There are conflicting stories as to how and why this decadent dessert was invented, but no matter its true origin, its taste ...

Not one crumb is out of place on Café Sacher’s sachertorte. A slick of smooth apricot jam is sandwiched between two layers of neat chocolate sponge, the whole thing cloaked in a precisely 4mm-thick ...

VIENNA — The Hotel Sacher will never be mistaken for a hip hotel. The elaborate gilt trim in public rooms, the old-school celebrity photos that adorn the walls and the tourists in line to sample ...

Vienna’s coffee houses are places “where time and space are consumed, but only the coffee is found on the bill”. So reads the UNESCO description of these institutions. Time and space may satisfy a ...

So imagine me at the factory where Vienna’s famous ultra-chocolatey Sacher torte is made (up to 360,000 a year) according to a tightly held recipe. Which establishment could claim to have “invented” ...

Born in 1832, this is no ordinary chocolate cake as apricot jam plays a delicious role in its making, writes Rameshinder Singh Sandhu ...

In an imperial city replete with fantastic characters, many of whom were emperors and archdukes, royals and aristocrats, there are few Viennese doyennes more fabled than Anna Sacher, the 19th century ...

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