Villon

· Iconic Villon is the Habsburg-era cellar bar beneath Habsburgergasse, four floors down through a stone staircase that predates the Ringstraße. The list — close to a thousand bottles, with serious depth on Wachau and Kamptal verticals and an unfashionably defended Bordeaux section — is run by sommelier Markus Hofer with old-school precision.

By-the-glass is twelve options, leaning toward older Austrian whites you cannot drink elsewhere by the glass. The kitchen, two floors above, sends down short plates: cured beef, smoked char, an excellent Tafelspitz consommé.

The room itself is the draw: vaulted brick, candle-only lighting, twenty-four seats. Seventh because no other Vienna cellar room runs a programme this serious without the wine being upstaged by the architecture.

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