Coffee and a Viennese whirl

The cream of Vienna society gathers at its elegant coffee houses, says William Cook, of The Sunday Times

A coffee house,” wrote the Austrian author Alfred Polgar, “is a place for people who want to be alone, but need company to do it.”
Americans do not understand this. Their high-street cloned coffee outlets, full of hollow smiles and skyscraper lattes in paper cups, are, quite literally, all froth. But in Vienna, they have the Polgar principle down to a tee. Here, in the heart of what Donald Rumsfeld calls old Europe, the grand old continental kaffeehaus still thrives.

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