Buffet TrześniewskiĪmong this famous place's 22 options for small sandwiches, the classic favorites are Geflügelleber (chicken liver), Matjes mit Zwiebel (herring with onions), and Speck mit Ei (bacon and eggs).

If you happen to be looking through Demel's window at exactly 19:01, just after closing, you can witness one of the great tragedies of modern Europe: the daily dumping of its unsold cakes. Sit inside, with a view of the cake-making, or outside, with the street action. Farther in, you can see the bakery in action. Inside is an impressive cancan of Vienna's most beloved cakes - displayed to tempt visitors into springing for the 10 cake-and-coffee deal. The enticing window displays change monthly, reflecting current happenings in Vienna. The cakes here are moist (compared with the dry Sacher tortes).

The room is filled with Art Nouveau boxes of Empress Sisi's choco-dreams come true: Kandierte Veilchen (candied violet petals), Katzenzungen (cats' tongues), and so on. Broadway and East 10th Street today, site of the former Fleischmann’s Model Vienna Bakery.Demel is the ultimate Viennese chocolate shop. As the process was regularized, lines would begin to form before the appointed distribution time, and the popular term was born.īy 1905, Grace Church acquired the land upon which the bakery and restaurant were located, and the area was razed to create a new churchyard space. Fleischmann’s charitable inclinations led him to institute a practice at the bakery of distributing unsold loaves to those in need beginning at midnight. Notable as a bakery and restaurant (you can view a 1906 dinner menu from the restaurant here), the site was also notable in that it generated a new term for the American lexicon - the breadline. A prime location even in the 1870s and 1880s, this stretch of Broadway was ideally located, with high foot traffic, and could later could capitalize on shoppers visiting the massive Wanamaker’s department store just across 10 th Street to the south. The company built the baking operation here to showcase their yeast products and high quality baked goods.

Fleischmann’s Model Vienna Bakery at Broadway and East 10th Street in 1891. Fleischmann’s company had pioneered the commercial production and distribution of yeast for baking, and even today Fleischmann’s yeast can be found in supermarkets across the country. Today that space directly to the south of the church building houses a churchyard and the Grace Church School playground, but during the late 19 th century, that plot actually housed a large bakery building and café/restaurant.įleischmann’s Model Vienna Bakery was built on this location by Charles Louis Fleischmann, who, following the success of his company’s Vienna bread display at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, was looking to expand business into the New York market. However, if you look closely at the bottom-right of the church building, you can also make out a large awning extending out to Broadway, which marks the location of a local landmark long gone. The 1890s photo above shows a familiar view of Grace Church as one looks north on Broadway, almost exactly as it appears today. James Renwick Jr.’s gothic masterpiece was consecrated in 1846 after the congregation moved uptown from its original location at Broadway and Rector Street. Standing where Broadway begins its curve to the west at 10 th Street, the landmarked Grace Church has been a fixture of Broadway’s landscape for over 160 years. Looking north on Broadway to Grace Church (l.) circa 1890s, image via NYPL, and (r.) today.

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