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The 9 Best Bars in Vienna

Vienna's bars hide behind doorbells and inside old buildings, and five of these nine sit in the 1st district. The best bars in Vienna start on Schönlaterngasse at Truth & Dare, in an 18th-century clergy house, which plays hip-hop and 1980s music, keeps its weekly mini cocktail a secret until it is ordered, and won Bar of the Year Austria at the Mixology Bar Awards three years running, 2023 to 2025. Tür 7 in Josefstadt, Bar of the Year Austria in 2020, opens to a doorbell and has no menu: you describe what you like. Josef Cocktail Bar on Sterngasse, named after its owners' grandfathers, stays open until 3am every night and loves its espumas, and Dino's Apothecary Bar on Salzgries is Heinz Kaiser's room. The Bank Bar fills a former banking hall under a glass roof, and The Chapel hides behind the restaurant Let's Be Frank in the 15th district. Tür 7 takes reservations only, so book ahead. These are the nine we would start with.

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  1. Truth & Dare
    MIXOLOGY AWARDSCocktail Bar

    Truth & Dare

    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.

    Schönlaterngasse 4, 1010Mon-Sat 18:00-02:00; Sun 18:00-01:00
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  2. Tür 7
    MIXOLOGY AWARDSSpeakeasy

    Tür 7

    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 personalized cocktails around each guest's preferences in a dark, mid-century living-room setting.

    Buchfeldgasse 7, 1080
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  3. The Sign Lounge
    MIXOLOGY AWARDSCocktail Bar

    The Sign Lounge

    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.

    Liechtensteinstrasse 104-106, 1090 ViennaTue - Sun 18-2 Mon closed
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  4. Dino's Apothecary Bar
    MIXOLOGY AWARDSCocktail Bar

    Dino's Apothecary Bar

    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.

    Salzgries 19, 1010 ViennaThu - Thurs 17:00 to 02:00 Fri, Sat 17:00 to 03:00 Sun: 20:00 to 00:00am
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  5. Bar Pani
    Cocktail Bar

    Bar Pani

    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.

    Rossauer Laende 41, 1090 Vienna
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  1. D-Bar
    Hotel Bar

    D-Bar

    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.

    Schubertring 5-7, 1010 Vienna
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  2. Josef Cocktail Bar
    Cocktail Bar

    Josef Cocktail Bar

    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.

    Sterngasse 1, 1010Daily 18:00-03:00
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  3. The Bank Bar
    Hotel Bar

    The Bank Bar

    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.

    Bognergasse 4, 1010 Vienna
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  4. The Chapel
    Speakeasy

    The Chapel

    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.

    Robert-Hamerling-Gasse 18/5, 1150 Vienna
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