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If Austria conjures up hearty fare in wood-panelled restaurants with scarlet geraniums spilling over from every balcony, Oniriq, Innsbruck's most stylish new restaurant, is going to come as a bit of a shock. All pale wood, speckled concrete and the most contemporary kitchen almost in the middle of the diners, it's tiny (seven tables) and has a menu of startling ingenuity. The staff is on the tiny side too – the chef, Udo Herrmann, his sous-chef and sommelier-cum-waiter are pretty much it and take turns in bringing the food to the table and explaining all to the diners (in impeccable English as well as German). There are two tasting menus (one vegetarian, one fish and meat) and there's no a la carte, though you can choose the number of courses (three or seven) and wine pairings (5 glasses or 7). Now that may sound like an awful lot of food, not to say wine, but the courses are sometimes the size of a thumbnail and wine in Austria comes in the smallest measures. The firs

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