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About Me



Who we are: Koller and Weller - the two famous "billigesser" from Vienna / Austria. Once a week we meet at lunch to try one of the canteens in the center of Vienna. And believe us: there are a lot of!

My Interests

Inspired from Thomas Bernhard's novel "Die Billigesser" (1980) we're exploring the world of business canteens and public canteens.

More than 25 years ago the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard described a world of fast food which was already in the past: the so called "WÖK" - "Wiener öffentliche Küchen" (Vienna public kitchen) was a restaurant for the working class and the poor, but everybody went there.. It was a post war institution and existed untill the 80s of the last century. It was a manifestation of cheap food which everybody could afford.

We try to find the new "WÖK" in Vienna.

I'd like to meet:


Everyone is welcome! But you're very welcome if you love to have a delicious lunch at your favourite canteen. So drop us a line and let us know where to go or let's have a quick and tasty lunch together!

Music:

tricsson
M.Ward
mika vember
liger
landscape izuma
Melissa Laveaux
Adam Green

Books:

Thomas Bernhard: Die Billigesser

Heroes:

Thomas Bernhard
Robert Hochner
Georg Fritsch
Weller
Koller
die Billigesser
WÖK

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My Blog

*** NEW *** P H O T O B L O G: Minoritenstüberl

Ambience: ****Food: *****Service: *****Fun: ***Sex appeal: ***After a long spring-summer-diet we planned to visit the canteen of Erzbischöfliches Palais in St. Stephan, Vienna. A few days before pope ...
Posted by billigesser on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:25:00 PST

*** NEW *** P H O T O B L O G: Berlin tax office Kreuzberg

*** NEW *** P H O T O B L O G: Berlin tax office KreuzbergAmbience:***** Food: ****Service: ***Fun: ****Sex appeal: **on a sunny sunday walk, Weller explored another public canteen.on the left a doene...
Posted by billigesser on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:39:00 PST

*** NEW *** P H O T O B L O G: Berlin, canteen of BVG (berlinpublictransport)

*** NEW *** P H O T O B L O G: Berlin, canteen of BVG (berlinpublictransport) Ambience: ****Food: ***Service: ****Fun: **Sex appeal: Near metrostation Kleistpark, on the top of a speer-building, we ex...
Posted by billigesser on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:53:00 PST

P H O T O B L O G: a very technical lunch at Schroedinger

Ambience: ***Food: ***Service: *****Fun: **Sex appeal: **A few days ago we had a very technical lunch at "Schroedinger", the restaurant of the technical university of vienna. Its very close to "the ma...
Posted by billigesser on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:00:00 PST

P H O T O B L O G: Lunch at the O R F Radiokulturhaus Wien

Ambience: **Food: **Service: ****Fun: ***Sex appeal: *On one of the very last days of 2006 we were invited by a friend to have lunch at the restaurant of the O R F Radiokulturhaus in Vienna. This is t...
Posted by billigesser on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:28:00 PST

P H O T O B L O G: Our Xmas lunch at Musikhochschule

Ambience: ****Food: ***Service: ***Fun: *****Sex appeal: ***On tuesday we've celebrated our first christmas billigesser lunch. and there was only one place to go: again the musikhochschule! it's so ni...
Posted by billigesser on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:25:00 PST

P H O T O B L O G: Mensa NIG - Universität Wien

Ambience: ****Food: ****Service: ***Fun: **Sex appeal: *****from one of our friends we've got the hint to take a closer look to the canteens of the main university. and so we did! this mensa is locate...
Posted by billigesser on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 03:39:00 PST

P H O T O B L O G: Mensa der Musikhochschule, part II

Ambience: *****Food: ***Service: ****Fun: ***Sex appeal: ***during our second visit to this great canteen we focused on the highly interesting architecture in the entrance hall and on the extended dec...
Posted by billigesser on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 03:29:00 PST

P H O T O B L O G: Mensa der Musikhochschule, Seilerstätte 26, Wien 1

Ambience: *****Food: ****Service: ****Fun: ****Sex appeal: ***Once in september, we wanted to go to the cantine of the ministery of finance, but we learned that this schischi canteen isn't for public ...
Posted by billigesser on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:48:00 PST

P H O T O B L O G: zum alten Hofkeller, Schauflergasse, Wien 1

Ambience: **Food: ****Service: **Fun: ****Sex appeal: ***This is our third kanteen visitation: its an old cellar vault down at Hofburg (the former imperial palace). Nowadays not only ministerial-, ho...
Posted by billigesser on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:38:00 PST