Familie Reiter

Review

Family dinner

After two years of cooking at the Meidlinger Markt-Beisl Heu und Gabel, Lukas Reiter and his partner Marlies Mayer decided in spring to do something of their own: something small, something manageable, something unhectic, something that you can do 100 percent yourself. This is a very important point and probably the reason why the catering industry currently has an existential employee problem rather than the medium-low pay: Hardly anyone wants to do the stressful job that doesn't allow for a family or social life. Lukas Reiter does, but according to his own rules. He and his partner took over the former Café Mimi, a gluten-free vintage café in the so-called "Einkaufsgarten", a local store ensemble in the courtyard of a Biedermeier house in Lainz. They plugged in two induction plates and turned it into a pretty, bright, somewhat very colorful daytime eatery with an awning terrace. Of course, he knows that cooking without a large team and only the things that are delivered fresh from the farmers. But with wit and finesse.

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