Neo-Italian restaurant Arici serves trippa fritta and spaghetti all'assassina

Arici is not the first restaurant to occupy the former premises of a stationery store in Josefstadt. The Art Deco restaurant from 1927 was converted into "Das kleine Paradies", which in turn was replaced by "Creo". Now Simon Steiner, formerly of Dogenhof, Praterwirt and Heuer am Karlsplatz, and Mila Arici, a Viennese by choice, have opened Arici here. Arici herself says that she "slipped into gastronomy" after working as a make-up artist in Paris for a long time, then assisted in the kitchen at a restaurant on Lake Wörthersee and was responsible for several catering events in Vienna.