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 Tiffin
  4. very spicy Prosi Indian Restaurant
  5. very spicy Nam Nam
  6. very spicy Bombay
  7. very spicy Demi-Tass
  8. spicy DS Arjuna
  9. spicy Taj
  10. spicy Daily Spice
  11. spicy Tawa
  12. spicy Safran
  13. spicy Little India
  14. spicy Jaipur Palace
  15. spicy Mach ma Curry
  16. spicy Nirvana
  17. spicy Koh-i-noor
  18. spicy Satraj
  19. spicy Curry-Insel
  20. spicy Tulsi
  21. spicy Taste of India by Jhand & Nandha
  22. spicy Zum Moghulhof
  23. spicy Indus
  24. somewhat spicy Spice of India
  25. somewhat spicy Leopoldstädter Deewan
  26. somewhat spicy Rasoi
  27. somewhat spicy Curry n Masala
  28. somewhat spicy Sri Nataraja
  29. somewhat spicy Restaurant am Heuberg
  30. barely spicy Rani
  31. barely spicy India Gate
  32. barely spicy Indien Village
  33. 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.