Where to eat in Salzburg

The restaurant of the Hotel Sacher on Schwarzstraße, in a house that opened in 1866 as the Österreichischer Hof and took the Sacher name in 2000, panelled in Swiss pine and hung with hunting trophies, serving Austrian classics with several dishes finished at the table.

Address: Schwarzstraße 5, 5020 Salzburg, Austria

Richard and Sybille Brunnauer's restaurant in the Ceconi villa on Fürstenallee, a nineteenth-century house built by the Salzburg architect, with a terrace facing the fortress. The cooking is regional and seasonal with French leanings.

Address: Fürstenallee 5, 5020 Salzburg, Austria

A 45-seat restaurant in a Liefering building that has been an inn since 1879, taken over by Harald and Andrea Huber in 2013. The cooking runs from the northern Alps down to northern Italy, and there is a wine cellar and shop below.

Address: Peter-Pfenninger-Straße 8, 5020 Salzburg, Austria

The lakeside restaurant of the Weisses Rössl hotel in St. Wolfgang, about fifty minutes east of Salzburg, with terraces over the Wolfgangsee. The hotel is the one the operetta Im Weissen Rössl made famous. It also has a beautiful view of the lake.

Address: Markt 74, 5360 St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut, Austria

The restaurant of the Brandstätter family's inn out in Liefering, run by the same family for generations, where Tobias Brandstätter cooks Austrian classics.

Address: Münchner Bundesstraße 69, 5020 Salzburg, Austria

The restaurant of Schloss Fuschl, the lakeside castle hotel at Hof bei Salzburg about twenty kilometres east of the city by road, looking out over the Fuschlsee.

Address: Schloss-Straße 19, 5322 Vorderelsenwang, Austria

Set against the Mönchsberg rock face inside St. Peter's Abbey, and reputedly the oldest restaurant in Central Europe, with roots traced back to 803 AD. Austrian cooking in vaulted baroque halls, with a courtyard terrace, regional wines and the Mozart Dinner Concert.

Address: Sankt-Peter-Bezirk 1/4, 5020 Salzburg, Austria

The Salzburg branch of Sacher, on the bank of the Salzach a few steps from the Old Town. They do traditional Austrian dishes, coffee specialities and the classic desserts – Kaiserschmarrn and the Original Sacher-Torte.

Address: Schwarzstraße 5/7, 5020 Salzburg, Austria

Established in 1700, Café Tomaselli is one of Austria's oldest coffee houses and a cornerstone of Salzburg's Old Town on the Alter Markt. Wood-panelled rooms and a famed cake trolley invite you to linger over a Melange and Viennese pastries, much as Mozart's family once did. Everyone loves apple strudel, but my favourite is the poppy seed strudel. The one at Tomaselli is definitely worth it, with a nice hot chocolate on the side.

Address: Alter Markt 9, 5020 Salzburg, Austria

A traditional Salzburg coffee house on the Schwarzstraße riverbank, opened in 1909 when Richard Tomaselli took over the shops in the 1880s Bazar building. It has long been a gathering place for artists and actors. Wood panelling, chandeliers, and a terrace by the river looking straight across the Salzach to the Old Town.

Address: Schwarzstraße 3, 5020 Salzburg, Austria