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What happens when you let the Gault & Millau Chef of the Year 2024 and the most charismatic woman loose on the disco floor in the first district of Vienna? Hip-swinging taste explosions.
Grab yourself a ticket to the "Pop Up Gourmet Disco", a riot of culinary treats, creativity, fun and great tracks playing. Behind one of Austria's best restaurants, Taubenkobel, the boys and girls move campus to the 200-year-old disco club in the city's Volksgarten, bringing a new definition to the term "party hungry".
Barbara Eselböck and Alain Weissgerber bring the entire Taubenkobel team to the dance floor, serving up a menu playlist accompanied by great music specially selected to pair rhythm with food and wines.
Chef Alain Weissgerber became a DJ for the Volksgarten and will remix the culinary tracks of the Diskokobel in a menu. The festive service team around Barbara Eselböck will bring atmosphere to the dance floor and put all palates in a festive mood.
Feeling like a VIP? Get a special backstage entrance ticket running from Thursday to Saturday. At this Foodie Disco, there are no queues, and the bouncer is a friendly waiter.
Food for disco divas.
Online: taubenkobel.at, by phone:+ 43 2684 2297 or via e-mail: restaurant@taubenkobel.at
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