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In Vienna's seventh district, where historic cafés give way to neighbourhood shops, an Italian sign has held its ground since 1975. Il Mare is Austria's oldest pizzeria: a fact, not a slogan.
Since 1975, an entrance on Zieglergasse 15 has marked, in Vienna's seventh district, the border between Mitteleuropean city life and Italy. Il Mare is recognised as Austria's oldest pizzeria: a distinction that is not nostalgia but the continuity of a precise choice, held firm for over fifty years.
The place is large, though it doesn't feel that way: the dining room unfolds into several intimate spaces, each with its own scale. It is the right geometry for a quick lunch as much as for a dinner that stretches on, Monday to Saturday, with the kitchen open until 10:30pm and the doors staying open until midnight.
The kitchen brings the flavours of Italian and Mediterranean cooking to Vienna: pizza and traditional dishes, also available for delivery through Foodora and Wolt. The service, quick and efficient by regulars' accounts, reflects an organisation honed over time, not improvised.
Over fifty years of Italian cooking in Vienna, at an address that has never needed to reinvent itself. The page tells the rest.
