If supping on a selection of cocktails in the shadow of an imperial palace 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
- Entry price includes all drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic)
- 2020 dates: Aug 6-8
- See also: Rum and gin festivals | Craft beer festival
The art of the cocktail
The Liquid Market cocktail festival brings together dozens of bars from Vienna, Austria and abroad (including the USA) 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.
Now approaching its 5th year, the festival’s success means Liquid Market has expanded to three days. In fact, such is its popularity that it’s spread to other cities in Austria and Germany.
Another innovation that appeared last time out and likely continues in 2020 is an in-festival shop, so you can buy many of the ingredients that contributed to your Viennese cocktail experience.
The event normally occupies 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.
2020 dates and tickets
The 2020 event is planned for Thursday to Saturday, August 6th to 8th. Buy daily tickets or festival passes in advance online, or get a ticket on the door.
If tickets seem on the expensive side, note that the entry price covers all drinks, too: alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails, water, coffee…
How to get to Liquid Market
A subway station and tram stop drop you off on the Volksgarten’s doorstep (assuming the 2020 event goes ahead there).
Subway: take the U3 to Volkstheater and leave the station in the direction of the city centre.
Tram: Take trams 1, 2, D, 71, 46 or 49 to Ring/Volkstheater and just look across the road.
Address: Volksgarten, Burgring, 1010 Vienna | Website