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 The Grand Masala
  10. spicy Indian Cuisine
  11. spicy Tandoori Junction
  12. spicy DS Arjuna
  13. spicy Taj
  14. spicy Daily Spice
  15. spicy Tawa
  16. spicy Safran
  17. spicy Little India
  18. spicy Jaipur Palace
  19. spicy Mach ma Curry
  20. spicy Bella Santi
  21. spicy Nirvana
  22. spicy Koh-i-noor
  23. spicy Satraj
  24. spicy Curry-Insel
  25. spicy Tulsi
  26. spicy Taste of India by Jhand & Nandha
  27. spicy Zum Moghulhof
  28. spicy Indus
  29. somewhat spicy Spice of India
  30. somewhat spicy Leopoldstädter Deewan
  31. somewhat spicy Rasoi
  32. somewhat spicy Sri Nataraja
  33. somewhat spicy Restaurant am Heuberg
  34. barely spicy Rani
  35. barely spicy India Gate
  36. barely spicy Indien Village
  37. 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.