Wild, in Landstrasse Hauptstrasse (III.) at Radetskyplatz 1, is a new favorite.

Unlike most Viennese-style coffee houses/cafes, this place actually serves decent coffee and has an unbelievably good selection of excellent deserts. I’m sorry to dis, but Viennese coffee houses and cafes—especially the big ones—deal in numbers and not quality. The deserts are often procured, the coffee is often crap, and the food is an afterthought. Not so with Wild.

We started our visit with some lovely fresh-squeezed lemonade spritzers and moved on to food.

A delicious polenta-vegetable tart served with a perfect little fresh tomatoe sauce was just right for eating at our outdoor table surrounded by bamboo. A braised pork shoulder with house made tomatoe tagliatelle was a fine dish, if a bit wrong for a hot day. It was so good, however, that it soon disappeared. The pork was moist and flavorful, and the pasta was firm and soaked up the remainder of the braising liquid perfectly.

Deserts were some of the best we’ve had in Vienna. An unsweetened apple strudel with freshly-whipped cream and a berry yogurt with fruit sauce rounded out the meal.

We plan to return again and again. A Vienna Bike station is right next door—so it’s easily accessible from anywhere.