AI-made picture of the dish, not a house photo
What to buy
Our dish — the plate we'd order here firstHandsemmel
Kaisersemmel knotted by hand
Where it comes fromVienna's own
Early in the 1600s country bakers sold finer Semmeln in the city, and Viennese bakers were drawn by lot to compete. From 1772 every city baker could bake them; the name Kaisersemmel came in the early 1800s.
Sources: Wien Geschichte Wiki; BMLUK register no. 164; Peter Payer, stadt-forschung.at (2016).
At Szihn
Proved slowly on the bakery's own wheat poolish, a long-rested starter, and baked fresh each morning, for breakfast with butter.
From Szihn's own menu and pages, as we read them in October 2026.
Also in our bag
- A Mohnstriezerl, the braided poppy-seed roll, with a coffee at the counter
Szihn
Austrian · bakery and café · Liesing, Vienna
Breitenfurter Straße 354, 1230 Wien
Liesing's family bakery, still on the street where it began.
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