AUSTRIAN CUISINE. 505 



pretty little village of Hietzing, are the two cele- 

 brated suburban restaurants of Vienna, much 

 frequented by the upper ten thousand, Dommayer's 

 Casino, where Schroder's band plays twice a week, 

 and Schwender's Park {Die neue Welt). In both 

 places the cuisine is excellent and the wines much 

 above par. 



Austria is famous for les agremens de la vie ; and 

 without being gourmands, the Viennese have an 

 instinctive skill in the art of good living, their 

 cuisine not being surpassed even by that of Paris. 

 There are at least a dozen places in and about 

 Vienna where one is sure of getting a good dinner 

 at a comparatively moderate price. The establish- 

 ments my friend (Major Massey, late 60th Rifles) 

 and I chiefly patronised were those of Braying and 

 Mobus in the Graben, Prevot's in Herrn Gasse, 

 Streitberger's in Backer Strasse, Schneck's in Peter's 

 Platz, or the Hietzing Casino ; and we found we 

 got a better dinner at a more moderate figure than 

 we could get either at "the Munsch " (where we 

 were staying), or " the Erzherzog Karl," the two 

 swell hotels of Vienna. 



