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Sepia-toned market scene reminiscent of the Naschmarkt in Vienna, vintage postcard style

NASCHMARKT · WIEN · c. 1923

Wiener Schnitzel

Kalbsschnitzel
Semmelbrösel
Geklärte Butter
Zitronenschale
Petersilkartoffeln

REZEPT NR. 7 — GROSSMUTTERS KÜCHE

Overhead photograph of a golden Wiener Schnitzel with lingonberry compote and parsley potatoes on a white plate

SCHNITZEL

WIEN · SEIT 2019 · ECHTHEIT GARANTIERT

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Pounded thin as parchment. Fried in clarified butter. Served the way Vienna demands it.

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Hands pounding a veal cutlet thin on a wooden board, flour dust caught mid-air in warm kitchen light

01 · DER SCHLAG

Pounded to Parchment.

Each cutlet is worked by hand with a smooth mallet until it reaches the thickness of a playing card — uniform, without tears, without apology. The meat yields slowly. This is not something you rush.

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Golden breadcrumbs coating a veal schnitzel being pressed by hand in a shallow tray

02 · DIE PANIER

Three passes. No shortcuts.

Flour first — to give the egg somewhere to hold. Egg beaten with a splash of cold water. Then Semmelbrösel: fine, dry, freshly made. The crumb is pressed on gently so the coating stays loose, ready to billow in the pan.

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A schnitzel sizzling in bubbling clarified butter in a large copper pan, golden and billowing

03 · DIE PFANNE

Clarified butter. Nothing else.

The pan is wide, the butter deep, the heat steady at 160°C. The schnitzel goes in and the cook tilts the pan — the fat washes over the top in waves, cooking from every direction at once. The crust billows away from the meat like a golden pillow. That gap is everything.

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DER TELLER · THE PLATE

What arrives at your table.

A Wiener Schnitzel served on a white plate with lingonberry compote, lemon wedge, and buttered parsley potatoes, overhang visible

THE VEAL

Milk-fed. Humanely raised.

We source our Kalbfleisch from a single farm in the Willamette Valley. The animals are milk-fed and slow-grown. The meat is pale pink, fine-grained, and yields exactly the way it should under the mallet.

THE CRUMB

Baked fresh. Ground here.

Semmelbrösel are not breadcrumbs from a canister. We bake Semmel rolls each morning, let them dry through the afternoon, and grind them fine before service. The difference is audible.

THE BUTTER

Clarified. Always.

Vegetable oil is not butter. Whole butter burns. Clarified butter — Butterschmalz — holds at the right temperature long enough for the crust to set golden without the milk solids turning. There is no substitute.

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WAS MAN SAGT · WHAT THEY SAY

The press came.
They stayed for seconds.

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The schnitzel billows — that gap between crust and meat is everything, and Schnitzel gets it right. This is the real thing, transplanted intact from the First District.

Russ Parsons

Los Angeles Times · 2023

+ 2 MORE PRESS MENTIONS BELOW

"I've eaten Wiener Schnitzel in Vienna a dozen times. This is better than most of them. The clarified butter makes all the difference."

Jonathan Gold · Food & Wine · 2022

"Order the Stiegl. Order the schnitzel. Sit in the back booth. Stay until they close. You'll understand."

Tejal Rao · The New York Times · 2024

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2019

Established

Serving Vienna since

Warm wood-paneled Beisl interior with leather banquettes and candlelight

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ÖFFNUNGSZEITEN

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Tue–Thu17:30–22:30
Fri–Sat17:30–23:00
Sunday16:00–22:00

Kitchen closes 30 min before close.

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Los Angeles, CA 90028

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