Shopping in the Old Town
Tasty tiles, strong schnapps and Tyrolean bacon
Culinary souvenirs from Innsbruck – not only for the sweet tooth. It could be a small memento of a great holiday or a gift for loved ones back home – souvenirs are to travel what mountains are to the Tyrol.
Tempting treats for your gourmet friends back home
Sweet, savoury or ‘spirited’: Culinary souvenirs from Innsbruck
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Sometimes souvenirs just have to taste good, and in this respect, you'll quickly find what you want in Innsbruck. If you're looking for something to give to someone with a sweet tooth, then you should head for Konditorei Munding, the most traditional confectioner’s in town, for some ‘Golden Roof shingles’. Just as delicious are ‘golden tiles’ from Zimt & Zucker, while Rajsigl stocks ‘Tiroler Edle’ bars as well as Konditorei Pichler’s high-quality chocolate products. You don’t have to go all the way to Vienna to treat your friends and acquaintances to an original Sachertorte, either: Café Sacher offers this Austrian speciality in three sizes, packed in attractive wooden boxes carrying the Sacher logo.
Some of the sweetest temptations are on offer at Tiroler Bienenladen, where in addition to the large variety of Tyrolean honeys (like for example alpine rose honey) you can find gingerbread with honey, liqueur and schnaps, as well as beeswax candles and exquisite, honey based natural cosmetics. Fine gingerbread is also available throughout the year from Tiroler Wachszieher und Lebzelter in Pfarrgasse, a shop which (as the name suggests) stocks a wide range of candles and wax decorations. It is well worth a visit, even if it’s just to admire the attractive, old premises and smell the wonderful aromas of cinnamon, honey and wax. Beneath the arcades, Christmas & Easter also spreads festive joy, selling Christmas and Easter decorations the whole year round.
Just a few steps away from the Tiroler Wachszieher, the ’s Culinarium wine bar of-fers, besides many other tasty treats, wine, fine distillates, jams and such unusual delicacies as tomato vinegar. Maybe a ‘Tyrolean single malt’ – a full, smooth whisky – or schnaps from red Williams pears, distilled in the Eastern part of the Tyrol, is the perfect souvenir for a special someone? Although you may prefer ‘Goldenes Dachl’ champagne – a truly precious drop that contains not only champagne bubbles, but gold leaf, too!
All kinds of other things that come in bottles are available at vom Fass, in Anichstrasse. Here wines, liqueurs, fine distillates, sherry and aromatic oil and vinegar varieties stored in large glass demijohns and earthenware jars that can be sampled, taken home in decorative glass bottles - and make a perfect gift.
But let’s return to the wines: Invinum, just opposite Ottoburg, is a great place to ex-perience Austrian wine culture as they carry Austrian wines only, ranging from internationally renowned, top vineyards to up-and-coming young wine growers. It also serves popular ‘Heurigen’ delicacies like bread and drippings or Liptauer cheese.
A great place to shop for Tyrolean bacon, truly delicious with proper brown bread and red wine is the specialist shop Speckschwemme in Stiftgasse which sells bacon and sausage of exceptional quality and in prodigious variety. Delicatessen Hörtnagl on Burggraben has its own butchery and offers besides speck, award-winning sausages and specialty meats, just about everything a gourmet could desire. Tyrolean farm produce such as cheese, honey, fruit juices, bread, fruit and vegetables are sold at the weekly farmers' markets – as well as every Saturday morning in the ‘Markthalle’.