Vienna — Purveyors of the Inner City

A ringed walk through what remains of an empire’s shopping list — Loden at the palace gate, cake at the court confectioner, Loos’s marble portal, hats, bespoke lasts, painted porcelain, and glass thin as held breath.

1. 0:00 — Loden-Plankl Michaelerplatz 6
   Start facing the Hofburg gate — boiled wool since 1830; try the cape, feel the century.
2. 0:30 — Demel Kohlmarkt 14
   Thirty steps on: a mélange and the Sachertorte from the feud’s other side — watch the violet-candiers in the window.
3. 1:00 — Knize Graben 13
   Adolf Loos’s 1913 portal — the most beautiful small shopfront in retail; Dietrich’s tailcoats were cut upstairs.
4. 1:25 — Mühlbauer Seilergasse 10
   Two lanes over: fourth-generation blocks — Viennese modernism you can wear in the rain.
5. 1:50 — Rudolf Scheer & Söhne Bräunerstraße 4
   Bespoke since 1816 — ask, politely, to see the Habsburg lasts in the workshop museum.
6. 2:15 — Augarten Spiegelgasse 3
   Porcelain painted by hand since 1718 — the Wiener Rose outlived the empire that commissioned it.
7. 2:45 — J. & L. Lobmeyr Kärntner Straße 26
   Finale among the chandeliers — Edison lit the first electric one here; lift a muslin glass and barely believe it.

Altmann & Kühne’s jewel-box chocolates (Graben 30) and the 1720 linen house Zur Schwäbischen Jungfrau extend the spree; settle the Sachertorte question empirically at Café Sacher, then recant at Demel tomorrow.