Café Griensteidl

Café Griensteidl was a traditional Viennese café located at Michaelerplatz 2 across from St. Michael's Church and St. Michael's Gate at the Hofburg Palace in the Innere Stadt first district of Vienna, Austria.

[1][2] In January 1897, the original building was demolished during the course of the renovation of Michaelerplatz.

[3] During the early twentieth century, the café was frequented by many artists, musicians, and writers, including Hugo von Hofmannsthal,[4] Arthur Schnitzler, Arnold Schoenberg, Alexander Zemlinsky,[4] Hermann Bahr,[4] Friedrich Eckstein,[5] Rudolf Steiner, Hugo Wolf, and Stefan Zweig.

[1] In 1990, the café was reopened as Griensteidl again and became a popular location among the Viennese coffeehouse culture.

But the owners closed in June 2017, citing rising rents.