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. But if they are also useful, unusual or pretty to look at, then you've probably found just the right piece of a distant world to take back home with you.

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 won't go far wrong at the most traditional confectioner’s in the square, Konditorei Munding, where they sell "shingle tiles from the Golden Roof“. Zimt & Zucker sell "golden tiles“ and Schokoladegeschäft Rajsigl offer "Tiroler Edle" high-quality chocolate bars and also Konditorei Pichler chocolates. 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 the Austrian speciality in three sizes – packed in attractive wooden boxes for easy transportation with the Sacher stamp on them.

Fine gingerbread is available throughout the year from Tiroler Wachszieher und Lebzelter in Pfarrgasse, a shop which (as the name suggests) also stocks a wide range of candles and wax decorations. It is well worth a visit to see the attractive, old shop itself and for the wonderful smells of cinnamon, honey and wax alone. Beneath the arcades, Christmas & Easter also spreads festive joy, where Christmas and Easter decorations are sold the whole year round. Just a few steps away from the Tiroler Wachszieher, the ’s Culinarium wine bar offers, besides many other tasty treats, wine, fine distillates, marmalades and “Goldenes Dachl“ champagne – a truly precious drop that not only contains pearls of champagne but gold leaf too.

The best places to buy such typical Tyrolean products as bacon and schnapps are the specialist shops in Stiftgasse. Speckschwemme sells bacon and sausage of exceptional quality and in prodigious varieties, while Spezialitäten in der Stiftgasse also keep a large selection of fine schnapps, wines, oils and other delicacies. Other farm products, such as cheese, honey, fruit juices, bread, fruit and vegetables, are sold at the weekly farmers' markets and every Saturday morning in the "Markthalle”.