Best Vienna Chocolate Shops for Edible Souvenirs from Austria’s Capital

Best Vienna Chocolate Shops for Edible Souvenirs from Austria's Capital. Vienna Chocolates, Austria. Copyright © 2023 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

The best Vienna chocolate shops range from Demel, the former royal court confectioner, loved by Viennese for its decadent chocolates as much as its Sachertorte to Austria’s more innovative, smaller, boutique chocolatiers, such as Tiroler Edl, available at enormous gourmet emporium of Julius Meinl. Vienna’s chocolate history is long and rich and the Austrian capital produces some of … Read more

Vintage Vienna

Vintage Vienna – A guide to our favourite vintage shops in Vienna. Copyright © 2023 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

In the streets surrounding our apartment in the Fifth District in Vienna, and across the Linke Wienzeile, the street that runs parallel to the Naschmarkt, in the neighbouring Sixth District, there are literally dozens of vintage clothes, design, and furniture shops. This part of Vienna is retro heaven if you’re a lover of all things … Read more

European Winter Treat in Vienna: Fresh Black Winter Truffles

Fresh Black Winter Truffles, Vienna, Austria. Copyright © 2023 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Ever since I first tried truffles in a restaurant in Zurich, I get excited when the Northern Hemisphere winter comes around and I can look forward to fresh black winter truffles. Many years ago, when I worked in publishing in Sydney, my right-hand-man had a rather tempestuous relationship with his girlfriend who was head chef for … Read more

Zell am See Take-Homes: Liquid Souvenirs

Almdudler, Jagatee, Jägermeister, Zell am See, Austria. Zell am See Take-Homes: Liquid Souvenirs. Copyright 2014 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

When we mainly stayed in hotels when we travelled we rarely went to supermarkets. Perhaps just to pick up bottles of water and some cold beers, maybe some snacks. But hotels became increasingly strict about what you could take into rooms, many installing mini-bars with sensors so that the moment you shifted something to clear space … Read more

Budapest Take-Homes: Recycled Retro-Cool Keepsakes

Budapest Take-Homes: Recycled Retro-Cool Keepsakes. Budapest, Hungary. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

It’s rare that I devote an edition of Take-Homes to one shop. In the eleven months of our grand tour, I’ve done it just three times before, in Ceret (La Boheme, a shop keeping traditional Catalan fabric alive), Bali (Threads of Life, a fair-trade textiles and crafts co-op), and San Miguel de Allende (Ave Maria, … Read more