MANANA cafẽ

House-roasted coffee is the premise at MANANA café, a specialty café in Vienna’s 18th district, Währing, which calls itself the district’s “Wohnzimmer.” Its identity runs on the roast, on community and creative exchange, and on a flexible room that also takes tastings, workshops, pop-ups, music, wine and beer, rather than on coffee and cake alone.

Coffee, matcha and simple café staples

The drinks programme centres on house-roasted specialty coffee. The beans are carefully selected, fair traded, handpicked and roasted in house, and they run through espresso, cappuccino, cold brew and the rest of the classics. The list covers espresso, espresso doppio, espresso macchiato, americano, cortado, cappuccino, flat white, caffè latte, filter V60 and an extra shot: a compact setup for espresso and manual filter brewing.

Matcha is part of the identity too, served in several variations. The roasting extends to retail bags, including the decaf coffees PEACH PERFECT, JUICE BOX and NECTARINE BLOOM, described with notes of peach, passion fruit, strawberry, mandarin, raspberry, plum wine, nectarine, green tea and honey. Food stays at snacks and homemade-style sweets, with cinnamon rolls, carrot cake and banana bread the items that come up most.

A casual Vienna café for daytime visits

The atmosphere is informal and neighbourhood-oriented. The café calls itself a “Wohnzimmer” for the 18th district and works to “Wohlfühlen, Abschalten, Ankommen,” which gives the room a stay-a-while character rather than a formal one. The interior is thought through without being showy, and the effect is modern rather than traditional Viennese.

The visit can be quick or slow. Dine-in and takeaway both work, so the counter suits a short espresso, a cappuccino with something sweet, or a longer pause over a V60. The community side matters as much: collaborations, shared formats, workshops, tastings and open exchange all pass through the room. In the evening the café can turn into a small event space with wine, beer and music, and the Wohnzimmer becomes a dancefloor.

Order the cappuccino first, then look at the sweets

For a first order, start with the cappuccino. It sits at the centre of the classic espresso list, and it is where the house milk work shows: one of the café’s baristas took second place at the 2025 Latte Art Austria championship, run under SCA Austria. Espresso, cortado, flat white, caffè latte, americano and espresso macchiato offer other ways to read the same roast through different ratios of coffee, milk and water.

Beyond espresso, choose the filter V60 or the cold brew. The V60 shows the manual-brew side, while cold brew is the house’s own suggestion for tasting the roast cold. Matcha is the obvious non-coffee order, since it comes in several versions. Beside the cup, keep food simple: a cinnamon roll, carrot cake or banana bread are the clearest sweets, and the kitchen stays closer to snacks than to a full menu.