Mozart Madness ; In Vienna, A Celebration Of Hype and Heart

From: The Washington Post | Date: May 12, 1991| Author: | Copyright information

At the Cafe Mozart, just behind Vienna's splendid opera house, the new Japanese owners are offering something called the Mozart Dish, a snack with bits of roast beef, shrimp, ham, smoked salmon, trout, stuffed egg and a lump of cocktail sauce. This dish will cost you $15. It is, in the estimation of Peter Weiser, the director of Vienna's Mozart anniversary year, "terrible."

"You will never eat Mozart again," he promises.

Fine, but maybe you'd like to eat on Mozart. The city's Kunsthaus gift shop offers Mozart porcelain plates. Or you can ski Mozart, thanks to the sharpy who slapped the ...

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