{"id":22870,"date":"2020-04-16T05:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T04:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=22870"},"modified":"2025-12-14T19:55:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T18:55:59","slug":"haasandhaas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/eatingdrinking\/cafespubsbars\/haasandhaas\/","title":{"rendered":"Haas&#038;Haas tea rooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"151\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/tea.jpg\" alt=\"Tea and book\" class=\"wp-image-22926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/tea.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/tea-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;ve had enough of cake and coffee in Vienna, you might like something completely different. Like, um, cake and tea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Haas&amp;Haas tea rooms follow the English tradition, but with an international flavour<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Huge, varied food menu in addition to (obviously) a lot of teas<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Afternoon teas a specialty of the house (make reservations)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adjacent tea shop a fine source of gifts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/eatingdrinking\/cafespubsbars\/coffee-houses\/\">Vienna coffee houses<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/stephansplatz\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"83491\">Stephansplatz square<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sandwiches and scones<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/haashaastearooms.jpg\" alt=\"Haas&amp;Haas tea rooms\" class=\"wp-image-48387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/haashaastearooms.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/haashaastearooms-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(An alternative and elegant beverage experience)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I told you we have a little place right in the centre of Vienna, just behind the cathedral, where you can drop in for a hot drink&#8230;you&#8217;d probably guess at one of the traditional coffee houses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tucked down below floor level in the shadow of the mighty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/stefansdom\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"294\">Stephansdom<\/a> is a little bastion of tea culture in a city awash with coffee: the staff in the Haas&amp;Haas tea rooms and tea salon hold back the tide of roasted Arabica beans with a scone in one hand and a cucumber sandwich in the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As such, this is not the kind of experience normally associated with Vienna. But the Haas&amp;Haas establishment has built an honourable tea niche for itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The closeness to the cathedral becomes evident inside. Sit against the wall facing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/stephansplatz\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"83491\">the square<\/a>, for example, and you look up directly at the great gothic giant. That particular room is relatively small and cosy with a low vaulted ceiling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t think of Haas&amp;Haas as a place for philosophical contemplation in dark corners in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/eatingdrinking\/coffee-house-experience\/\">coffee house tradition<\/a>, though.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/haasstephansplatz1900s.jpg\" alt=\"Stephansplatz 4 back in the early 1900s\" class=\"wp-image-58187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/haasstephansplatz1900s.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/haasstephansplatz1900s-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(The location around 1906, then home to the Deutsches Haus restaurant; from a postcard produced by Verlag Reinhold Entzmann &amp; Sohn; Wien Museum Inv.-Nr. 32217; excerpt reproduced with permission under the terms of the CC0 licence)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We relaxed in wicker-back chairs with cushions. Fresh flowers decorated the tables, and the whole room buzzed with conversation as guests enjoyed their Darjeeling with a generous slice of gossip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The menu offered an unexpectedly broad and comprehensive choice, whether you want breakfast, lunch, a snack&#8230;or just a hot drink (including, incidentally, coffee). Plenty of vegetarian options filled the pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The influence of tea-drinking regions means you can enjoy a traditional Viennese breakfast, but also try a Japanese or American one, instead (just to pluck out two of the many examples of international cuisine available).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3pm and time for tea<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously, the main thing here is tea: choose from dozens of varieties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And things take a cultural and historical turn after 3pm, when the afternoon tea delights become available (think sandwiches, scones, cakes, and Regency gentlemen enquiring after your mother&#8217;s health).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a cream tea with a pot of Assam and found my warm scone, mascarpone, and jam conjuring up memories of church fetes from my home county of Wiltshire in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/haashaas2025.jpg\" alt=\"Tea shop in a historical setting with an outdoor serving area\" class=\"wp-image-87490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/haashaas2025.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/haashaas2025-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(In summer, enjoy an outdoor serving area on the cathedral square, too)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Haas&amp;Haas menu featured various versions of the traditional English afternoon tea experience, but also one or two international alternatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although we went very much out-of-season, the tables filled up fast in the afternoon. So I&#8217;d recommend making a reservation, if you plan to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seating typically expands in summer, with a few tables outside the front of the tea shop and even more in a lovely rear courtyard section that feels a little like taking tea in the conservatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That same courtyard typically hosts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winterinthecity.at\/\">Winter in the City<\/a> through the Advent season. Enjoy hot punch and mulled wine, and warm your hands over open fires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That rear area also reveals the inside of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/deutschordenshaus\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"6317\">Deutschordenshaus<\/a> complex, where Mozart and Brahms once lived. (I&#8217;m not sure of either&#8217;s hot beverage of choice.) Another Mozart residence lies just around the corner: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/footsteps\/mozarthaus\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"5858\">Mozarthaus museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Haas&amp;Haas shop<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You should probably reserve a few minutes for browsing the adjacent Haas&amp;Haas shop, too. The store offers a refined selection of tea-related items in the very widest sense of the concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, I spotted fudge and shortbread, fruit gel\u00e9es, chocolate and candied violets, jams and marmalade, tea sets&#8230;and lots and lots and lots of different teas on my last visit. Not cheap, but a fine place for unique little gifts to take home with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to get to Haas&amp;Haas<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>First, find your way to the main entrance to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/stefansdom\/\">Stephansdom<\/a>. Walk around the south side of the grand old cathedral to find Haas&amp;Haas at the far end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tea rooms have two entrances; enter via the main shop entrance on the left of the building or go through into the courtyard accessed through the door on the right (marked <em>Teehaus<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Stephansplatz 4, 1010 Vienna | <a href=\"https:\/\/haas-haas.at\/pages\/teehaus\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1IxPFEhDg3FsX7IS7iCoTg5wgA-9Mi0Cq\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve had enough of cake and coffee in Vienna, you might like something completely different. Like, um, cake and tea. 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