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The Hotel Sacher is a grand old property in Vienna\u2019s first district. The ground floor caf\u00e9 has marble topped tables and red upholstery and the wait-staff are attired in black with white aprons. There\u2019s a conservatory that faces the street and in the summer time, it\u2019s transformed into open air seating. The neighborhood is amazing; the Hotel is right across the street from the Opera House. The Hotel opened in 1875 \u2013 Grace Kelly stayed here, as did John F. Kennedy and Rudolph Nureyev.<\/p>\n
<\/a> The Original Sachertorte<\/p>\n The Hotel Sacher is a gorgeous slice of Viennese opulence and sure, if it\u2019s your first trip to Vienna, you should head to the caf\u00e9 for a Sachertorte, the property\u2019s namesake cake. Odds are good you\u2019ll share the salon with a busload of Japanese or German tourists, but whatever, the Sacher is a Vienna institution.<\/p>\n Unsurprisingly, there\u2019s a litigious back-story behind the Sacher\u2019s cake. Franz Sacher is said to have invented the cake while working as an apprentice in Prince Metternich\u2019s Vienna palace. Like some sort of pastry prodigy, he saved the day when the head chef fell ill. He passed the secret of the Sachertorte on to his son, Eduard, who served as an apprentice at the Demel, one of Vienna\u2019s top notch bakeries.<\/p>\n <\/a> Pastry Case at Cafe Demel, Vienna<\/p>\n Then, things got messy. The Demel claims that Eduard sold the rights to the Sachertorte. The bickering started in 1938 when the Hotel Sacher had the nerve to sell the cake under the name \u201cThe Original Sachertorte.\u201d No dice, said the Demel, we own the original version. The argument went on for decades, and finally, in the 1960s, the Demel and the Sacher settled. The Hotel Sacher gets to call their cake “The Original Sachertorte” while the Demel gets to top its cake with a chocolate seal bearing Eduard\u2019s name.<\/p>\n The truth is that both places make a stellar, if somewhat pricy, Sachertorte. Like the Sacher, the Demel has lovely rooms in which to eat cake; there are fancy chandeliers and French windows and formally dressed wait staff and a glorious pastry case made of polished wood with brass trim. And the cake itself is an Austrian classic, a dense chocolate layer cake spread with apricot jam and wrapped in dark chocolate icing.<\/p>\n Leave it to the litigious bakers of Austrian history to decide which cake is the \u201coriginal.\u201d You should order Sachertorte as many times and in as many cafes as you like and decide for yourself which one is the best.<\/p>\n All images via Wikimedia (Creative Commons)<\/span><\/p>\n The post Austria in 6 Cakes: The Sachertorte Saga<\/a> appeared first on Gadling<\/a>.<\/p>\n
![<\/a> The Original Sachertorte<\/p>\nThe Hotel Sacher is a gorgeous slice of Viennese opulence and sure, if it\u2019s your first trip to Vienna, you should head to the caf\u00e9 for a Sachertorte, the property\u2019s namesake cake. Odds are good you\u2019ll share the salon with a busload of Japanese or German tourists, but whatever, the Sacher is a Vienna institution.<\/p>\nUnsurprisingly, there\u2019s a litigious back-story behind the Sacher\u2019s cake. Franz Sacher is said to have invented the cake while working as an apprentice in Prince Metternich\u2019s Vienna palace. Like some sort of pastry prodigy, he saved the day when the head chef fell ill. He passed the secret of the Sachertorte on to his son, Eduard, who served as an apprentice at the Demel, one of Vienna\u2019s top notch bakeries.<\/p>\n<\/a> Pastry Case at Cafe Demel, Vienna<\/p>\nThen, things got messy. The Demel claims that Eduard sold the rights to the Sachertorte. The bickering started in 1938 when the Hotel Sacher had the nerve to sell the cake under the name \u201cThe Original Sachertorte.\u201d No dice, said the Demel, we own the original version. The argument went on for decades, and finally, in the 1960s, the Demel and the Sacher settled. The Hotel Sacher gets to call their cake “The Original Sachertorte” while the Demel gets to top its cake with a chocolate seal bearing Eduard\u2019s name.<\/p>\nThe truth is that both places make a stellar, if somewhat pricy, Sachertorte. Like the Sacher, the Demel has lovely rooms in which to eat cake; there are fancy chandeliers and French windows and formally dressed wait staff and a glorious pastry case made of polished wood with brass trim. And the cake itself is an Austrian classic, a dense chocolate layer cake spread with apricot jam and wrapped in dark chocolate icing.<\/p>\nLeave it to the litigious bakers of Austrian history to decide which cake is the \u201coriginal.\u201d You should order Sachertorte as many times and in as many cafes as you like and decide for yourself which one is the best.<\/p>\nAll images via Wikimedia (Creative Commons)<\/span><\/p>\nThe post Austria in 6 Cakes: The Sachertorte Saga<\/a> appeared first on Gadling<\/a>.<\/p>\nAustria in 6 Cakes: The Sachertorte Saga<\/a>\nSource: Gadling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"{$excerpt:n} The Hotel Sacher is a grand old property in Vienna\u2019s first district. The ground floor caf\u00e9 has marble topped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-18986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hotel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizzair.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizzair.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizzair.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizzair.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizzair.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wizzair.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18987,"href":"https:\/\/wizzair.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18986\/revisions\/18987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizzair.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizzair.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizzair.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/gadling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/sacher.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a> Pastry Case at Cafe Demel, Vienna<\/p>\nThen, things got messy. The Demel claims that Eduard sold the rights to the Sachertorte. The bickering started in 1938 when the Hotel Sacher had the nerve to sell the cake under the name \u201cThe Original Sachertorte.\u201d No dice, said the Demel, we own the original version. The argument went on for decades, and finally, in the 1960s, the Demel and the Sacher settled. The Hotel Sacher gets to call their cake “The Original Sachertorte” while the Demel gets to top its cake with a chocolate seal bearing Eduard\u2019s name.<\/p>\nThe truth is that both places make a stellar, if somewhat pricy, Sachertorte. Like the Sacher, the Demel has lovely rooms in which to eat cake; there are fancy chandeliers and French windows and formally dressed wait staff and a glorious pastry case made of polished wood with brass trim. And the cake itself is an Austrian classic, a dense chocolate layer cake spread with apricot jam and wrapped in dark chocolate icing.<\/p>\nLeave it to the litigious bakers of Austrian history to decide which cake is the \u201coriginal.\u201d You should order Sachertorte as many times and in as many cafes as you like and decide for yourself which one is the best.<\/p>\nAll images via Wikimedia (Creative Commons)<\/span><\/p>\nThe post Austria in 6 Cakes: The Sachertorte Saga<\/a> appeared first on Gadling<\/a>.<\/p>\nAustria in 6 Cakes: The Sachertorte Saga<\/a>\nSource: Gadling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"{$excerpt:n} The Hotel Sacher is a grand old property in Vienna\u2019s first district. The ground floor caf\u00e9 has marble topped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-18986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hotel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizzair.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizzair.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizzair.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizzair.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizzair.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wizzair.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18987,"href":"https:\/\/wizzair.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18986\/revisions\/18987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizzair.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizzair.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizzair.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/gadling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Cafe_Demel_IMG_7610.jpg\"){kind=link}