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The third part of the camp

Accidents could happen. Because there's a fabulously attractive Somec ("Società Meccanica") racing bike hanging in the display of the new bike store, with sparkling Campagnolo Christmas tree ornaments, cream-white painted steel frame, shiny chrome fork and dark brown suede saddle. And on the other side of the street, the Margaretenstraßen-Operngassen cycle path passes by, which is known as a rather fast connection, and you just have to look over there ... So the bike warehouse has moved once again. After the incredibly charming and improvised-looking cave in Windmühlgasse, from whose ceiling the beautiful bike classics hung from 2007, and after the successor Radlager in a former copy store in Westbahnstraße, which from summer 2011 was not lacking in cool shabbyness, but just couldn't be heated in winter, now at a surprisingly inner-city address. Marcus Böhm, inventor of bike bearings and pioneer of the retro racing bike cult in Vienna, has found two partners - one a travel agency entrepreneur, the other a professor of philosophy of law in England - who already run Vienna's first frozen yoghurt store Foxy around the corner and actually wanted to open a Jewish deli in the pretty restaurant on Operngasse. Now it's a bit of both: Vienna's most beautiful bike store with collector's items such as a stunning, olive-green CBT Italia with a notched seat tube or a shockingly beautiful Faggin with a crisp Brooks saddle on the wall, plus a cult venue for the top Neapolitan espresso Passalacqua, including a Faema E61 espresso machine that is virtually indispensable in this context, and finally, for the first time, a real restaurant that also looks like one.
This means that you no longer have to drink your espresso, Budweiser or wines from Buchegger and Domäne Geymüller standing up, but can sit down at real tables. And even get something to eat there, and definitely great snacks, such as a juicy roast beef sandwich in toasted white bread with mustard pickle and excellent beetroot-sweet potato-roasted-chilli-nuts-goat's cheese salad (which is also available as a separate portion), but hello (€ 4.90).
The creamy tuna melt sandwich was also gorgeous, the lentil and goat's cheese salad fantastic, and the pastrami sandwich, which is currently being planned, is something to look forward to. Vinyl is spinning on the turntable and spreading a good mood, and soon there will be a few more top Italian coffees to take away or drink at the same time. In any case, the Paninoteca has got some serious competition, one more address in Vienna's best snack area at the moment. Summary: the retro bike espresso paradise Radlager may have lost its improvised nature, but it has gained great sandwiches. Radlager 4th, Operng. 28, Mon-Wed 10-20, Thu-Sat 10-24,

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