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Wonderful setting on the Tay - enjoy the spectacular sunsets from the end of the street or the pier. Real ale, rooms renovated in modern but cosy style. Good food. Excellent base for exploring Dundee and environs.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/11046 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/10940 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/10940 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/10942 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/10942 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/10941 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/10941 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/6977 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/6977 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/6951
The service is perfect Viennese tradition: efficient and quick (when the waiter isn’t on a cigarette break), skilled (the coffee is fine - rough and strong; the little trays fly around on improbable trajectories, but without spilling a drop) and with just that hint that you’re really bloody lucky to be getting served at all.

Have a grosser brauner: it'll set you up for the day (or night). The large mound of newspapers also meets the requirement of tradition, as does the classic Viennese breakfast of a couple of semmel and perhaps a boiled egg. Perfect for arriving in Vienna from a night train.

It’s opposite Westbahnhof train station, on the corner of Mariahilfer Straße and the Gürtel. When you come out of the main entrance of the station, head straight across the big road, crossing all the tramlines, going past the U-bahn hall, and then its just 10 yards to the right after you get across the last bit of pedestrian crossing. If you’re coming from the underground, there’s an exit right next to the door of the cafe; if memory serves, it’s labelled "innere mariahilferstr".]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/6951 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/6912 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/6912 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/6911
The coffee is also very respectable. Order a verlängerter (say "eee hett gairn an kafay, an ferlengerten bitte").

A wonderful Graz institution, hanging in there in an age of yuppification.

It’s on Mariahilferstrasse, which is the street parallel to the river and one block away from it, behind the Kunsthaus (blue bubble). Stroll across the blue pedestrian bridge by the "island" and head through the nearest gap between the houses - the pub is at the back corner of the house on the left.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/6911 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/6968
Great place to step off the world for a few hours, take a good long walk or just flop on the grass. Bring some food and an umbrella (and a street map and compass wouldn’t hurt) as you can get lost and wander round for hours. Grave styles range from the kitschly pious (squirly Bavarian crosses with little roofs) to thoroughly modern and non-religious sculptures.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/6968