Austria Travel Guide

Cafés
Hofcafé Edegger Tax
Hofgasse 8.

Venerable Konditorei whose origins are said to go back to the sixteenth century, selling a range of own-brand chocolates and fancy biscuits. The attached sit-down café is the favoured refuge of the city's more sedate citizens. Not cheap.

Kaiserhof
Kaiserfeldgasse 1.

Another long-established upmarket café, dripping with fin-de-siècle atmosphere. The nearest thing that Graz has to the classic Viennese coffeehouse.

Operncafé
Opernring 22.

Popular city-centre café, mixing old-fashioned elegance with modernist decor. Attracts a mixed, young and old, crowd during the day, plus a smattering of affluent posers at night.

Promenade
Erzherzog-Johann-Allee.

Neoclassical pavilion in the Stadtpark with an attractive, high-tech interior. Good range of lunches and snacks, including the typically Styrian Kürbiscremesuppe (cream of pumpkin soup). Usually open till after midnight.

Strehly
Sporgasse 12.

A Kaffee-Konditorei serving excellent sweets and cakes. A large outdoor seating area makes it popular with city-centre shoppers.

Tramezzini
Sporgasse 2.

Simple daytime coffee bar/night-time wine bar, with a tempting range of dainty sandwiches and filling baguettes – one of a cluster in the Sporgasse.