Caféhaus - Anecdotes

Not only poets spent their free time at the café "Central" but also the Mayor of Vienna Karl Lueger and a young Russian emigrant called Laib Bronstein, better known as Mr. Trotzky. A civil servant of the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reading a newspaper expressed his opinion on the article about the Russian revolution: "Who is going to revolutionize Russia, surely not Mr Bronstein sitting at the Café Central?"

Alfred Polgar wrote the following about the café Central which he visited regularly: The "Central" is a place for people who have to kill time in order not to be killed by it.

When Peter Altenberg had died the "Central" lost its importance as a meeting place for poets. They all moved to the newly established café "Herrenhof". "Only mummies keep their word" wrote Anton Kuh.

Five men came to a Viennese café and order something. Each wanted something diferent.. "A cup of light coffee with plenty milk!"
"A cup of tea and milk!"
"A cup of coffee with milk!"
"A cup of coffee with little milk!"
"A cup decaffeinated coffee with a little cold milk!"
The waiter went to the kitchen and ordered: "5 coffees please!"

Tallyerand stated: "Coffee has to be hot like hell, black as the devil, pure like an angel and sweet as love."