Café Havelka - famous literary cafe in Vienna. The cafe was opened in 1939, a married couple Leopold and Josephine Havelka Street Dorotheergasse on the site of a pre-existing bar "Chatman bar." At the beginning of World War II forced the cafe was closed until autumn 1945. There comes a re-opening of Josephine brews coffee on a wood stove, and Leopold personally brings wood from the Vienna Woods. Together they take care of the welfare of the guests - a cozy cafe begin to love visitors.

In the fifties, the cafe has become very popular among creative audience. The cozy cafe started coming writers, artists and actors. Among the regular customers were people such as Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Oskar Werner, Friedrich Thorberg, Ernst Fuchs, Andre Heller, Helmut Kvaltinger, Heymito von Doderer and many other prominent people. When, in 1961, in Vienna, close other fashionable while literary cafe Herenhof, many creative people began to spend his evenings in Havelka.

The flowering of the popularity of the cafe came in the sixties and seventies. Café begin arriving guests from other countries, such as Elias Canetti, Arthur Miller and Andy Warhol. Politicians and journalists have come to the cafe to get acquainted with the latest trends. The crowd came to see the living legend and try your luck. Leopold welcomes guests with delicious coffee, and Josephine sculpts celebrity incredibly delicious and flavorful dumplings.

Josephine Havelka died March 22, 2005 after 66 years of managing a cafe. The recipe for its desserts, which to this day you can try here, she gave her husband and son. Leopold died in 2011 at the age of 100 years. Before his death, he came every evening in a cafe to feed visitors hotcakes. After the death of Josephine and Leopold Cafe manages their son Gunther.