The hotel's concierge, Uwe Kotzendorfer, is selling "Sacher Torte", as the rich delicacy is known, on a drive-in stand just across the road from Vienna's prestigious State Opera house.

HAVING YOUR CAKE Concierge Uwe Kotzendorfer waits at the entrance of the Hotel Sacher in Vienna for customers driving by for a box or two of the hotel’s world-famous chocolate, Sacher Torte ...

Forty-four years later, Sacher's son, Eduard, opened the hotel in Vienna's first district. But it was really only after Eduard's death in 1892 that the hotel enjoyed its glamorous heyday under the ...