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Delightful Shopping Vienna
o supermarket can compete life at the market. Nowhere else
with the variety of in Vienna is the concentration of
products to be had at sushi bars so high. What’s more,
Vienna’s Naschmarkt market. Its a young creative scene has
style and atmosphere are emerged at the Naschmarkt Deli,
unparalleled too. The Naschmarkt, which dishes up not only food
located not far from the ranging from Turkish to American,
Secession, has always mainly been but also electronic music. The
a local source of groceries. Naschmarkt and its surroundings
Shoppers can find fresh fruit and has always been a good haunt for
vegetables, cold meats, cheese night owls. Places such as Café
and all kinds of deli products Drechsler witness a constant
there, ranging from the coming-and-going of early-rising
conventional to the exquisite. stall holders and party revelers
Particular specialties include for whom the night is too short.
goods from the Balkans, as well
as Central European and Asian The Naschmarkt is Vienna’s most
fare. popular market. Located at the
Wienzeile over the Wien River it
This market is on a central is about 1.5 kilometers long. The
sidewalk between two streets Naschmarkt has existed since the
called Linke and Rechte 16th century when mainly milk
Wienzeile. As soon as one enters bottles were sold. From 1793
one can make it out that it is a onwards, all fruits and
fruits and vegetables market. One vegetables brought to Vienna with
will find here some traditional carts had to be sold here, while
Viennese products too. goods arriving on the Danube were
sold elsewhere. These days, one
Snack stalls and small eateries can buy fresh fruit and
are the reasonable complement to vegetables from around the world,
including exotic herbs. There are supermarkets, but the Naschmarkt
also a lot of small restaurants is such an institution - and such
which offer e.g. sushi, kebab, a spectacle - many Viennese
fish, seafood, traditional including the top city chefs
Viennese food such as among them, prefer to do their
Kaiserschmarrn or Palatschinken food shopping here. The variety
and stalls which offer clothes is amazing; the noshing can be
and accessories. Since 1977, the fun, the sales folk manning the
market extends further along the stalls snappish and ill-mannered.
Wienzeile to an adjacent area Stalls open at 5 or 6 AM, and the
every Saturday, when a flea pace is lively until 5 or 6 PM.
market takes place there. Saturday is the big day, when
farmers come into the city to
The unique atmosphere of the sell at the back end of the
Naschmarkt is famous far beyond market, but shops close around 3
the borders of Vienna, and huge PM. Also Saturday there's a huge
amounts of tourists visit the flea market at Kettenbrückengasse
market every year. end.
Its many food stalls comprise one There are quite a number of
of Europe’s last and most markets where one can buy fresh
colorful food and produce vegetable and assorted tidbits.
markets, a great holdover from But Naschmarkt is arguably more
the days when all foodstuffs were than that: it is a Viennese
sold in open-air markets. Today, institution dating back to the
of course, there are 16th century.
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