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
- 2023 dates: Aug 24-26
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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. Workshops, tastings, street food, and music typically round off proceedings.
Given the festival’s success in previous years, Liquid Market has expanded to three days. In fact, such is its popularity that it’s moved into other cities, too.
The event previously occupied the grounds of the Volksgarten, a well-known club venue with extensive indoor and outdoor areas, perched somewhat incongruously right in the middle of Habsburg parks and 19th-century grandeur.
In 2020, though, public health measures obliged the organisers to seek a smaller alternative: the event took place in the grounds of the former Sophienspital hospital, with a time slot system for entry.
And in 2021, the event shifted to the Wiener Werkshallen event venue, with over 100 bars taking part. The 2022 event then travelled to the METAStadt venue, where the 2023 event also takes place.
2023 dates, tickets & tips
Dates for 2023 are August 24th to 26th. You can buy tickets in advance online through the website (see below), once available.
How to get to Liquid Market
The event revisits the 2022 location, so here’s how to get to the METAStadt 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 Erzherzog-Karl-Straße.
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 | Event website