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Griechenbeisl

Name: Griechenbeisl
Address: 11 Fleischmarkt, Wien, Wien, AT

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Rudi

March 9, 2018

Sehr zu empfehlen!!!

Susanna

September 2, 2022

Griechenbeisl is located on Fleischmarkt 11 near the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in one of the oldest parts of the city at the beginning of the Griechengasse. The restaurant derives its name from the Levantine merchants, who lived in the vicinity of the building, and the intensive trade relations between Vienna and the Orient since the time of the Babenberger period. The first documentary mention of the Griechenbeisl dates back to 1447. Around 1500, the building later to become part of (and named for) the Greek quarter was called "Zum gelben Adler" ("At the Yellow Eagle"). In later records the building is referred to as a "guest house" - this name being associated with a tower forming part of the former town fortifications of circa 1200 and possibly incorporated later into a Late Gothic residential building in the 14th century. When Greek and Levantine merchants arrived around the middle of the seventeenth century, the area into which they moved became known as the Greek quarter. It was thus that the guest house acquired its present epithet "Greek". The food that it served, however was always of the traditional Viennese kind. Historically important is the year 1852 when the host Leopold Schmied decided to bring the completely new "Pilsner Urquell" from Pilsen in Bohemia to Vienna for the first time. In the 17th century, the singer and bagpiper Marx Augustin regularly appeared here.

Heidi

December 18, 2017

Perfect place for schnitzel and Mozart's and Mark Twain's signatures. Also ask to see the canon ball embedded in the old city wall (now part of the restaurant structure) from the Turkish invasion in the 1680's.