“ Excellent service and food. I always love to come back. Bought the English book Viennese cuisine ”

“ This was an awesome experience. Great service and classy. I highly recommend. We got the tafspitz of course and just got it for 1 to share. It was plenty for us. So good. Great value - I'd totally come back here. Thank you! ”

“ Came by on a trip to Vienna after seeing the tafelspitz featured. The restaurant is very nice and teeming with staff. Even at 9 or 10pm it was very crowded with most of the tables occupied. Service was very gruff but attentive and quick. Everything came out very quickly but we never felt rushed. The schnitzel was tasty and came with adequate lemon. It was great that it came with side sauces as well (including a very delicious horseradish applesauce). The tafelspitz came with great presentation and was a very healthy serving enough to split for two. Pricing was pretty expensive but not out of range of most restaurants in Vienna. ”

“ If I could score this 10 out of 5, I would. This was one of the dining experience of my life. The service was impressively attentive and fast. The staff and the manager are taking their role seriously. The outdoor sitting was very comfortable. They provided blankets. The food and the wine was amazing. One of my coworker from Germany told me that his parents will sometimes take a 4 hour train ride to go to this restaurant. ”

“ Out hotel recommended Plachutta for lunch one day, and I'm so glad they did. Probably the best meal I had in Vienna. I'd never heard of Tafelspitz, or this kind of meal, so it was fun to learn, as well as delicious. We sat outside on a beautiful day, and Plachutta is beautiful and elegant (the only drawback being getting dripped on by the mister machine). They have a little instruction manual (more fun), and our neighbor diner also described the process of the meal, starting with the beef broth soup (with such great pancake "noodle" slices!), then on to bone marrow on toast (eat with your fingers! the manual says), and culminating in the tender beef with root vegetables. The soup was absolutely delicious. If this was all in the meal I would have been satisfied. I'm not the biggest bone marrow fan, but I did enjoy this on the toast. The beef and vegetables was almost anticlimactic, but also very good. The beef was accompanied by some wonderful sides and garnishes, including apple/horseradish, a cream sauce, and a delicious creamed spinach. I'm not sure if I could have distinguished between all the different cuts of beef on the menu. I guess you need to do this a few times! No dessert or coffee for us this time. I'd love to go back. ”

“ Recommend to make reservation. We were lucky and got a table around 6pm. Don't risk it, particularly if you are short on time. This is a must in Vienna. Ambiance is a mix of local families and tourists, but this is not the typical touristy place. Service was fast, not too friendly but expedient. Place is crowded, and they gave us a table w/o reservation so will give them a pass on that. On to food. You will be tempted to go for Schnitzel and I will not judge. It is really good: tender, crispy, buttery. Go with potato salad or cucumber salad so you have something fresh in your palate to balance the Schnitzel. Now, locals share Tafelspitz and you should too. Do a bit of research and pick the meat that best suits you. Procedure : start with the soup, they will bring a big bowl to share and individual bowls for each person. They should serve you the first scoops. I had 'pancakes' (thin slices of thin bread) as a bed for the soup. Delicious! Then, go for the bone marrow. Yes, just do it please. I have eaten it since i was a kid. They do a good job here. Take the bone marrow out of the bowl and spread it on your bread. It is a perfect companion to the soup. The meat was a bit underwhelming, i tried the mint sauce and made it more interesting, with more texture. We had to skip dessert, as this was plenty! Excellent dinner for a cold winter night. It will get you satisfied, nurtured and ready for a nice walk in one of the Economist's most livable cities in the world. Go on enjoy! ”

“ It's rare that after all these years of eating around the world I encounter something truly novel to my palate. I can totally see why Tafelspitz was a favorite dish of Emperor Franz Josef, since it's delicious and has many different phases from the same pot. I think the first phase with that delicious broth was my favorite. It had the long simmered richness of beef pho, minus the Asian spices. Perhaps the best beef broth I've ever had. Instead of noodles, there were thin pancake slices that worked well. I also like the thinly sliced and tender veggies in the mix. The second phase was truly indulgent where you scoop out a marrow bone, spread a heaping portion of bone marrow on toast and then season with salt and pepper. Bone marrow as an appetizer is not new to me, but fishing the bone out of the soup that it had flavored was new and exciting. The final phase felt like prime rib dinner service, but with pot roast as the meat. I liked the presentation of fried potato shreds, blended spinach, apple horseradish sauce and creamy chives sauce. The meat chunks did indeed taste like their "boiled beef" name translation, so felt like common pot roast. But with memories of the previous two phases, it was still elevated in my mind. The place also felt kinda fancy with table clothes and formally dressed waiters. While we had it as a late lunch after a long day of tourist trekking, many other people seemed to be having fancy business lunches to impress their business guests. ”