TAUBENKOBEL CREATES GRAND POP UP IN EMPTY VIENNA INDUSTRIAL HALL

Austrian power couple Barbara Eselböck and Alain Weissgerber of famed leisure oasis Taubenkobel in Burgenland create yet another pop up wonder and hit Vienna this winter under the name “Lokvogel”.

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Beloved amongst global diners for the past 30 years, the team from Taubenkobel will again showcase their visionary culinary talents. The setting; behind brick walls, over a century old, an empty industrial hall will be turned into a one-of-a-kind restaurant in just three months for a five week dining experience.

Located in the old Remise on Wolfganggasse in Vienna’s 12th Meidling district.

From 16 November through 23 December 2018 – the creative duo returns to Vienna from their rural Taubenkobel for a third year. Alain Weissgerber‘s local yet simultaneously world cuisine will take guests on a culinary journey of delights, all combined with the sparkling direction of Barbara Eselböck.

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The culinary endeavour also involves a special art project called “It’s about the sausage #FRIEDEN”. The object in the form of a larger-than-life peace dove that clings to the proverbial sausage – instead of an olive branch – will float above the heads of the guests.

Already the talk of town, this limited event is geared for global diners previously having pilgrimed to Taubenkobel’s immensely creative pop projects.

2017 saw “Brieftaubenkobel”, a dining experience in the grand state rooms of Post Palais that brought the dazzling Belle Époque back to life in the Austrian capital. A pop up project so original that it couldn’t be remade even if tried.

Luckily Taubenkobel has more ideas in the pot. This year “Lokvogel”.

What: “Lokvogel” by Taubenkobel • Date: 16 November to 23 December 2018 • Time: From 6:00 pm • Location: Wolfganggasse depot, Eichenstraße 2, Vienna.

Reservations: +43 2684 2297 or lokvogel@taubenkobel.com

“Lokvogel” can also be booked for exclusive events upon request. For more information and press photos, please visit www.lokvogel.at

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ABOUT TAUBENKOBEL

Spending time with Barbara and Alain, the co-owners of the family-run hotel and restaurant Taubenkobel, Austria, one easily becomes completely absorbed by their warmth and palpable veracity. You instantly feel a home.

They talk earnestly about their humble beginnings, close family relationships, about living off the land and the desire to pass on their reverence for what the region of Pannonia has to offer, “without compromise”.

They are everything but pretentious or cliché and they haven’t constructed some infallible business model for the ‘most coveted dining experience’. What they are passing onto their guests, friends and family is something truly authentic, based on a philosophy of unity and sustainability.

Once the cheapest house in Burgenland, the seventh largest of Austria’s nine states, Taubenkobel now boasts 12 luxurious, unique guest rooms, an exquisite restaurant and the more casual “Greisslerei” next door, beautiful gardens and a small lake, transformed to be used as a natural swimming pool.

Opened 35 years ago by Barbara’s parents Walter and Eveline Eselböck, the place has quite literally grown and developed with the family, each generation bringing a new lease of life into what was simply a one room restaurant and kitchen. You feel how the family has built every stone themselves ever since.

This vision is delicately woven into every aspect of the association – from Alain’s eight o’clock forage for wild herbs to Walter’s well thought out interior design of each individual guest room – they have created an experience that is so personal and geographically specific, one can’t help but fall in love with it.

Widely acclaimed amongst culinary opinion makers, the restaurant at Taubenkobel was awarded with two Michelin stars up until the guide unfortunately stopped rating in Austria outside Vienna and Salzburg.

Rated 18/20 by Gault and Millau, a very high rating, with the highest possible score of 20 having only ever been given twice in the guide’s fifty years.

Add to this accolade 5* in A la Carte as well as 96 points of 100 in Falstaff – two of the German-speaking countries most respected culinary publications. Taubenkobel was picked amongst Forbes’ “Coolest Places to Eat” in 2016.

Taubenkobel is where the Eselböck-Weissgerber family eat, sleep and work – this is where they have grown up and are bringing their children up.

Each element of Taubenkobel complements the other.

The image of the lusciously green gardens is intensified by the distinct, warm smell flowing out of the kitchen, whilst the sometimes surprising, yet mouthwatering ingredients take you off on a tour of the local area and into the farms supported by the hosts.

This continuous, harmonious cycle of sustainability, familiar ties and regional perspective is exactly what has always, and continues to, define Taubenkobel as one of the best restaurants in Central Europe.

In case of interest or/and press, please contact Kristian Brask Thomsen at:

ambassador@bon-vivant.dk

Bon Vivant Communications is a culinary embassy representing star chefs and restaurants, chateaux and high-end wineries as well as working close together with various luxury hotels, gourmets festivals and bespoke concierges services.

The diplomacy speaks to a strong network of 600 journalists, bloggers and writers, as well as 5000+ global diners around the world.

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