AUSTRIA. Vienna Airport has unveiled the food & beverage partners that will operate in its new Terminal 3 Southern Expansion, due to open in 2027.
The line-up brings together some of Vienna’s best-known hospitality names. These include Figlmüller, DO & CO, Café Landtmann, Mochi, NENI, Barbaro, Tür 7, AIDA, Veganista and JuiceFactory.
Designed to strengthen the airport’s positioning as a culinary showcase for the Austrian capital, the openings will span traditional Viennese cuisine, coffee house culture, international flavours and health-focused options.
The announcement was made at Vienna City Hall by Vienna Airport Joint CEO and COO Julian Jäger alongside Vienna Mayor Michael Ludwig and Vienna Tourism Board CEO Norbert Kettner. Representatives from the participating restaurant groups were in attendance, together with the airport’s foodservice operating partners SSP Austria and Lagardère Travel Retail Austria.
Jäger said: “Many international airports offer local specialities. However, Vienna Airport is going one step further. It not only offers individual regional dishes in the terminal but Vienna in its entire culinary diversity, featuring a density of top brands which can normally only be found in the city centre.
“Accordingly, Vienna Airport is an authentic culinary business card for Vienna and Austria appealing to travellers from all over the world. This new level of quality is not a coincidence but expresses a clear aspiration.
“The Terminal 3 Southern Expansion and concepts such as these show how we are taking targeted steps towards becoming a 5-star airport. We are very pleased to have attracted several of the best and most renowned food & beverage partners in the city.”
A celebration of Viennese cuisine
The T3 Southern Expansion forms part of Vienna Airport’s wider development programme and will add around 10,000sq m of retail and catering space. Approximately 30 restaurants and shops are planned as part of the extension.
The project is intended to enhance passenger experience through an upgraded commercial mix and stronger sense of place, positioning Vienna Airport’s offer around both local heritage and modern urban dining.
Traditional Viennese restaurant Figlmüller, which claims to offer the “most famous schnitzel in the world”, will open a full-service restaurant in the Southern expansion. Spanning 700sq m, the concept will bring Figlmüller’s signature Wiener Schnitzel to the new terminal area alongside a bar-led food and drink offer.
DO & CO first joined Vienna Airport in 2012 and is now well-established with eight outlets across terminals 1 and 3, including F&B concepts such as Henry, Demel, the hamburger outlet Big Daddy and Juice and The Bowl. In the T3 Southern Expansion, DO & CO will operate classical Viennese coffee house Demel as well as a DO & CO bar and self-service restaurant Henry, covering a combined 522sq m.
Café Landtmann will make its airport debut through Landtmann Daily, located in the new terminal’s central food court. The offer will include classic Austrian dishes and desserts, complemented by a bakery.
Viennese bakery Öfferl will also feature in the food court with a bread and sandwich station.
Vienna confectionery house AIDA – present in terminals 1 and 3 since 2019 – will expand with a new outlet of more than 100sq m serving cakes and pastry specialities.
Modern dining concepts will also feature strongly. Urban fusion concept Mochi will open o.m.k by Mochi in 2027. The innovative Mochi culinary team, led by Tobias Müller, Sandra Jedliczka, Eduard Dimant and Nicole Dimant, has established itself in Vienna in recent years thanks to various ultra-modern restaurant concepts.
NENI will next year introduce the NENI DELI concept offering Levantine-inspired market dishes, salads and fresh grab-and-go options. NENI specialises in urban, modern top-class cuisine with Levantine influences
Italian cuisine will be represented through Barbaro All’aeroporto, a new concept from the Barbaro family, who have been shaping Italian cuisine in Austria for over 40 years. The concept will debut an original Neapolitan pizza offer to Vienna Airport.
Barbaro All’aeroporto takes inspiration from the Michelin-starred Trattoria Martinelli and Vienna’s most popular pizzeria Regina Margherita. The family’s All Natural and Fratelli Barbaro lines will feature alongside an artisanal and authentic Italian menu.
Hidden Viennese bar concept Tür will introduce Viennity by Tür 7 in 2027, offering both alcoholic cocktails and alcohol-free mocktails.
Healthy food concept Veganista will operate a 25sq m store offering vegan ice cream specialities. The two founders, Susanna Paller and Cecilia Havmöller, have been serving their vegan specialities at Vienna Airport since 2022.
The JuiceFactory, established at the airport since 2015, will provide smoothies, juices and bowls from a 25sq m unit in the expansion.
SSP and Lagardère Travel Retail to operate key concepts
SSP Austria and Lagardère Travel Retail Austria will play a central role in delivering the new food & beverage programme.
SSP is already present at the airport with concepts such as Jamie Oliver, Leberkaspepi, Trzesniewski, Dean & David and Anker bakery, as well as the award-winning Wolfgang Puck Kitchen + Bar.
SSP will partner with Figlmüller, Landtmann, Mochi and Tür 7 in the Southern Expansion and will also introduce global coffee chain Starbucks.
Lagardère Travel Retail currently operates Zugvogel, Burger King, AIDA, Haferkater and Costa Coffee as well as the award-winning Café Bieder & Maier at Vienna Airport. In the new terminal Lagardère Travel Retail will support the operations of Neni, Barbaro and AIDA along with Burger King.
Vienna Airport said the T3 Southern Expansion will contribute to its ambition of achieving a Skytrax 5-Star Airport Rating, building on its existing 4-Star status.
The wider development programme includes 70,000sq m of new retail and F&B and space, expanded lounge areas totalling 6,000sq m, enhanced leisure areas, convenient transfer connections between the F, G, C and D gates, as well as 18 new bus gates.
A central security checkpoint equipped with new technologies rounds off the overall concept.
“For millions of passengers, Vienna Airport is the first and last impression of our city,” commented City of Vienna Mayor Michael Ludwig.
“In the future, this impression will also be unmistakably Viennese when it comes to cuisine. The new offering, ranging from the traditional coffee house culture to modern dining concepts, shows how diverse and exquisite the Viennese way of life tastes.
“I congratulate Vienna Airport on this trendsetting project. The new food & beverage outlets are strong ambassadors for our beautiful city. In this way, our culinary identity will also become visible at the place where the world comes to Vienna.” 
