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 & other activities, too
- 2026 dates: August 27th to 29th
- 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. Presentations, 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.)
2026 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 previous Viennese event featured over 150 bars & brands.
The 2026 Vienna edition is set for August 27th to 29th, with a return to the Otto Wagner Areal in the 14th district. If there, take the time to walk up to the Kirche am Steinhof Jugendstil church (you won’t regret it).
You can buy tickets in advance online through the website. Drinks are normally included in the price.
How to get to Liquid Market
Two buses serve the Areal: the 47A and the 48A (the relevant stop is called, rather nicely, Otto-Wagner-Areal).
The 47A leaves, for example, from Unter St. Veit U4 subway station. The 48A leaves, for example, from the Volkstheater and Ottakring stations on the U3 subway line or from the Thaliastraße station on the U6 line.
Address: Baumgartner Höhe 1, 1140 Vienna