There are several recognised gourmet temples in Vienna. Most of the top restaurants have been around for many years, some of them stopped developing many years ago and some of them are not even good any longer. Silvio Nickol Gourmet Restaurant was established in April 2011 so compared to the surrounding venues, this newcomer is a baby. But this newcomer has accomplished more in short time than what most restaurants come close to during their entire existence.

Silvio Nickol Gourmet Restaurant has everything you can wish out of a top dining restaurant. A brilliant chef at the top of his game, a restaurant manager who knows personal hospitality inside out and a head sommelier with a wine expertise and perfect manners for introducing you to the amazing wine selections. The rest of the team leaves absolutely nothing more to wish for so you have a wonderful gastronomic ride in front of you when you enter the doors of Palais Coburg.

Take the elevator upstairs and you will soon enter one of the world’s true gastronomic palaces. The restaurant is located inside a restored part of the palace vault. The style is top-modern with sleek luxurious design elements reminding you of a perfect blend of new and old. You can enjoy your apéritif outside at the palace terrace and have an option of either to sit in the main dining room or to have a seat at the chef’s table which is not in the kitchen as they usually are. Here, you sit in front of a wall-mounted television where you can watch all the action going on in the kitchen.

Palais Coburg is a luxurious hotel palace with one of the most amazing wine cellars in the world. There are more than 5,200 labels and around 60,000 bottles divided into six different wine cellars. The volume is not what impresses the most, no; it is the selection of rare and wonderful wines which you can find here in plenty. Head Sommelier Hendrik Aufderheide is more than happy to guide you through Palais Coburg’s outstanding wine carte and in addition there are some of the best wine by the glass offerings in the world.

It is mighty impressive how quickly Silvio Nickol and his team have turned something promising into something you absolutely can not miss as a food and wine lover. Silvio Nickol Gourmet Restaurant is an essential reservation and easily worth a trip to Vienna for.

Written by Andy