Cafe Hawelka – known literary cafe in Vienna. The cafe was opened in 1939 married couple Leopold and Josephine Havelka on the dorotheergasse in place of the previous bar "Chatman bar". At the beginning of the Second World war the cafe was forcedly closed until the autumn of 1945. There comes the re-opening: Josephine brews coffee on a wood stove, and Leopold personally brings wood from the Vienna woods. Together, they care about the welfare of the guests is a cozy cafe begin to love visitors.

In the fifties café has become very popular among the creative public. In the cosy café started coming writers, artists and actors. Among the regular customers were people such as Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Oskar Werner, Friedrich Torberg, Ernst Fuchs, Andre Heller, Helmut Qualtinger, Heimito von Doderer and many other outstanding people. When, in 1961, in Vienna closed another fashionable literary cafe Herrenhof, many creative people began to spend his evenings in Havelte.

The heyday of the popularity of the cafe was in the sixties and seventies. In the cafe guests begin to arrive from other countries, for example, Elias Canetti, Arthur Miller and Andy Warhol. Politicians and journalists come to the cafe to get acquainted with the latest trends. The crowd comes to see living legends and try your luck. Leopold welcomes guests with delicious coffee, and Josephine sculpts for celebrities incredibly delicious and flavorful dumplings.

Josephine Havelka died 22 March 2005 after 66 years of running the cafe. The recipe for their signature dessert, 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 at the café to serve visitors hotcakes. After the death of Josephine and Leopold cafe manages their son Gunther.