national heritage inventory.
Coffee Pirates opens near the university with the roaster in the room; Kaffeemodul opens its tiny bar in Josefstadt; Vienna hosts the World Barista Championship.
Kaffeefabrik joins Roasters United, the European green-buying cooperative.
Nikolaus Hartmann, an architect, founds Süssmund; Philip Feyer founds Jonas Reindl, named after the tram stop at Schottentor.
Junior Vargas Otero of Gota wins the Austrian barista title.
Kaffemik in Neubau starts roasting its own coffee after years as a guest-roaster café; Felix Teiretzbacher of St. Pölten wins the World Coffee Roasting Championship.
Martin Wölfl wins the World Brewers Cup for Austria.
Jonas Reindl is the hub: direct trade with the same Nicaraguan farm since 2014, omni-roasts and dedicated profiles, a roastery café on Westbahnstraße and the original in the ninth. Süssmund roasts gently "according to origin and process", works directly with a Mexican cooperative, and shows its coffee in a showroom on Rauhensteingasse in the first district. Kaffeefabrik buys through the Roasters United cooperative and pours in small neighbourhood cafés. Coffee Pirates roasts organic lots on an exposed machine in a room the size of a Kaffeehaus, and sells yeast-fermented experiments online.
Vienna's specialty coffee follows the districts, and each district got a different kind of café.
The cluster
Jonas Reindl on Westbahnstraße, Kaffemik on Zollergasse, Kaffeemodul's tiny bar, Café Comet, Wolfgang Coffee. Creative industries and small shops around them.
The university corridor
Coffee Pirates with the roaster in the room, People on Caffeine in the old funeral parlour, Pelican, and Jonas Reindl's first café. Laptops welcome.
The historic centre
Süssmund's showroom, CaffèCouture, Fenster Café serving through a window. Small footprints between the grand Kaffeehäuser.
The southern corridor
Kaffeefabrik's original on Favoritenstraße, No Panic, and Gota on the edge of the fifteenth: neighbourhood counters for residents.
A Melange in the old houses, a flat white or a filter in the new ones. Vienna's specialty cafés have an unusually strong filter habit for a Central European capital: V60, AeroPress and Chemex on most menus beside the batch brewer. On the shelf, Colombia, Ethiopia and Brazil lead Vienna's listed origins, washed leads the processes with natural behind it, and Peru has a bigger presence here than almost anywhere thanks to Gota.
Light roasting is the rule among the third-wave roasters, in deliberate contrast to the dark blends of the traditional trade, and the experimental end is well stocked: anaerobic, thermal-shock and yeast-inoculated lots from Coffee Pirates and Gota, Gesha and Sidra at the top. Oat milk is on every specialty bar, which changes how the espresso blends are built. The live count stands at 11 decaf and 26 filter-friendly listings.
Vienna's ladder runs from Alt Wien's everyday blends to Peruvian Gesha in a small bag. These numbers come from every Vienna coffee currently listed with a price, not a sample we chose. The going rate today is €50 per kilogram, about €13 for a standard bag.
The ladder reads like this: espresso blends and washed Latin Americans around €47 per kilogram, washed East Africans and the first fermented lots from about €64 per kilogram, and the most expensive listing right now at €202 per kilogram. 122 coffees carry a price today. Most roasters run subscriptions and ship across Austria and Germany.
Based on the 122 Vienna coffees currently listed with a price.
Every January
The one weekend where the Kaffeehäuser and the specialty roasters share a floor, for the trade and the public alike.
Every year · rotating venues
Barista, brewers, roasting and latte art: the national rounds that sent Austrians to world titles in 2022 and 2024.
Every October
A symposium on the city's coffee heritage and what the third wave is doing to it.
Morning
Jonas Reindl's roastery café on Westbahnstraße, then Kaffemik on Zollergasse for whatever they roasted this week.
Midday
Coffee Pirates for a filter with the roaster running, then People on Caffeine round the corner.
Afternoon
Süssmund's showroom for a tasting, a Fensterccino from the window, and then a proper Melange at a Kaffeehaus.
Second morning
Kaffeefabrik on Favoritenstraße, then Gota for a Peruvian filter and a story about Cusco.
Daily Roast currently lists 23 verified roasters based in Vienna, with 144 coffees between them.
The live median across Vienna's listed coffees is €50 per kilogram, about €13 for a standard bag. A quarter sit at or below €47 per kilogram, and the most expensive lot listed right now works out at €202 per kilogram.
No, and it doesn't claim to be. The traditional houses serve dark-roast blends with milk and ceremony; the specialty cafés serve light roasts and filter. Locals use both for different afternoons.
Johanna Wechselberger, whom the trade calls the mother of Viennese coffee, trained the first generation. Georg Branny opened CaffèCouture. Tobias Radinger founded Kaffeefabrik and plugged Vienna into the European cooperative. Philip Feyer built Jonas Reindl. Nikolaus Hartmann left architecture for Süssmund and won the national brewers title twice; Norbert Rieberer joined him from finance. Junior Vargas Otero took Gota to the national title and the world semi-finals. And Felix Teiretzbacher and Martin Wölfl brought Austria world titles in roasting and brewing.
11 of 23 listed
The other tradition
Sperl, Demel, Central: a Melange, a strudel and an afternoon. Not specialty, and not trying to be. Go anyway.
17 with mapped locations
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With a coffee school in 2006 and a handful of cafés in 2010: CaffèCouture in the first district and Kaffeefabrik in Wieden. The world barista final in 2012 brought the trade to town, and the roasters followed in 2014.
Neubau for the cluster, Alsergrund for the university cafés, the first district for showrooms and windows, Wieden and Mariahilf for neighbourhood roasters.
In a Kaffeehaus, a Melange is espresso with steamed milk and foam, a Verlängerter a long black, a kleiner Brauner a small espresso with a jug of milk. In a specialty café, order as you would anywhere.
Kaffeerösterei Wien is the term the roasters use for themselves; Bohnen kaufen Wien finds beans. Kaffeehaus finds the traditional houses, which is why the roasters avoid it.
Most ship across Austria and Germany, some further. Terms change often, so Daily Roast doesn't restate them; every roaster's profile links straight to its own shop.
More than in most cities of its size: manual brewing is on most specialty menus. Vienna's listed coffees marked for filter brewing or for both methods currently number 26.
Yes. The live count of decaf coffees from Vienna roasters stands at 11.
The festival in January, when the two cultures meet, or October for the symposium. Between them, the Kaffeehäuser are open every day.