We opened the doors of our vegetarian and vegan café & restaurant in 2003. It lies close to our heart to brighten your day with our food and service. Our cooks love their profession. With inventiveness, ability and spices, they create healthy meals which delight you. We also try to make a humble contribution to a world, where men and nature live in peace and harmony.
Therefore we highly value organic and local products as well as fair trade and happy employees. We completely avoid the usage of microwave, induction cooker, additives like yeast extract, monosodium glutamate, aspartame and white sugar.
We use a minimum of frozen and canned food. For allergen information please ask the staff.
On our search for a fulfilling life we discovered meditation and the spirtual path of Sri Chinmoy. Both enriches our life very much.
In case you are interested in meditation, you may want to read the following text about meditation classes in Salzburg as well as around the globe and the spiritual teacher Sri Chinmoy.
We wish you an enjoyable stay in The Heart of Joy,
Piyavadini and Priyavadin Reisecker
Sri Chinmoy
Sri Chinmoy – a Life for Peace
Sri Chinmoy (1931 – 2007) offered over 750 Peace Concerts and initiated the Peace Run. The Run is a global relay that seeks to promote international friendship and understanding. Since its inception, the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run has traversed over 140 nations and touched the lives of millions of people.
Sri Chinmoy tried to make the inner peace, joy and universal love, which he experienced in meditation, accessible to other people, through myriad forms of expression. He was a composer, musician, artist, poet, author and athlete. He created over 140,000 pieces of abstract mystical art, along with almost 16 million drawings of birds (several copies of which are exhibited in our café) symbolising the freedom of the human soul.
Sri Chinmoy considered the inner peace of the individual as the key to a peaceful world.
You can learn how to meditate at Sri Chinmoy Centres in over 300 cities and 50 countries. There, experienced class givers show you a wide rage of concentration, breathing and meditation techniques, so that you can discover the right ones for you. Due to true yoga tradition, the classes are always free of charge.
“Sri Chinmoy was a great man. God is smiling to know the immense good he has accomplished and encouraged in others. In a world of suspicion, hostility and conflict, he worked tirelessly to bring the different faiths together and inspired many to emulate.”
– Desmond Tutu,
October, 2007 after Sri Chinmoy’s passing
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The quote “Your real home is your heart” is taken from one of Sri Chinmoy’s many books: Meditation – Man-Perfection in God-Satisfaction. We sell Sri Chinmoy’s books in German and English, as well as his spiritual music and meditation CDs.
Video: About us
A regular customer and a part of the restaurant team speak about their experiences.