Food & Drink

Enhance your opera experience with a taste of culinary elegance!

Café-Bar-Aperitivo

In the opera foyer of the Vienna State Opera you can enjoy a wide selection of drinks, food and snacks in our opera café, Café-Bar-Aperitivo.

The Café-Bar-Aperitivo is open daily from 10.00 am to 6.00 pm; on performance days the café remains open until 10.30 pm.

Like our intermission buffets, the Café-Bar-Aperitivo is run by our catering partner Gerstner.

The café is part of our visitor center - in addition to the café, the Bundestheater box offices for ticket sales.

Our interval buffets

For our regular evening performances, our interval buffets are also open upon admission. This means you can enjoy a drink or a snack before the performance begins.

If you would like to reserve a table with drinks and food for the interval, you can of course do so at the buffet of your choice or via the online reservation tool before the performance begins. This will save you waiting time during the interval and give you more time to enjoy it.

You will find our interval buffets in the Gustav Mahler Hall, Schwind Foyer, Marble Hall, by the gallery, in the box foyer and the parterre foyer.

© Wiener Staatsoper / Michael Pöhn

Break buffet in the Gustav Mahler Hall

© Wiener Staatsoper / Sofia Vargaiová

Break buffet in the Schwindfoyer

© Wiener Staatsoper / Sofia Vargaiová

Break buffet in the Marble Hall

For events in the Gustav Mahler Hall, our interval buffet opens 30 minutes before the start of the event. During the break (if the event has a break) the buffet is of course also open.

Only the buffet in the Gustav Mahler Hall is open.

Unfortunately, the interval buffet is not open during our ensemble matinees and studio concerts.

At our Circle of Friends events, the buffet is usually open after the end of the event.