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A true Vienna experience includes the Sacher cake

21 December 2023

1:31 AM

21 December 2023

1:31 AM

What Victoria is to a jam sponge, so is Sacher to chocolate cake. It’s a man, a hotel and a cake and indeed, shorthand for a city. The lines outside the Sacher Hotel café in Vienna for chocolate cake with whipped cream on the side are looking for a Viennese experience, like schnitzel, Strauss waltzes or pictures by Klimt.

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