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Eating fish in Atlantis

In which I write about eating a fish platter one fine Saturday evening

Foodcamp 2013

After last year’s triumphant foodcamp, organisers Dani and Nina managed to step it up a notch again at this year’s event. At a splendid palais in the middle of Vienna, they set up an unconference centered around food that was filled with, well, great food by very generous

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Zum Reznicek or When eating blood is a good thing

I know, I know, it’s quite a headline, but what can I say? It’s actually about both of these things. First, there’s Zum Recnizek, a traditional Viennese restaurant deep inside the 9th district. Second, there’s their menu, which is small, but contains just the right things.

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Café Mocca - perfect ham and eggs

There are times for caviar and there are times for, well, ham and eggs. Accordingly, there are places that serve caviar and there are places that serve ham and eggs. Now, Café Mocca, a most charming little café situated inside a trainstation in Vienna’s 18th district definitely doesn’t

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Lifeball 2010

I’m a lucky bastard. I really am. I do, for example, have friends who think of me when they have spare tickets to events. Like a couple of weeks ago when I was treated to a concert of Them Crooked Vultures. Or, well, yesterday, when a good friend of

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At Plachutta

For everyone who isn’t Austrian, or Viennese for that matter, the Plachutta restaurants won’t be that well known. For all the others, the name evokes images of traditional Austrian cuisine coupled with loads of celebrities – A to Z – who love being seen there. And if you’re lucky,

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At the canteen

I had lunch at Tommi Hirschs Kantine. It’s a new canteen right next to work, which also doubles as the headquarter of a caterer. The food is always of outstanding quality, not just for a canteen. Sometimes though, since I’m a certified glutton, the portions are a tad

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Oceansize, Flex, 09

It’s not that long ago that I wrote on here about one of the best concerts I’d ever been to. It was Oceansize’s gig at Vienna’s Flex, about two years ago. I was quite ecstatic, and for solid reasons. First of all, I was in the

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Augustin in Vienna - Eat well, lounge well

While I am very much into cooking my own food, going out and enjoying what others have cooked up for my consumption is something I’m very fond of as well. Of course, it does cost the equivalent of money, so if you don’t have any, home cooking might

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Barcamp Vienna 09

Last weekend saw the 2009 edition of another Barcamp here in Vienna. As always since the inception of two-day barcamps, I only managed to attend one of the two days. The location was amazing, not only because private Modul University is allowing you a fantastic view all over Vienna but

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Atheist Bus Campaign in Vienna - or not

After starting in London and then spreading to various other European Cities, the Atheist Bus Campaign is a private-sponsor funded project created to make people aware of the rather high probability that there is indeed no god: Photo by benteka/Flickr The campaign created quite a stir and currently the

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Barcamp Vienna 08 (this is the recap)

As hinted in my post a few days back, Barcamps are always a lot of fun, the food is a plenty and people are interesting. Well, wasn’t anything different this time. Very well organized by a bunch of dedicated Barcampers. Thanks again to you all! Numerous people have already

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Portugal. The Man, again

Went and saw Portugal.The Man again, this time at WUK. The venue is a bit smaller and doesn’t have the sound system of Flex, but I like it better, not least due to the absence of superfluous security “guarding” whatever there is to guard. The concert was everything

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Tupalo Party

Yesterday’s Tupalo party was jolly good fun. Apart from lots of Vodka, Bionade and a whole bunch of people I usually only converse with via the Internets, we also got some nice schwag. And I like schwag! Please note the notebook, originally provided by one of the party’s

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Barcamp January '08

Tomorrow at WerkzeugH, the first Barcamp of 2008 in Vienna. Come plenty.

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You know it's winter...

…when it takes barely two minutes to bleach a streetcorner:

Impressions

After the storm

And that’s what it looked like when the storm had passed.

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Moving Views from the Window

While usually I only post the static image, generally known as “the picture”, today I’ll try something different. And this is why: Today, as I entered the abode after a healthy afternoon snack and was about to open the windows to let the accumulated heat out, I had to

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The White Stripes...

…in red and tiny. I don’t know whether it’s a trademark already, but I do find the way Meg White moves her head from one side to the other while playing the drums kind of cute.

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Tupalo - stuff in your neighborhood

Tupalo, a new webservice by Vienna based 9tomorrows, is a service that lets users review everything in their neighborhood. From restaurants to record stores or independent shopping opportunities. Right now their service covers eleven international cities, including Berlin, San Francisco, Toronto and of course Vienna. The interface is quite intuitive,

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At the laundromat

We went to the laundromat yesterday, because sometimes you need a bigger washing machine than the ones they usually sell. My original plan of having ice cream and sitting on the boardwalk in front of the laundromat while waiting for our laundry to finish was thwarted by a rather dusty

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The Cooper Temple Clause

Sunday, Arena, Vienna. Song of the evening: Panzer Attack.

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Understanding

Today I got a letter from our cable company. Inside, there was a laconic message that went something like this: “We ask for your understanding that starting next month, the monthly fees for our services will be raised by 30 Euro-Cents.” Now, usually I’m really quite an understanding person.

Music

How to be fucking awesome, Pt.II

Apparently, for some people the phrase “fucking awesome” is just a bit too ambiguous. Karl Fluch, music critic at the Austrian daily “Der Standard”, may be a nice fellow not least because of his admiration of everyone’s favourite yellow people, but his writings about music are worth shit. If

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That time of the year again

I don’t know about you, but I’d be hard pressed to find better things to do on the 1st of November than hanging out with friends at the cemetery and then devouring a gargantuan Schnitzel at one of the best places for that sort of activity here in