Gluten-free food in Vienna

Allergiker Café

Wiedner Hauptstraße 35, 1040 Wien · €€

Breakfast, lunch, cakes and pastries made only from gluten-free, lactose-free and soy-free ingredients. Almonds are used, so it is not nut-free.

bröselei

Strudlhofgasse 1/G20, 1090 Wien · €€

An entirely vegan and gluten-free organic kitchen just below the Strudlhofstiege, with a lunch dish that changes daily and a counter of cakes and pastries.

Café Ausnahmsweise

Hofmühlgasse 18, 1060 Wien · €€

A small café baking entirely vegan and gluten-free, cakes, cookies, brownies and a quiche that changes weekly. Four tables inside, a few more in the garden from March to October.

Die KonditoFrei

Wacholderweg 32A, 1210 Wien · €€

A master pâtissier's entirely gluten-free workshop, rebuilding Austrian classics, tortes, slices, roulades, biscuits and pralines, for weddings and celebrations. Order about four weeks ahead; there is no shop to walk into.

Fit Cake Vienna

Reinprechtsdorfer Straße 25, 1050 Wien · €

Cakes and tarts that are gluten-free and sugar-free throughout, sweetened with erythritol, with vegan options alongside. The chain's first Austrian store.

Frau Fuchs

Lerchenfelder Straße 29, 1070 Wien · €€

A vegetarian café that says it is entirely gluten-free, for breakfast, a daily lunch plate and cake, with vegan options throughout. Cash only.

Gasthaus Zum Wohl

Stumpergasse 61, 1060 Wien · €€

Austrian classics, schnitzel, goulash, apple strudel, from an entirely gluten-free and lactose-free kitchen, with vegetarian and vegan dishes and gluten-free beer on tap.

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GlutenFreeX Bäckerei & Konditorei

Nußdorfer Straße 43, 1090 Wien · €

Vienna's dedicated gluten-free bakery: bread and rolls baked fresh each morning, plus cinnamon buns, banana bread, cakes and warm snacks.

Ooneè

Sechsschimmelgasse 7, 1090 Wien · €€

A café and bistro in the Alsergrund where the whole premises is gluten-free and lactose-free, with vegan and sugar-free choices. Milk protein may still be present, so this is a lactose claim and not a dairy-free one.

Simply Raw Bakery

Drahtgasse 2, 1010 Wien · €€

A raw patisserie by Am Hof where nothing is baked above 42 degrees and no flour, egg, dairy or sugar comes into the building. The whole premises is vegan and gluten-free, Sachertorte and Gugelhupf included.

Gasthaus am Predigtstuhl

Oberwiedenstraße 34, 1170 Wien · €€

A family run inn on the edge of Vienna in Dornbach, cooking Austrian home style dishes without ready made products. The site says over 90 percent of the card can be made gluten free on request at the time of ordering, and the card marks gluten free options and allergens per dish. There is a vegan section and Jordanian dishes on pre-order.

Gasthaus Nestroy

Weintraubengasse 7, 1020 Wien · €€

A traditional Viennese inn in Leopoldstadt, open on weekdays. It keeps a separate gluten free card with breaded schnitzel, cordon bleu, goulash and desserts, and the site says most dishes can also be made gluten free. Gluten free beer is on the card.

MAÍZ 1

Schönbrunner Straße 32, 1050 Wien · €€

A taco bar and tortilleria in Margareten that makes its own corn tortillas and masa from organic Austrian corn. The site says the kitchen is gluten free, but its own dish list marks two fillings and the beer with allergen A (gluten), so ask which fillings are on that day.

MAÍZ 2

Albertgasse 14, 1080 Wien · €€

The second branch of the Maíz taco bar, in Josefstadt, with the same house corn tortillas and daily changing fillings. The site says the kitchen is gluten free, but its own dish list marks two fillings and the beer with allergen A (gluten), so ask which fillings are on that day.

Restaurant Führich

Führichgasse 6, 1010 Wien · €€€

An Austrian restaurant in the first district, behind the Albertina. Its card labels gluten free, lactose free and vegan dishes one by one, from risotto and curry to Kaiserschmarrn and cheesecake, and lists gluten free bread. Schnitzel can be made gluten free on request.

Restaurant Ofenloch

Kurrentgasse 8, 1010 Wien · €€€

A traditional Viennese restaurant in a historic house near Judenplatz in the first district. Its card labels gluten free, lactose free and vegan dishes, and says every breaded dish can be made with gluten free crumbs and flour for a surcharge.

Veggiezz Opernring

Opernring 6, 1010 Wien · €€

A wholly plant-based bowls-and-burgers kitchen by the Opera, cooking with organic ingredients. Some dishes are made without gluten, but the kitchen prepares gluten too.

Vevi

Stollgasse 5, 1070 Wien · €€

Vietnamese cooking made entirely from plants, with seitan, soy and konjac standing in for the meat and seafood. Some dishes are made without gluten, but the kitchen prepares gluten too.

Vevi Brigittenau

Leithastraße 21, 1200 Wien · €€

The Brigittenau branch of Vevi on the Leithastraße in Vienna, a Vietnamese kitchen that says all its dishes are plant-based, with seitan and soy in place of meat and a selection of gluten free dishes on the menu. Tell the staff about other allergies, the kitchen has the final word.

Vevi Josefstadt

Albertgasse 51, 1080 Wien · €€

The Josefstadt branch of Vevi on the Albertgasse in Vienna, a Vietnamese kitchen that says all its dishes are plant-based, with seitan and soy in place of meat and a selection of gluten free dishes on the menu. Tell the staff about other allergies, the kitchen has the final word.