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Our dish — the plate we'd order here firstMilchrahmstrudel
Milk-cream strudel, served warm
Where it comes fromVienna's own
A handwritten Viennese cookbook of 1696, now in the city library, holds the oldest known strudel recipes, a milk-cream strudel among them. On fast days it was eaten as the main dish.
Sources: Wien Geschichte Wiki.
At L. Heiner
Made by hand in the house's own bakehouse in Simmering and brought warm to the café upstairs, as old Viennese homes ate it for a fast-day main course.
From L. Heiner's own menu and pages, as we read them in October 2026.
Also on our table
- A slice of Kardinalschnitte, the meringue-and-sponge slice, to take home
L. Heiner
Austrian · court confectioner and café · Innere Stadt, Vienna
Kärntner Straße 21–23, 1010 Wien
Vienna's oldest court confectioner, still in the founding family.
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