If you want to eat your way around the world, you could buy a few plane tickets. Or you could simply spend some time at the European Street Food festival.
- Vienna stop on an ongoing tour
- Numerous food trucks serving international dishes
- Plenty of seating
- Held outside the Wildstyle & Tattoo fair
- 2025 dates: May 10-11
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- Look for “+ dinner” among the listings
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Street food in Vienna
(Faced with so much choice, we panicked and went fairly conventional: fries, albeit with tofu and chili chicken)
If you ever get bored of Schnitzel and Sachertorte, the European Street Food festival makes an excellent alternative.
(Though we need to have a quiet word if you get bored of Sachertorte.)
Picture a culinary map of the globe converted into numerous food trucks & stalls and you’ve pretty much got it… a chance to sample a wide range of edible delights from around the world.
So you might find flame-grilled salmon next to tofu & bean wraps, Thai curry or Berlin curried sausage, corn dogs or churros, a pulled pork burrito or a chicken fajita, Bratwurst or baked potatoes…
You get the idea: bring your appetite.
The open-air festival takes place outside the Stadthalle event venue, which hosts the Wildstyle and Tattoo fair on the same weekend.
(Poster for an earlier edition)
The Stadthalle is where, for example, many touring musicians, shows, and sporting events make their Vienna stop. Think Celine Dion, Holiday on Ice, KISS, James Blunt, Ricky Gervais, international tennis, the Chippendales…that sort of thing.
On my previous visit, we found plenty of seating, and the scents and smoke of barbecues and ovens wafted across the raised area.
We proved fairly unadventurous, going for simple fries with one of seven available toppings (tofu and chili chicken respectively).
But the wider choice was broad: Mexican wraps and quesadillas, langos with a choice of nice toppings, chana masala and samosas, bison burgers, Dutch mini pancakes, pulled wild boar, bubble waffles and baumkuchen spit cakes to name just some of the alternatives.
(And plenty of vegetarian and vegan options, too.)
Dates, tickets & tips
The 2025 Vienna stop of this street food festival is May 10th and 11th. Provisional opening times are 11am to 10pm (Saturday) and 11am to 8pm (Sunday).
The good news is that “entrance” is always free. (Obviously the food isn’t.)
On any other weekend, you might try the long and colourful aisles of the large Naschmarkt open-air market for food with a strong international flavour to it.
How to get to the Stadthalle
As a major event venue, the Stadthalle is easily reached by public transport and has its own for-fee car parks.
Subway: The outdoor area is a short walk from the Burggasse-Stadthalle station (on the U6 line) and Schweglerstraße station (on the U3 line).
Tram/bus: Trams 6 and 18 also stop at Burggasse-Stadthalle. Another option is the tram 9 (or 49) to Beingasse or Urban-Loritz-Platz. Or bus 48A to Moeringgasse (when driving toward the city centre) and Koppstraße/Thaliastraße (when driving away from the city centre).
Address: Wiener Stadthalle, Roland-Rainer-Platz 1, 1150 Vienna | Website