Café Hawelka
Coffee house off the Graben in central Vienna, Austria. See Vienna (Literary).
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither Here Nor There | Bill Bryson | setting | The one friendly café in Vienna, dark and musty, where a waiter brings him USA Today. |
Neither Here Nor There — Bill Bryson (1991)
Source: Readwise highlight
The one friendly café I found was the Hawelka, around the corner from my hotel.
- Role: setting
- In the book: Chapter 19. It is “musty, disheveled, and so dark that I had to feel my way to a table”, with newspapers on racks. An old waiter brings coffee unasked and, realising Bryson is American, piles copies of USA Today in front of him; Bryson’s pleas for real newspapers go unheard.
- Why it matters: The warm exception to his complaint about Viennese cafés (compare Café Central), played as a gentle comic vignette.