Österreich
7 routes · 19 food stops · 2 bike-friendly stays.

Melk to Krems along the Donau: baroque abbey, apricot orchards, and a Heuriger bench at dusk.

A flat, wind-swept circuit of the steppe lake — reeds, fried fish, and cellar lanes at sunset.

Three lakes, two ferries and a cheese dairy on the way to St. Gilgen.

Downhill-all-day valley riding from the Krimml waterfalls to Zell am See.

A flat, fast riverside line out of Innsbruck, with speck, honey and cake stops.

Pumpkin-seed oil country: Graz to the thermal border town of Bad Radkersburg.

A short, steep-sided loop through Riesling terraces around Langenlois.

Pinzgauer Bierkäse with dark bread and a beer, 200 m off the path

A family bakery with shops across the Kamp Valley, including one right in Gobelsburg.

A bakery-café on Schwaz's Andreas-Hofer-Straße, made for a mid-morning pause.

A hotel restaurant in Zell am See's pedestrian zone, with the lake barely thirty metres away.

A village inn in Schönberg am Kamp cooking Austrian classics with regional, sustainably sourced produce.

A lakeside inn on the Wolfgangsee near St. Gilgen, cooking with natural rock salt, organic produce and fish from its own fishery.

A village inn on Mureck's Griesplatz, known locally for the best Backhendl far and wide.

A family inn on the Tauernradweg beside a bathing lake, run for generations by the Altenberger family.

A "Top Heuriger" in Unterloiben, serving homemade specialities in a 300-year-old cellar and a Mediterranean-style courtyard.

A family-run hotel and restaurant in Illmitz since 1927, inside the Neusiedlersee-Seewinkel National Park.

Alpine forest honey and warm honey-bread on the terrace

A family apricot orchard around the Göttweiger Berg, making spirits and jams from very old fruit trees.

An alpine cheese dairy at Oberhofen am Irrsee, in the lake country between Mondsee and Irrsee.

A café directly on Mondsee's lakeside promenade, beside the Meindl boat dock.

Tiroler Speck cut to order in a vaulted salt-town cellar

A family-run Buschenschank and winery in the Sulztal valley, serving farm snacks or a 3- to 7-course menu with wines to match.

One of Austria's best-known wineries, renowned for its Riesling and Grüner Veltliner from the Heiligenstein vineyard.

A winery with guest rooms in Mörbisch's historic Kellergasse, a lane of old wine cellars.

A pumpkin seed oil producer in Wildon, twice winner of the Styrian Pumpkin Seed Oil Championship.

Simple pension on the lake loop with a full workshop corner, twelve charging points and 5:30 breakfast for sunrise rides.

A family winery in Weißenkirchen since 1861, running a Heuriger and eleven guest rooms plus an apartment since 2007.