Best Restaurants Open on Monday in Vienna 2026

Steirereck is the only three-Michelin-star kitchen in Vienna that opens on a Monday. Heinz Reitbauer runs the room inside the Stadtpark, and it serves Monday to Friday, lunch from 11:30am and dinner from 6:30pm, then closes for the weekend. That makes Monday one of only five chances a week to eat here. Order the signature char cooked at the table in melted beeswax, then the langly composed produce courses that made the room Austria's first three-star. It is the Monday pick for a landmark, dressed-up dinner, and because the weekend closure pushes demand onto weekdays, book several weeks ahead.

Konstantin Filippou holds two Michelin stars in the old centre on Dominikanerbastei, and unlike most of Vienna's top rooms it opens Monday for both lunch and dinner. The chef-patron is a Styrian with Greek roots, and the cooking threads both: precise Austrian technique with a Mediterranean clarity. Take the tasting menu and let the sommelier work the list, or sit at the kitchen counter to watch the pass. It is the Monday pick for a serious tasting-menu dinner without Steirereck's scale, and the early-week opening means a midweek table is reachable inside a fortnight rather than a month.

Mraz & Sohn is the two-star family kitchen Markus Mraz runs with his sons in unglamorous Brigittenau, north of the centre, and it opens Monday evening when half the city is dark. The format is a single creative tasting menu, playful and technically loose in a way the grander rooms are not, served in a small dining room that feels like a private house. There is no à la carte; you eat what the kitchen sends. It is the Monday pick for a diner who wants two-star cooking without ceremony, so reserve ahead and take a taxi, because the address is residential and off the tourist map.

Plachutta on Wollzeile is the address Viennese families name when the dish is Tafelspitz, the boiled-beef course that is the city's defining plate, and it runs all day Monday from 11:30am to 11:30pm. The beef arrives in its copper pot with marrow bones, root vegetables and the apple-horseradish and chive sauces, carved at the table. This is not Michelin cooking and does not pretend to be; it is the canonical version of a regional classic done at scale and done right. It is the Monday pick for a first night in Vienna or a guest who wants the real local dish rather than a tasting menu, and a booking is wise on a busy Monday.

Figlmüller on Wollzeile has served the plate-sized Wiener Schnitzel since 1905, and the original house opens Monday from 11am to 10:30pm. The schnitzel here is pounded so thin it overhangs the plate, breaded light and fried crisp, and the kitchen sends hundreds a day without dropping the standard. Pair it with the potato-lamb's-lettuce salad and a glass of Grüner Veltliner from the house list. It is the Monday pick for the canonical Vienna lunch or an unfussy dinner, and because the lane fills with visitors, book a table rather than queueing, especially for the 1pm and 7pm peaks.

Das Loft sits on the 18th floor of the SO/ Vienna hotel above the Danube Canal, a glass room under a 3,000-tile coloured ceiling with the widest skyline view in the city, and it serves Monday lunch and dinner. It is Michelin Guide listed for a modern European menu, and it takes walk-ins rather than reservations, which makes it the rare Monday option you can decide on at the last minute. Time a drink or dinner for dusk, when the cathedral and the rooftops light up below. It is the Monday pick for a view-led evening or a spontaneous table, so arrive early for a window seat, which the walk-in policy makes a matter of timing rather than booking.