Although Vienna has a very unique (and high end) café culture, there’s something I miss about Canadian cafés that I’m always on the look out for. At home, cafés are extremely student and work-space friendly, with large tables that allow you to fit your laptop, textbooks, notebooks, etc. for the perfect productive study session. You can sit, enjoy your coffee and work for hours and hours without being disturbed or rushed out.

 

Luckily, I’ve been able to find two cafés close to the DeutschAkademie that possess that student café-feeling. The first is BlueOrange on Margaretenstraße 9, near the TU Wien. They’ve got great coffee and BAGELS. Maybe bagels aren’t something that most people around the world care about, but I know those Canadian and American students have been craving them.

The second café is called Phil, on Gumpendorfer Str. 10. It’s a bit farther of a walk from Karlsplatz but it’s really neat. It’s half coffee shop, half book store, and a cozy place to hang out and study your German!

Phil Bookstore

Studying @ BlueOrange