Café Freud

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For around 20 years, Café Freud, right next to the Freud Museum in Berggasse, was a quirky, somewhat outdated café with velvet-covered benches, colorful portraits of Mozart and Freud and a back room with a pool table. The owner was an elderly lady from Belgium or France, we don't really know anymore. At some point, the lady died, the estate was apparently not settled, nobody was interested in the café, it stood empty for three years and fell into disrepair.
And Christian Göttlich is a bit of a specialist when it comes to places that no one is interested in anymore: in 2007, he fell in love with the Espresso Hobby, a unique and fantastically preserved 1960s espresso in the Appel-Hof on Währinger Straße, and tried to keep this tiny, dimly lit design relic alive. Unfortunately, it didn't succeed, and the hobby has been - style-sensitive people should skip this sentence now - a bubble tea bar for some time now.
He also couldn't resist the decaying Café Freud, especially the pool table. However, his wife and partner talked him out of it, because billiards take up a lot of space and bring in very little money. Apart from the name and address, nothing else at Café Freud has remained the same. The old pink 80s look has given way to a simple, cool, straightforward look with chipboard furniture and flooring, industrial lamps, with a soft soul in the background, sockets at every table and a vaulted ceiling in pastel olive green. A graffito gives Professor Freud a somewhat ghostly look in the room.
Also noteworthy is the "Ferry" room, a small back room in which Christian Göttlich screwed a few metal seats from the demolished Dusika stadium to the wall and combined them with the legendary red stools from Café Hobby - very pretty.
Christina Tambosi bakes the pastries in her pastry lab in the Matznerviertel, the croissants come from the Turkish bakery around the corner and the coffee is first-class from the Viennese roasting house Süßmund. The wonderful, sparkling Faema E61 also used to be in the Hobby. Can you really love machines? You definitely can, Freud certainly had an opinion on that ...
And speaking of Freud: the Sigmund Freud Museum was also extensively renovated last year, including the addition of a store, Hermann Czech created a café in the foyer and somehow the museum was a bit more fixed up than Christian Göttlich in terms of the Schanigarten. Café Freud was left with parking spaces in front of the restaurant, which are taboo, psychoanalysis or not.
Summary:
A kind of museum café, but one that has nothing to do with the museum and also holds back on Freud worship, but simply wants to be a fine café.

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