My wife and I chose the Austrian Canadian Cultural Centre for dinner Sunday evening. The Centre also now doubles as the Danish Canadian Club (we've been DCC members for years). Ambiance was fun as several Austrian Canadians were politely cheering on Austria in a FIFA match. We decided on Austrian cuisine for the evening, not Danish. Service was prompt and friendly. We started with a soft pretzel with sausage (ok it was a Danish pork sausage) and both were fabulous. My wife chose as main course hunter style schnitzel with vegetables and egg spaetzl. I tried the braised beef roulade with spaetzl and red cabbage. OMG - both were amazing, and I'm not a cabbage fan. We agreed the braised beef was best . For dessert we shared my wife's choice, a traditional layered chocolate cake, and my choice raspberry dream composed of vanilla ice cream, whipped cream and warmed raspberries with a raspberry schnapps. ONE OF THE BEST MEALS WE'VE EXPERIENCED IN AGES! read more

We arrived Saturday for a evening dinner, since we haven't been here in quite some time. The thought was to get some good German Food, for our date night. Ordered food and beer in the lounge part of the Austrian Canadian Club. Sat there for 2 hours for poor service and over priced Food that came out cold. We ordered chicken schnitzel with spatzal 2 small cauliflower florettes for vegetables. Hubby ordered a Kalbsrahmschnitzel and spatzal with a good amount of veggies. Both came with a small variety salad to start with a few beers. The one star is for the salad the was small but great flavour! The Kalbsrahmschnitzel tasted a little off, Chicken Schnitzel was tender but cold. We made our second drink order that never came, we finally had to ask another server where our drink order was. Then our server finally brought them out a half an hour later. And another 45 minutes to get our bill. We left still hungry. The lounge is small with limited tables and seating. -Inside was run down European pictures and knickknacks all around. -plenty of parking Will not be returning due to the poor quality food and service. This place as really gone down hill over the years. read more

Went there for lunch today and really enjoyed the location and the food. Started with a liver dumpling soup, followed by some meatloaf topped with an egg and a side of potato salad. Surely wasn't hungry anymore at this point, but I just had to try the veal schnitzel with mushroom cream sauce and spätzle. Just what the doctor ordered!! Very awesome place and I regret not having come here many many years before today. I WILL be back at this location!!! read more

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My coworker and I went diverged from our usual Vietnamese fare to give the Austrian club a try. I heard good things about it before and all the rumors were true! You can sit in the lounge or the dining room. The dining room has a lot of families and the lounge has an older crowd. The Austrian club does things kind of the old fashion way where they actually give you a multi course meal along with free bread basket. Like WHO DOES THAT THESE DAYS BESIDES OLIVE GARDEN? My coworker ordered the bratwurst plate and I got roasted pork hock, which was the special for the day and only comes out twice a month. My entree also came with a hearty potato chowder. My food was plated to the edges and it was all so delicious. I loved the pan fried scalloped potatoes; the meat was tender and juicy and you could even get some mustard on the side for dipping. I saw some diners get a salad on the side when they ordered the schnitzel, so I might try that next time. In this day and age where prices are skyrocketing towards infinity, it's difficult to find a restaurant that gives you value for your money. The Austrian club does it brilliantly while not shying away from quality. The bill came just shy of $40 and it was totally worth it. I highly recommend you give this place a try. It's a great cultural experience and a place to fill your tummy with amazing food. read more

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-----Food----- Real authentic Austrian/German food. Amazing! Everything good you can think of that your parents in Germany/Hungary/Austria would cook is on this menu. -----Cosmetics----- From the outside doesn't look like there is anything there - but once you get inside - you know you're in the right place. -----Service----- Feels like mom and dad are serving you. read more

