Best coffee in the world?

We arrived in Vienna a little coffee-starved as the espresso in the Czech Republic was not great. Lucky for us, Vienna has a reputation as being world-famous for its coffee, so we had high hopes of quenching our thirst. Before we even arrived in Vienna, Anya had already marked a dozen-or-so coffee shops on her map that looked well worth a visit.

On our first full day in Vienna, we took a tram tour around the city center, and sadly, Findlay developed a huge headache, which seemed like a migraine. We left the tram in search of some espresso to help ward off Findlay’s migraine. We happened to be just a couple blocks from one of the places Anya had marked off, called Fenster Café. “Fenster” means “window” in German, which is exactly what this place was: just a window down a little alleyway.

I wasn’t sure I was going to get anything, but then I saw someone in front of us leave the window with a waffle cone filled with coffee. I’d never seen such a thing! I had to try it, and boy was it delicious. The cone was double-lined with chocolate to help keep the coffee inside, and the espresso itself was truly incredible. By the time I had drunk the coffee down to the last swigs, the heat from the liquid had half-melted the chocolate in the cone, which left a delectable edible treat. Our minds were blown by how good this coffee was. We came back every morning while we were in Vienna, even though it was about a 2.5-mile roundtrip walk from our apartment (we only had the one cone-coffee that first time, after that it was Lattes for Anya and Flat Whites for me). Anya and I both went to bed giddy each night knowing what awaited us in the morning. They advertise themselves as serving the best coffee in the world, which can be kind of an obnoxious and cliché claim, but in this case I think they may actually be right!