
A cocktail lounge on Liechtensteinstrasse in the ninth district, open from six every evening. A long list and a room that fills late, away from the tourist circuit of the first district.

Heinz Kaiser's bar on Salzgries in the first district, staged as an apothecary and worked like one: infusions, tinctures and a long shelf of house preparations behind a counter that treats a drink as something compounded rather than poured. Open Tuesday to Saturday from five.
Classic and contemporary cocktails, Sardinian bar food and a record collection, on the Rossauer Laende by the Danube canal. The house describes itself as real cocktails and no nonsense, and the short hours back that up: Wednesday and Thursday from five, Friday and Saturday from six.
The bar of the Ritz-Carlton on the Schubertring, which builds its menus as themed sets rather than lists: one recent card pairs each cocktail with a piece of music, so the drink is heard as well as tasted. Open late, on the Ringstrasse side of the first district.
A cocktail bar in Vienna's old town, named after the two owners' grandfathers, blending baroque touches with modern design. The program centers on contemporary drinks built with modern culinary techniques alongside twisted classics, including espuma cocktails and signatures made with Styrian ingredients.
The bar of the Park Hyatt Vienna, in the banking hall of a former headquarters on Bognergasse, where the marble and the vault doors were kept. It runs as a brasserie and bar together, and the room does most of the talking.
A speakeasy in the fifteenth district, hidden away as a retreat rather than a destination, where the drinks are built with some ceremony. Reservation is the sensible approach.
Set in an 18th-century clergy house in the backstreets of central Vienna, pairing true classics with bolder house creations to a hip-hop and '80s soundtrack. A weekly rotating Mini of the Week is served without revealing its ingredients in advance. The team also runs a second venue, Combo Bar, in the 2nd district.
A speakeasy-style boutique bar in Vienna's 8th district, entered by ringing the doorbell of an unmarked door. There is no fixed menu; bartenders build personalised cocktails around each guest's preferences in a dark, mid-century living-room setting.
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