The Austrian man serving us in the Austrian Canadian Cultural Centre is the friendliest man I know! Well, besides me anyway. Forewarning, if you take offense to stuffed animal heads lining the wall, you may want to avoid the lounge. Chandeliers were made out of antlers. I have no idea if they were real or not, but it certainly set the tone for a carnivorous kind of space! If you're in the restaurant bit, you've got your choices of some vegetarian options, like a vegetarian quesadilla with ground tofu, cheese spatzle, vegetarian schnitzel and ravioli florentine. Or entrees include a variety of seafoods and steak and other meat dishes. We, however, were in the lounge. The evening menu in the lounge is where it's at! Schnitzel, wurst, goulash, liver dumpling soup (if you don't like liver, you won't like the liver dumpling soup. Trust me). I opted for the Fiaker Goulash with Tyrolean dumpling for $13.95. Don't ask me exactly what was in it. I don't know. All I know is a plate filled with gravy, some kind of sausage and other meat all mixed in with a potato-y scoop on the side that I assume was the dumpling showed up in front of me. And it was delicious. Is it wrong that I licked my bowl? You won't be hungry by the end, but you will want dessert! I promise you will. The sacher torte is good, but the Kaiserschmarrn (royal pancakes) are so where it's at. Imagine freshly made fluffy pancakes all crumbled up into a delicious hot mess with strawberry syrup to spread all over them. *drool*. That's the lounge. There's also a 300 seater banquet hall complete with dance floor in the same building. Really well kept (and no animal heads on the walls that I could see). It would make a great facility for just about any event! read more

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Always friendly with good service, as someone already said, truly a hidden gem. My 2nd visit comprised trying the daily lunch special. For $12.45 CAD, cream of mushroom soup (perfectly flavoured and heated), thick boneless pork chop with a pepper based zigeuner sauce, a bread based Tyrolean dumpling, and fresh cooked vegetable medley. I have posted a picture this meal and a portion of their menu. I can vouch that the chicken schnitzel is so so good. So far, the portions are exactly the right size except I am always too full for dessert so my next trip will focus on dessert. The location is a little non-descript and hard to find if you are not looking but there are friendly people in the centre who will direct you to the restaurant. If memory serves, it has limited hours and unannounced closings. But, if you venture for lunch, you should be golden. Highly recommended for locals and tourists! read more

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Immediately after dinner I phoned my Austrian parents and told them how upset I was with them for not bringing me here as a child. We had the Wiener Schnitzel, gemischter Salat & Bratkartoffeln as well as the Kalbsrahmschnitzel and both were absolutely amazing. I have has Schnitzel and Spätzle numerous times around the city and nothing compares I promise you. For desert we has the Apfelstrudel and Sacher Torte. I would come back and order the same dishes over and over. As we were there on a Thursday evening it was the Lounge that was open - the decor feels like I am back in the Alps, very true to style. This is the best Austrian food you will find outside of Europe. I will be back soon and often. read more

Large portions in a big meal, and for its type of food, to us 3.5 stars. We have been so smitten with southern European and Asian foods, that, quite frankly, we are bored by this kind of cuisine, and in a personally biased way would only rate this 2 stars. Ordered the special, Smoked Pork Hock, with pan-fried quasi-scalloped potatoes, creamy potato soup, and for my wife, Pork Cutlets with dull-tasting mushrooms and gravy, splatzke that we mostly left untouched, over-cooked cauliflower and broccoli, and an accompanying small veg dish with potato salad, pickled cukes and tomatoes, and for both of us some rolls that are standard for such dishes. The salad combo was the high point of the meal. Go figure... Even though we were far from thrilled, it was okay for its style. Won't ever consider going back, as just too many good asian restaurants in the city and area. But good to experiment... Attractive interior with northern European music. Apparently it's busiest on Wednesdays and Fridays when local Austrians, Germans, Swiss, Dutch and others descend in large flocks on their club. Check it out if you like northeastern Euro food. read more

Ive been here a few times for family events, the only reason they dont get 5 stars is cause something ALWAYS goes wrong with my food. No one elses, just mine. But the service is on point, they always treat my grandparents parents and me super well, and they have a beer called Wunderbeer (or something like that) and it is OFF THE CHAIN. Its so good I dont even know if "off the chain" is acceptable in most circles to describe a tasty beverage and I am still going to use it. #sticktoyourguns read more

