HERZERL TOURS PRESENTS Small Groups, Great Quality. For nearly 15 years, Susanne Servin of Herzerl Tours and her overseas partners have combined the spontaneity of independent travel with the efficiency of touring — delivering maximum quality per mile, minute and dollar.	The Viennese Cuisine, which has been around for 1000 years, is a result of the pleasure-loving lifestyle of the Viennese people, who simply love to eat and therefore cook well. Spend a full week watching famous Viennese chefs at work and then trying your hand at it; and indulging in Viennese food and Viennese wines.
Herzerl Tours now offers all tours in three versions: Group tours – 10 people or more; mini groups – 4 to 8 people; and FIT’s – minimum 2 people. Quoted prices are for group tours; contact Herzerl Tours for details.	CULINARY TOUR DATES 2008: November 06– 13, 2008 TOUR PRICE: Tour Price: $2,290.00 per person* in a double room - PLUS AIR FARE! Cancellation Policy please read. The tour price is based on a group of 10 participants; for mini groups or FIT’s contact us at sms@herzerltours.com Herzerl Tours can assist with your airline reservations. (Single supplements are available at $340.00) The price is based on the current exchange rate of the Euro vs. the Dollar (May 2008) i.e. any cost increases caused by a weakening dollar shall have to be passed along to client. Be ahead of the crowd and submerge yourself in this new European food trend: At the famous Viennese Culinary Institute "Am Judenplatz" -at the Haute-Cuisine Restaurant "Drei Husaren" for cooking classes - at the eminent Café Diglas for a pastry demo-and the newly added wine-pairing events at famous Austrian vintners. Spend a full week watching famous Viennese chefs at work, trying your own hand at doing the cooking and indulging in eating food and drinking wines from Vienna. Visit a famous produce market with a chef from the school (and taste some of the wonderful Viennese sausages). Attend morning classes at the leading Viennese Cooking School "Am Judenplatz"; as a special treat attend a class at the world famous haute cuisine Restaurant "Drei Husaren" & enjoy the foods you will create. Attend a pastry demo at the "Café Diglas" watching the pastry chef create an Esterhazy Torte; and as a new feature visit well known vintners to learn about wine pairing and taste white and red Austrian wines. Visit the Imperial Table Museum to see the Habsburg porcelain collection. Dine at well-known Viennese restaurants. And as you cannot go to Vienna without "tasting the culture" you'll visit some of its great palaces. Add a concert of Viennese music and you've got the culinary tour of a lifetime! WE HAVE BEEN FEATURED ON THE FOOD TV NETWORK in "GOURMET GETAWAYS"!!! WE HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED in "COOKING IN PARADISE Culinary Vacations Around the World" by Joel and Lee Naftali.
	What is included in your tour price Accommodations for six nights (D/O), 4 Star hotel, including buffet breakfast Three half-day cooking classes with lunch & beverages, One pastry demonstration & coffee and cake One wine tasting at a famous Viennese vintner A chamber concert with music from Mozart and Strauss, A visit to Vienna's famous produce market Welcome and Farewell dinners including beverages De-Luxe coach for transfers and sightseeing as mentioned Experienced guide/assistant for services outlined) Vienna Card and entrances as mentioned What’s not included: One gourmet dinner at the Sky restaurant Gratuities and personal expenses For more details, booking information, and reservation deadlines, contact Herzerl Tours at 800-684-8488, or mail us at sms@herzerltours.com
	DAILY ITINERARY FOR "A TASTE OF VIENNA" TOUR
Day 1	Departure from an airport in the United States to Vienna. You’ll be in a new “old” world in the morning.
Day 2	Arrive at the Vienna Airport and transfer with private coach to a charming Viennese hotel, located close to the Inner City. Check in and relax in the comfort of your room. In the afternoon you’ll stroll through the historic Inner City of Vienna with an English speaking guide including a visit to the historic produce market “Naschmarkt” (to see where the chefs buy the produce) and the “Schokolade König” (a Viennese chocolate maker’s shop), ending up for an early dinner in Vienna's oldest restaurant,GRIECHENBEISL.
Day 3	After your buffet breakfast at the hotel you will attend your first cooking class at the "DREI HUSAREN" Restaurant in the Inner City, where you will receive instructions on cooking Viennese dishes. You will eat what you have prepared in this elegant Haute Cuisine Restaurant. You can spend your free afternoon in one of Vienna's museums or do some shopping. Dinner on your own.
Day 4	After your buffet breakfast you will attend your second cooking class at the "DREI HUSAREN" Restaurant in the Inner City, where you will again receive instructions on cooking Viennese dishes. You will eat what you have prepared in this elegant Haute Cuisine Restaurant In the afternoon you1ll go on your private sightseeing tour of the City of Vienna with an English-speaking guide. Tour includes the Ringstrasse with all its famous buildings and Schönbrunn Palace. Dinner on own in one of Vienna's charming pubs, elegant restaurants or "Corner Wurst-Stands".
Day 5	After buffet breakfast in the hotel you will go on a special tour with your guide, visiting the Imperial Table Setting Museum to see the Habsburg Porcelain Collection at the Imperial Winter Palace and the Lobmeyer Glass Collection (whose chandeliers are at Metropolitan Opera);following this you will go to the CAFÉ DIGLAS (one of Vienna’s oldest bakery and pastry shop) with your guide where you will watch the pastry chef demonstrating how to make the world-famous Esterhazy Torte; you can have lunch at the Diglas on your own; the cake will be served as dessert with coffee after your lunch . You can use your knowledge of Vienna and stroll around or shop in one of the wonderful shops you have passed on your walking tour. For dinner we suggest the SKY Restaurant on top of a building in the Inner City with a grand view and excellent food (optional).
Day 6	After buffet breakfast there is your final cooking class at the world-renown Culinary Institute "AM JUDENPLATZ" (this was the location where Herzerl Tours brought the Food Network channel to tape the cooking show with Robin Leach and Sally-Jessica Raphael) . Again, you will learn from a master chef to prepare some of the well-known Viennese dishes and then partake of what you have prepared for lunch. Afternoon is free for more explorations of Vienna. We suggest an early dinner, which is on your own. In the evening you will attend a chamber concert with music by Mozart and Strauss at one of Vienna's Palaces, Palais Auersperg.
Day 7	This is your last day in Vienna and you have a free morning – you can take the occasion and attend the Spanish riding School rehearsal or visit the famous catacombs where the Habsburg emperors lay in their caskets. In the afternoon you will set out with your guide by public transportation (like a native) across the Danube to a vintner in Stammersdorf (still part of Vienna). There you will taste whites and reds grown on the surrounding hills from Wieninger (a family growing wines in Vienna for hundred years). And then you will experience another Viennese tradition – the Heuriger – where you will eat and drink and listen to Viennese music – also at Wieninger’s. You return by public transportation to your hotel.
Day 8	AAfter your last buffet breakfast you will transfer from the hotel to Vienna airport in private coach with English speaking assistant for your flight back to the USA. Every participant receives a certificate from: Am Judenplatz/Café Diglas/Drei Husaren. Tour prices are based on exchange rate at the time of publication and may be changed if necessary.
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In preparation for your tour, you may wish to cook these authentic recipes from the Culinary School in Vienna. With this meal, you may enjoy the wines chosen by the Austrian Director of "The Tavern on the Green" that complement this menu.