Gandl

Gandl began as Maria Gandl's small grocery store on St.-Anna-Platz, the prettiest square in Lehel, before Alexander Lutz transformed it into a comfortable restaurant-and-delicatessen more than three decades ago. The room is split between a sunny terrace under chestnuts and an intimate interior of dark wood and crisp linen; the kitchen turns out light Italian-leaning lunches (vitello tonnato, pasta with seasonal vegetables, fresh fish) and a more elevated French-influenced dinner, game in season, lamb properly rendered, classic plates rather than reinvented ones. The attached delicatessen sells the same olive oils, hams, and wines you've just eaten. A neighbourhood institution that locals book without thinking.