The restaurants here have my favourite "lunch with the guys" in Calgary. Wienerschnitzel with spaetzle - mmmm! Amazing homemade bratwurst on premises as well. Amazing and fresh imported beer selection. For too long, the Austrian Canadian Club has been one of the best-kept lunch secrets in Calgary (even though it is filled to bursting every day for lunch), it is worth the commute from downtown! read more

Comfort food to the extreme! Very reasonable prices. The decor makes me feel like I've stepped into an Austrian eatery. The staff is lovely and pleasant. The food is AMAZING... try the scalloped potatoes for sure! Parking is free and plentiful except tends to get busy at lunch hour. We booked this place for our wedding reception in July 2010. Our needs were as follows, and they were met exceptionally well. - Amazing European food - Open bar allowance - Good price - "Built in" decor so we didn't have to spend a lot on decorating - Free parking - Big dance floor Our ceremony was at a church earlier in the day so we did not require the hall for that part of our wedding, although I'm sure it can be done. The ladies are very open to suggestions. We did not require a picturesque garden or "nature" setting, so if you are looking for an indoor/outdoor sort of wedding reception idea then this place is not for you; the Austrian Club has a grand view of Deerfoot Trail but nothing as far as a courtyard or garden goes. Our wedding guests still talk about how fantastic the food was at our wedding; that was probably the most important thing for us to be able to offer to our wonderful guests! read more

My favorite meal here is always the authentic wiener schnitzel. I recommend this restaurant 100%

My husband and I booked our wedding reception at the Austrian Canadian Cultural Centre with no real regrets. PROS: We had quite a decoration vision, with unique flair and our wishes were truly heard. The staff went above and beyond in catering to our needs by agreeing that we set-up decorations in advance, come in to rehearse earlier that week, meet and plan out the floor plan and details when needed over a couple-month period of time. They also honoured diet restrictions as noted well ahead of time for a few of our guests. The hors-d'oeuvres, appetizers, dinner and dessert were delicious, warm, colourful, plus at a very affordable price. Our guests comments were overwhelmingly positive when it came to the food! Their in-person welcome is warm, always greeting us with cheer. They thought of all these important details on the day of, making our event one that guests will forever fondly remember. CONS: Only one main con. The ticket per alcoholic beverage and half ticket per soft drink option did not work. We set it up so that each guest got a couple drinks on us. When decorating the day before, we placed the tickets under each place setting. In the end our count did not add up to the venue's. In fact, we never got clarity on how many alcoholic beverages were ordered by our guests with tickets and how many soft drinks were ordered by our guests with half tickets. Weeks later we found over 40 unused tickets; one guest was reportedly collecting them ... He was 8 years old and thought it was a fun collection game!!! Yet, it was too late. By then we had already paid. Our advice: bring your own beverages, or opt for open bar for a time, or have guests buy their own drinks. In summary, feel confident about receiving good service, great food and a memorable event at the Austrian Canadian Cultural Centre. Just do not go for a ticket system for drinks, as you may not ever know how many drinks your guests truly ordered. read more

The Austrian Club has amazing food at very reasonable prices. If you like fancy nouvelle cuisine on a huge plate artistically decorated with a with smears of sauce and garnished with green stuff but only a few morsels of food - then don't go there. However if you like a plate filled with delicious European style home cooking that will satisfy the biggest hunger and not mutilate your finances - then by all means come on down for delicious wiener schnitzel, pork hocks, sausages, rouladen, dumplings, apple strudel and so much more. The knowledgeable and friendly staff in the restaurant or lounge are more than happy to explain menu items you may not be familiar with and make suggestions. They will even recommend an imported Austrian/German beer to pair with you're entree selection. If you like satisfying home style cooking combined with with European flair and ambience, you cannot go wrong here. Your tummy will thank you. read more