If supping on a selection of cocktails in an Imperial city sounds like your kind of thing, you might like to visit the Liquid Market cocktail festival.
- Dozens of bars show off their cocktail skills
- You get to consume the results of their efforts
- Food court & shopping opportunities, too
- 2025 dates: August 28th to 30th
- Book a food or drink experience* in Vienna
- See also:
- Food & drink festivals in Vienna
- Vienna in August
The art of the cocktail
The Liquid Market cocktail festival brings together dozens of bars from Vienna, Austria, and abroad in a mighty cornucopia of cocktail creativity.
That’s an awful lot of mixing, shaking and stirring.
So if you’re keen to taste your way through the colours and flavours of the bartender’s art, this seems like the place to do it. Discussions, street food, and music typically round off proceedings.
(One previous event even had a section devoted to spirits, available to taste and discuss free of additional cocktail ingredients.)
2025 dates, tickets & tips
Given the festival’s success in previous years, Liquid Market has expanded to three days. In fact, such is its popularity that the concept has appeared in other cities, too, such as Berlin and Bratislava.
The 2025 Vienna edition is set for August 28th to 30th, with a return to the METAStadt venue.
You normally buy tickets in advance online through the website.
How to get to Liquid Market
Here’s how to get there by public transport (it’s a bit off the beaten track):
Take the U1 subway to Kagran, then jump on the 25 tram to Erzherzog-Karl-Straße (about 6 stops and ten minutes away). Or take the U2 subway to Hardeggasse and go on three stops (four minutes) on the 25 tram to that Erzherzog-Karl-Straße stop.
Some trains from the main Hauptbahnhof station (look for the S80, for example) also stop at Erzherzog-Karl-Straße station.
Address: Dr. Otto-Neurath-Gasse 3, 1220 Vienna