The Heat Chart

In Vienna, it is fairly difficult to find an Indian restaurant that serves spicy food. Unless you are a regular customer or know the waiter personally, it is nearly impossible to get a hot curry, no matter what the menu says.

If you want to test your luck, order a Madras or Vindaloo curry, but the spiciness varies from restaurant to restaurant. You will not find a Chicken Phall anywhere.

The chart

This is a listing of restaurants ordered by the spiciness of a curry ordered explicitly as "very spicy". (The list does NOT reflect the average or general spiciness of the food, so you can order a mild curry even if the restaurant has received 6 chilies in this list.)

  1. painfully spicy Guru
  2. extremely spicy Taste of India Marxergasse
  3. very spicy Great Amritsar
  4. very spicy Bollyfood
  5. very spicy Tiffin
  6. very spicy Prosi Indian Restaurant
  7. very spicy Nam Nam
  8. very spicy Bombay
  9. spicy Indian Cuisine
  10. spicy Tandoori Junction
  11. spicy DS Arjuna
  12. spicy Taj
  13. spicy Daily Spice
  14. spicy Tawa
  15. spicy Safran
  16. spicy Little India
  17. spicy Jaipur Palace
  18. spicy Mach ma Curry
  19. spicy Bella Santi
  20. spicy Nirvana
  21. spicy Koh-i-noor
  22. spicy Satraj
  23. spicy Curry-Insel
  24. spicy Tulsi
  25. spicy Taste of India by Jhand & Nandha
  26. spicy Zum Moghulhof
  27. spicy Indus
  28. somewhat spicy Spice of India
  29. somewhat spicy Leopoldstädter Deewan
  30. somewhat spicy Rasoi
  31. somewhat spicy Sri Nataraja
  32. somewhat spicy Restaurant am Heuberg
  33. barely spicy Rani
  34. barely spicy India Gate
  35. barely spicy Indien Village
  36. mild Meidlinger Deewan

N.B.: This listing is complete. It does not contain restaurants that I have not yet visited or in which I did not or could not order a "very spicy" dish.